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GSoC 2017
The Pylons Project encompasses all projects hosted at https://github.com/Pylons including the Pyramid web framework, webob WSGI request/response objects, the waitress WSGI server and the colander validation library.
Please have a look at the basic contributing guidelines for the project.
To chat with the Pylons Project mentors, please use the [email protected] mailing list, visible at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pylons-discuss or contact us directly in the #pyramid channel on freenode.net.
- Bert JW Regeer (https://github.com/bertjwregeer, x58 on
#pyramid) - Michael Merickel (https://github.com/mmerickel, raydeo on
#pyramid) - Nejc Zupan (https://github.com/zupo, zupo on
#pyramid) - Steve Piercy (https://github.com/stevepiercy, stevepiercy on
#pyramid)
All projects require strong communication and Python programming skills.
Design a new theme in Sphinx for generating documentation of all Pylons Project projects.
Resources:
- See background in New Theme Requests and Style Guide Proposal.
Difficulty: easy
Required Skills:
- Restructured Text / Sphinx
- Python
- HTML / CSS
- Web design
Mentors:
- Steve Piercy
Add support to colander for serializing to native types instead of strings. Add examples of using YAML and JSON content with colander. Update deform to work with the new types.
Resources:
Difficulty: medium
Required skills:
- Python
- HTML forms
Mentors:
- Michael Merickel
Write a better loading system for configuration to replace PasteDeploy / ini files. This project is already underway but needs a motivated student to work through details and collaborate on a solution to loading arbitrary file formats into arbitrary applications.
Resources:
Difficulty: hard
Required skills:
- Python
- pkg_resources entry points
- YAML, INI, JSON file formats
Mentors:
- Michael Merickel
Add HTTP2 and SSL support to waitress. This involves vetting and incorporating libraries to implement HTTP2 and HTTPS support inside the waitress WSGI server. Step 1 is to add SSL support to waitress with ALPN negotiation that can be used to enable h2 (HTTP2). Step 2 is to implement HTTP2 support in waitress.
Difficulty: medium
Required Skills:
- Python
- HTTP 1.1 and HTTP 2.0 protocols
- SSL / TCP sockets
- asyncore socket handling
Resources:
- An issue exists in the waitress bug tracker that contains more information on what we'd like to see: waitress issue #86
Mentors:
- Bert JW Regeer
- Michael Merickel
Re-work the WebOb tests to remove the large mono-test suite that exists for webob.Request, and others, and properly unit test/functional test the various different parts. Test fixtures using py.test would also help improve the test suite, and would allow better verification of whether WebOb is behaving correctly.
Difficulty: easy
Required skills:
- Python
- Unit testing
Mentors:
- Bert JW Regeer
- Michael Merickel
Re-work and fix WebOb's Accept handling for languages. This work could also be extended to improving Pyramid's usage of webob for stronger accept handling support.
Difficulty: hard
Required skills:
- Python
- HTTP specifications
Resources:
Mentors:
- Bert JW Regeer
- Michael Merickel
Write tests and verify proper RFC handling of data in WebOb/Pyramid in requests/responses
Difficulty: easy
Required skills:
- Python
- HTTP specifications
Mentors:
- Bert JW Regeer
- Michael Merickel
WSGI middleware as part of WebOb. For example, handling Forwarded/X-Forwarded-For and others securely.
Resources:
Difficulty: easy
Required skills:
- Python
- WSGI middleware
- HTTP specifications
Mentors:
- Bert JW Regeer
- Michael Merickel
Re-work and fix WebOb's Range header handling to support alternate Range types. There is a lot of code that currently depends on the way that ranges are handled, the fix suggested in the PR associated with that issue does not work for most cases, and would break a variety of code in WebOb. Supporting this would make using the header for pagination possible, for example.
Resources:
Difficulty: medium
Required skills:
- Python
- HTTP specifications
- Webob internals
Mentors:
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Bert JW Regeer
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Michael Merickel
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This benefits both WebOb and Python itself: WebOb makes heavy use of
cgi.FieldStoragefor parsing POST, unfortunately there have been a variety of cases wherecgi.FieldStorageis lacking (Issue #165), and we carry patches to fix behavior in Py 3.x: compat.py. As seen in Issue #293 this is broken in Py 2.7. Someone with the requisite knowledge of the various RFC standards surrounding MIME encoding and a want to dive deep, fixing this and other issues for the Python stdlib would be fantastic, but it'll also be great for WebOb.