Changes between Version 3 and Version 4 of SummerOfCode2014

Timestamp:

Feb 12, 2014, 11:32:10 AM (11 years ago)

Author:

Shai Berger

Comment:

Added the "improve backends" idea

SummerOfCode2014

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 A simpler version of this project would be to enable separate packaging and distribution of Django's contrib apps.
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+=== Improving the less popular database backends ===
+* '''Complexity:''' Medium
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+Django supports several database backends, but not equally. The less popular backends -- Oracle in core, as well as open-source backends outside core, could probably use some love. As an example, Oracle has three major problems:
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+ * The GIS backend is broken (it does not pass Django's own test-suite)
+ * Python 3 is [ticket:20725 not supported] (this is a problem with the Python driver, requiring C programming)
+ * The handling of case in database object names is problematic (e.g. #20487)
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+While these alone would not fill an agenda for a full GSoC project, an interested student could collect enough related issues -- perhaps in more than one backend -- to keep busy for the whole term.
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+Keep in mind that for working on 3rd-party backends, a committer for the relevant backend will probably need to be involved in mentoring; however, given such involvement, Django will accept such GSoC projects.
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+See also: 
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+ * [https://code.djangoproject.com/query?status=assigned&status=new&summary=~oracle&or&status=assigned&status=new&keywords=~oracle&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=owner&col=type&col=component&order=priority Trac's list of Oracle issues]
+ * Similar queries for 3rd-party backends should be added here