Mentor: Aman Agrawal (amanagr)
Student: Arpit Sharma(arpit551)
Poposal: GSoC Proposal(Gsoc)
My name is Arpit Sharma, and I'm a pre-final year student at IIITM Gwalior. Currently pursuing a dual degree course(BTECH + MTECH) in Information Technology. I have been working as a student developer in Google Summer of Code 2020 for the open-source organization Zulip.
The Google Summer of Code 2020 has been a fantastic and cheerful learning experience for me over the past few months. I have learned a lot from the community, especially how to organize commits and write readable code. Zulip is an amazing community to work with, as mentors are really helpful and experienced. I had started contributing to Zulip from January 2020 and till now, I have 84 commits (3028 additions and 966 deletions) merged. Over the past few months, I had great exposure writing backend codes, communicating with the mentors, doing sys-admin work, etc. Since Zulip is a fast-paced project, some issues mentioned in my proposal were already completed by someone. This gave a chance to work on different issues and codebase. I had completed some of my work in the coding period started as some issues mentioned in my proposal had a high priority for the release.
- Removing hacky code required for travis CI in production-helper and setup production.
- Replacing our production suites to run on circle ci on bionic docker image.
- Fixing Caching Bug while running Circle CI job.
- Add Postgres config for Focal
- Switch to use certbot from apt.
- Add Focal Jobs in Circle CI(for production testing)
- Includes Adding new Count stat for messages read count which record total messages per hour
- Added backend for calculating reads counts and front end for displaying the graph along with other graphs.
- PR was closed with commits merged.
zulip/zulip#15601 Log the acting user when a person perform an action.
- Update Circle CI images zulip/zulip#15549
- Substitute Nginx version in success-http-headers.txt based on OS zulip/zulip#15669
- Rename production test suite option of the provision script zulip/zulip#15195
- Update Nginx version in success-http-headers-focal zulip/zulip#15645
- Circleci setup document zulip/zulip#15166
- Update documentation for Bionic to Focal upgrade zulip/zulip#15657
- Remove Travis leftout code and documentation zulip/zulip#14784
Remove depreciated python2 api's zulip/zulip#16138 More debugging is required here to make sure that the upgrade is smooth.
It was an amazing experience working as a student in Google Summer of Code. The kind of learning that I gained during these 3 months is unparalleled. During these 3 months I have gained a lot of interest in OpenSource and I will continue contributing to it in future as well. I am really thankful to Google for providing such an amazing platform to students like me.