Planet SoC

The Google Summer of Code 2008 coding phase ended a week ago, and final evaluations are currently on.

My GSoC project was about integrating Thunderbird with Windows Search, so that people can search for emails on Windows as conveniently and quickly as they search for documents and other files.
What’s been done?How much of what I initially set out to do has been completed? b7aec41ce7ceb0f2cac196f94d284be3

What hasn’t been done so far? 3b78e1aad6bba8d86ce4916faeddd230

What have I learnt?This was my first time participating in a large open source project, and I’m grateful to Google for the incentive to do so. My job definitely isn’t over yet, and I’d like to continue to work on this until it gets into a very usable state.

(Apologies for any rambling below.) ae86ad0246b1cdb8ff4de050b4609a26

Thanks to…(hopefully I’m not forgetting anyone)

Jeff Beckley, my GSoC mentor, for spending a ridiculous amount of time with me (I guess far more than I deserved), with guidance in both overall direction and specific implementation details.

David Bienvenu and everyone else at #maildev and #developers, for answering every potentially stupid question I had (though I hope the SNR wasn’t too low :) ).

Leslie Hawthorn and everybody else in charge of GSoC at Google, and Gervase Markham, the Mozilla GSoC administrator, for making this possible.

… and Arun Raghavan, a GSoC 2007 veteran from my college, for holding a small lecture about GSoC (I think on March 13) that got me interested in it in the first place.

What a wonderful experience GSoC was!