[Mapbender-dev] GSoC 2010 Project - RESTful API for Mapbender [RFC]

[Vikash Banjara]

Seven,

Thanks for your suggestions. I have made proper changes to the application.
You can check out once again.

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Seven (aka Arnulf) <seven at arnulf.us> wrote:

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> Vikash Banjara wrote:
> > Hello devs,
> >
> > I have submitted my proposal for GSoC 2010 project - RESTful API for
> > Mapbender at http://socghop.appspot.com under the Organization OSGeo.
> > Please  go through the proposal and suggest me changes. I still have time
> > till 9th April 2010 to edit the proposal. I will be really grateful to
> you
> > people for reviewing the application.
> >
> > Anticipating response,
> > Regards
> > Vikash
>
> Vikash,
> thank you for submitting the proposal. Before submitting my comments to
> the GSoC site please consider the following details:
>
> I have a question and suggestion wrt the work plan. Why do you want to
> first implement the client side request of the API and then the server
> side?
>
> I was wrong when I said that client side should be designed first. Logical
thing will be to design the server side processing.

Regards
Vikash


> We should also clean out terminology, what is the client side and what
> is the server side, what is the back end. We could add this as a work
> package to the first three week design period.


>
> After GSoC starts - First three weeks -
>
> Add:
> ... "Update the Glossary of the project to describe the use of the terms
> "client", "server", "back end", "application", etc. in the context of
> the project"
>
> +++
>
> After first three weeks to Mid-term -
>
> Add:
> ... "We will use a test driven development method and follow the Scrum
> process with daily scrums (as the availability of mentor and student
> will allow).
>
> +++
> Please consider answering for this question:
>
> "How does your SoC task benefit the OSGeo member project, and more
> generally the OSGeo Foundation as a whole?"
>
> Suggestion:
> "The REST-API project will make it easier to integrate Mapbender with
> other projects. It will also allow machine access to the management back
> end data and improve the use of the project as centralized management
> back end for spatial data infrastructures. This will further improve the
> USP of the project."
>
> +++
>
> "Please provide details of previous GIS experience"
>
> I suggest you say: "None". This will not be a problem for us (as you
> already say further down). The project and tasks involved do not require
> you to have up front knowledge of GIS.
>
> +++
>
> I will talk over the proposal with Christoph but as far as I am
> concerned this is already a good proposal. I am happy with it.
>
> Best regards,
> Arnulf.
>
> - --
> Arnulf Christl
>
> Exploring Space, Time and Mind
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