Custom Distribution Service : Midterm Summary

This year GSoC had a longer community bonding than any of the previous editions due to the Coronavirus pandemic and therefore this gave me a lot of time to explore, so I spent it by building a prototype for my project. I realised some of the blockages I might face early on, and therefore it gave me more clarity in terms of how I can proceed. I also spent this time preparing a design document which you can find here.

Community Bonding Blog

In week one, I spent time getting used to the tech stack I would be using, I was pretty familiar with Spring Boot but React was something I was going to be using for the first time, so I spent time studying more about it. I also got the project page ready, the issues I was going to tackle and the milestones that I had to achieve before the evaluation. I also spent a bit of time setting up the home page and a bit of front-end components.

Week 1 Blog

Once we were done with the initial setup, it was time to work on the core of the project. In the second week, I worked on generating the package configuration and the plugin list dummy display page setup. I also ran into issues with the Jenkinsfile so the majority of time was spent fixing it. Finally I managed to get around those problems. You can read more about it in the Week 2 Blog post.

Week 2 Blog

The last week was spent cleaning up most of the code and getting the remaining milestones in. This was probably the hardest part of phase 1 because it involved connecting the front and back end of the project.You can read more about it here.

Week 3

The second phase has been going on for the past 3 weeks and we have already accomplished a majority of the deliverables including community configurations, war downloading and filtering of plugins. More details about the mid term report can be found here.

Midterm Update