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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:53:03 +0200
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Subject: Welcome GSoC students!
From: johannes@php.net (Johannes =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Schl=FCter?=)

Hi,

Google just announced the final assignments for their Summer of Code
program for this year.
On behalf of the PHP project I'd like to welcome our students and give
you some general information about the project.

The following projects have been accepted for the PHP project:

  Zend LLVM Extension  
    by Joonas Govenius, mentored by Nuno Lopes 
  PHP Optimizer  
    by Samuel Graham Kelly IV, mentored by Derick Rethans 
  PhD Improvements and Updates  
    by Nicholas Sloan, mentored by Hannes Magnusson 
  Replace auto* with CMake  
    by Alejandro Leiva Rojas, mentored by Pierre A. Joye 
  gsoc:2008 - XDebug  
    by Chung-Yang Lee, mentored by David Coallier 
  Rewrite the run-tests.php script  
    by Cesar Montedonico, mentored by Travis Swicegood 
  PHP Bindings for Cairo  
    by Akshat Gupta, mentored by Anant Narayanan 
  Algorithm Optimizations  
    by Michal Dziemianko, mentored by Scott MacVicar 
  PECL, Website Improvements  
    by Barry Carlyon, mentored by Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson 
  Implement Unicode into PHP 6  
    by Henrique do Nascimento Angelo, mentored by Scott MacVicar

See http://code.google.com/soc/2008/php/about.html for details about
these projects.

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Chats:
   Chats are an important way for communication, it's a place to get
   questions answered fast, at least sometimes. As most PHP developers
   are either from Europe or the states the most traffic in general is
   there from European noon till late evening or during American
   daytime. There are no "official" channels but #php.pecl on EFNet is a
   place with many developers hanging out.  Please mind that IRC is no
   place for decisions. Decisions should, in general, be made on the
   list else you only get responses from people who are randomly around.
   An introduction about IRC can be found on
   http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/irctutorial.html Please ask your
   mentor for further advice for your specific project.

Code management:
   The PHP project uses CVS for tracking it's code. For using php.net's
   CVS server please check http://php.net/anoncvs.php For getting write
   access on a repository you can request an account on
   http://php.net/cvs-php.php - before doing that please check with your
   mentor to define what kind of access you need for your specific
   project.

Coding styles:
    For code written in the C programming language please mind our
    general standards: http://php.net/reST/php-src/CODING_STANDARDS
    Projects written in PHP should follow the PEAR Coding Standards:
    http://pear.php.net/manual/en/standards.php
    And again: Your specific project might have other standards, please
    check with your mentor.

Any questions left? Ask your mentor, use the mentioned communication
tools or if you can't find somebody else you can write to me and I'll to
assist you.

Greetings,
johannes
GSoC Co-Administrator for PHP, Release Manager for PHP 5.3