Re: [Bug-wget] Google Summer of Code 2016

[Darshit Shah]

On 03/02, Kushagra Singh wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply. I went through the repository and the issues,
> and found a couple of things I would like to work on.
>
> I have a couple of questions about Wget2. Is it a complete rewrite of the
> Wget project, available at git://git.savannah.gnu.org/wget.git, or are we
> using existing code and extending functionality? I guess it is the second
> one because I saw `libwget` in the repo. However if such is the case, then
> how do we change existing functions in wget? For example, implementing [2]
> would require making changes to the file cookies.c, which is present in
> /src in the wget repo, but not in /src in the wget2 repo.

Wget2 is a complete rewrite of GNU Wget. It is also available on the 
savannah server as its own repository at [1]. Wget2 is meant to be a 
modern (almost) drop-in replacement for Wget. It strives to maintain 
backward compatible command line options and behaviour as far as it 
makes sense. The codebase for the two projects has diverged by 
significant amounts and hence new features need to be implemented 
separately for each.
> I was looking at #43 [1], and have already submitted a patch for
> consideration for the first suggestion [2]. The second suggestion mentioned
> [3] is one of the things I'd like to work on, however this is not something
> which will take three months :)

You submitted a patch for Wget. This is the Wget2 repository. Anyways, I 
already have a working patch for most of that issue, got sidetracked 
when writing the tests and eventually forgot about it. I think I'll 
spend some time on it this week and have that patch merged. Don't spend 
time on that part.

Another thing to remember is, not all GitHub issues are valid GSoC 
projects. Since the number of issues is few, it is easy to scout out the 
larger ones. Some issues are pretty tiny, just need someone willing to 
spend time working on them.

> Another project I am interested in, is implementing FTPS. I saw this listed
> under one of the ideas of GSoC 2015, but I'm not sure whether it was
> implemented, as I didn't see it under 'Development Status' in the wget2
> readme on Github.
Wget2 as far as I'm aware is still lacking FTPS support. Remember that 
Wget and Wget2 are two different projects.
> Also, in #67 [4], we are talking about adhering to some specific parts of
> RFC 7230. I'm not sure which all parts would be right, as the discussion
> thread mentions that it won't be good to stick to each point of the RFC.
> WDYT?

This is a minor grievance I raised. We stick to most of it anyways. As 
Tim points out, being completely RFC compliant may make the tool 
unusuable thanks to the number of bad servers out there. If anything,  
that issue needs to be split into multiple smaller issues about specific 
parts of the RFC that we want to adhere to.

Open projects I currently see are:
1. FTP / FTPS support
2. SOCKS5 Proxy support (This may be too small.)
3. Progress Bar implementation (Looks deceptively simple, isn't)
4. WARC support and tests
5. Brotli compression (May be too small)

The README file also has more pointers on features not implemented in 
Wget2. You may get some ideas from there. Request pipelining and DNSSEC 
are two features I'd be interested in seeing implemented.

Moreover, you are always welcome to submit your own ideas for either 
Wget or Wget2.

Tim can add more details or comment on whether something is too small to 
work on for a GSoC project.

[1]: git://git.savannah.gnu.org/wget/wget2.git
> [1] https://github.com/rockdaboot/wget2/issues/43
> [2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-west-leave-secure-cookies-alone-04
> [3] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-west-cookie-prefixes-05
> [4] https://github.com/rockdaboot/wget2/issues/67
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 9:57 PM, Giuseppe Scrivano <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Kushagra Singh <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Will we be taking part in GSoC this year? I would really like to work on
> > a
> > > project related to Wget this summer. Any specific ideas that are of
> > > importance to the community presently?
> >
> > yes, we will be take part in GSoC.  I think we would like to see more
> > work happening on wget2, at the moment there is a list of issues on
> > github that can be useful to you to pick some ideas to work on:
> >
> >   https://github.com/rockdaboot/wget2/issues
> >
> > Could you take a look at it?  Do you see anything interesting that you
> > would like to work on?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Giuseppe

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Thanking You,
Darshit Shah

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