[SoC] Project Proposal - Pier

[Giovanni Corriga]

Il giorno sab, 03/03/2007 alle 00.58 +0000, Keith Hodges ha scritto:
> OWTRTA - One Wiki to Rule Them All.
> 
> Project Outline:
> Develop a wiki translation engine using Pier, enabling Pier to routinely 
> read and write other wiki formats. Using a configuration of Pier with 
> the OODBMS Magma as a back end, test and explore scalability issues with 
> the goal of importing wikipedia. The ability to have a full text search 
> of the persisted data is required.
> 
> Technical details:
> Pier is a wiki engine designed explicitly to be extensible and scalable. 
> Unlike the majority of wiki implementations Pier has a very clean design 
> which uses a number of classic design patterns. Wiki formatted content 
> is read using a parser into its internal object-model representation, 
> the parser is generated from a parser compiler.
> 
> Benefits to the Student:
> This project will be beneficial to any Computer Science student, 
> reflecting much of what they will have been taught. It will providing a 
> learning opportunity through exposure to the full, clean, source code of 
> every facet of these particular technologies, which represent the best 
> of their class, in terms of their design. For example, as a starting 
> point the student will begin by learning how to use a compiler-compiler 
> as a parser generator.
> 
> Benefits to the community:
> A large amount of information is being held in legacy wiki's, within the 
> squeak community alone wiki.squeak.org has over 5000 pages. Pier needs 
> some enhancements before it is ready to take up the mantel.
> Magma is a relatively new OODBMS, which is beginning to be used in some 
> commercial environments and these would benefit greatly from the 
> scalability testing involved in this project.
> 
> hows that for a first draft?

Perfect. But now I'll have to update all the other proposals to your
template :-/

	Giovanni