GSOC 2012/Student Application Cerberus/Fedora JBoss spin

Contact Information

• Name: Anthony Sasadeusz
• Email Address: sasadeu1@umbc.edu
• Telephone: 443-356-0462
• Blog URL: http://asasadeusz.wordpress.com/
• Freenode IRC Nick: cerberus30

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Please answer following questions.

Why do you want to work with the Fedora Project?

Because I like the idea of working with the open source community. Built by everyone for everyone. I also feel that I could develop my skills as a computer engineer while helping the Fedora distribution move forward.

Do you have any past involvement with the Fedora project or with any another open source project as a contributor (if possible please add some references as well)?

Just started getting involved packaging for the JBoss project for Fedora. The process always seemed a bit daunting but I am hoping to get introduced to the culture and the community. In doing so I would increase my own knowledge while putting it to use for the Fedora community. I have started to get involved with the JBoss packaging effort and my most recent package was jboss-web.

Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations?

No.

Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Fedora project after the GSoC 2012 program, if yes, which team(s)/area(s), you are interested with?

Yes, packaging for the near future. As I finish up my degree work, I will be adding skills to allow me to further help the project in other areas. Hopefully next semester I will be taking an operating systems course geared towards operating system development and a course on embedded development.

Why should we choose you over the other applicants?

Motivated, self-starter, with an insatiable desire to learn, help, and please others.

Proposal Description

• Please describe your proposal in detail. Include:

An overview of your proposal

• To package the Gradle build system for Fedora so that Hibernate and other like projects can be built on Fedora to be included with JBoss.

The need you believe it fulfills

• JBOSS provides Java Enterprise developers with an option of a compact distribution via a Fedora JBoss spin.
• Shrinkwrap provides a simple mechanism to assemble archives like JARs, WARs, and EARs with a friendly, fluent API, for Java Enterprise developers.
• Arquillian is a powerful testing platform that handles the plumbing of of managing the container lifecycle, deployment and framework initialization so you can focus on writing your integration tests.
• These features would entice Java Enterprise developers to chose Fedora as their primary operating system.

Any relevant experience you have

• Junior in the Computer Engineering program at University of Maryland Baltimore County. I have experience in developing, compiling, and submitting projects on a Linux distribution. I know C, C++, Python, Java, ant, cvs, and bash and I have used Fedora for years.

How do you intend to implement your proposal

• Start by becoming a proven packager.
• Do some research on using Maven.
• Start packaging the dependencies required by Shrinkwrap.
• Separate the Shrinkwrap source into separate build-able modules.
• Try to build against rawhide.
• And, test, test, test.
• Then start seperating Arquillian into seperate build-able modules.
• Try to build Arquillian componenets against rawhide.
• Then test, test, test.
• Repeat as necessary.

Final deliverable of the proposal at the end of the period

• Shrinkwrap and Arquillian completely packaged and ready for the Fedora JBoss spin.

Any other details you feel we should consider

• I have a lot of time to spend over the summer on this project.

Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who?

• Yes, Marek Goldmann.