GSoC 2019 Brainstorming

[bacharakis]

Briefing

Improve FixMe, a tool for surfacing meaningful contribution opportunities to new contributors. This project started two years ago as a GSoC project, and we are looking into adding more capabilities. The tool currently fetches issues only from GitHub and relays a lot into the tags project maintainers use in their repositories. We want to add gitlab support and come up with a more sophisticated way of identifying the technologies and skills needed for new contributors

Detailed mandatory deliverables

• A hook for fetching issues from Gitlab
• Implement a fully automated and more sophisticated way for identifying technologies used on each repo
• Implement a new way of identifying the skills needed for each issue (both GitHub and GitLab)

Additional bonus deliverables

• A mechanism for letting users login using Gitlab/GitHub
• Preview issues with comments with all the necessary information in FixMe instead of redirecting users to the relevant repo (designs will be provided)
• Implement some UI changes on how issues are listed based on provided designs
• Provide additional information for each project at the project page, similar to this. Designs will be given

[aswinmprabhu]

I was wondering what's the benefit letting users sign in? Currently the tool is an archive of links to issues that enables easy discovery. I don't think sign in is required for this unless we are planning to implement something like commenting on issues from fixme.

[thenishchalraj]

This looks to me a very interesting thing. I will surely want to do this. Thinking all day about this. :)