GSOC_ideas

Google Summer of Code Ideas

Here is the summary of all the ideas we have for GSoC

Contents

• Performance analysis
• Integrating Git, bzr and hg to Markus
• Web based PDF annotations

Performance analysis

Integrating Git, bzr and hg to Markus

Markus can be configured either to allow students to submit code throught a web interface, or to provide students an svn repository. As DCVS are becoming more and more popular, students often use svn2X tools in order to use DCVS, hosting the code in plateforms like github, launchpad or bitbucket. The idea would be to create an interface for Markus to retrieve automatically the code to be graded (student providing a url).

Web based PDF annotations

Markus has a web based PDF annotations module that used ImageMagick to convert pdf into an image, in order to be able to annotate it. Unfortunately, the current implementation limits the pdf being annotated to 30pages: not enough to annotate a full project reports. The whole process needs to be rethinked and reimplemented.