GSOC 2014/Student Application Axilleas/Isitfedoraruby

Proposal

isitfedoraruby.com is a web-application built with Ruby on Rails, that keeps track of the Fedora/Ruby integration, especially gem -> rpm conversion.

The project was started on 2012 as a Google Summer Of Code project by User:Zuhao and later were added some new features during the Google Code In program. This is my idea of enhancing it from a packager's point of view.

An overview of your proposal

isitfedoraduby is a nice project that never got the attention it deserved. I believe this is because it serves merely as a portal of the gems packaged for Fedora, showing their statuses and some nice statistics and graphs.

Being a packager myself for almost a year now, I am familiar with the difficulties one has to overcome in order to package a gem. This idea aims to facilitate the packaging process by providing some new tools and promote the site among Fedora ruby packagers.

In particular, I have in mind to:

• refactor the base code where needed
• write rspec tests
• enhance the gemfile_tool
• implement a feature of gem/app packaging progress bar
• show better formatted dependency checker
• create a page with stats preview of a gem not yet packaged
• use polisher gem where needed
• write documentation and how-to guides of rubygem packaging

I will try to expand below each item.

A rough timeline for your progress

21/03 - 18/08

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

Yes, User:vondruch