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# gRPC Summer of Code Project Ideas
C Core:
Hello students!
1. Port gRPC to one of (Free, Net, Open) BSD platforms and create packages for them. Add kqueue support in the process.
2. Fix gRPC C-core's URI parser. The current parser does not qualify as a standard parser according to [RFC3986]( https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986). Write test suites to verify this and make changes necessary to make the URI parser compliant.
3. HPACK compression efficiency evaluation - Figure out how to benchmark gRPC's compression efficiency (both in terms of bytes on the wire and cpu cycles). Implement benchmarks. Potentially extend this to other standalone implementations -- Java and Go.
We want gRPC to be the universal protocol for all computing platforms and
paradigms, so while these are our ideas of what we think would make good
projects for the summer, we're eager to hear your ideas and proposals as well.
Try us out and get to know the gRPC code and team!
**Required skills for all projects:** git version control, collaborative
software development on github.com, and software development in at least one
of gRPC's ten languages on at least one of Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
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gRPC C Core:
1. Port gRPC to one of the major BSD platforms ([FreeBSD](https://freebsd.org), [NetBSD](https://netbsd.org), and [OpenBSD](https://openbsd.org)) and create packages for them. Add kqueue support in the process.
* **Required skills:** C programming language, BSD operating system.
* **Likely mentors:** [Craig Tiller](https://github.com/ctiller), [Nicolas Noble](https://github.com/nicolasnoble).
1. Fix gRPC C-core's URI parser. The current parser does not qualify as a standard parser according to [RFC3986]( https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986). Write test suites to verify this and make changes necessary to make the URI parser compliant.
* **Required skills:** C programming language, HTTP standard compliance.
* **Likely mentors:** [Craig Tiller](https://github.com/ctiller).
1. HPACK compression efficiency evaluation - Figure out how to benchmark gRPC's compression efficiency (both in terms of bytes on the wire and cpu cycles). Implement benchmarks. Potentially extend this to other full-stack gRPC implementations (Java and Go).
* **Required skills:** C programming language, software performance benchmarking, potentially Java and Go.
* **Likely mentors:** [Craig Tiller](https://github.com/ctiller).
gRPC Python:
1. Evaluate the port of gRPC's Python implementation to PyPy. Investigate the state of [Cython support](http://docs.cython.org/src/userguide/pypy.html) to do this or potentially explore cffi
2. Develop and test Python 3.5 Support for gRPC. Make necessary changes to port gRPC and package it for supported platforms.
1. Port gRPC Python to [PyPy](http://pypy.org). Investigate the state of [Cython support](http://docs.cython.org/src/userguide/pypy.html) to do this or potentially explore [cffi](https://cffi.readthedocs.org/en/latest/).
* **Required skills:** Python programming language, PyPy Python interpreter.
* **Likely mentors:** [Nathaniel Manista](https://github.com/nathanielmanistaatgoogle), [Masood Malekghassemi](https://github.com/soltanmm).
1. Develop and test Python 3.5 Support for gRPC. Make necessary changes to port gRPC and package it for supported platforms.
* **Required skills:** Python programming language, PyPy Python interpreter.
* **Likely mentors:** [Nathaniel Manista](https://github.com/nathanielmanistaatgoogle), [Masood Malekghassemi](https://github.com/soltanmm).
gRPC Ruby/Java:
1. jRuby support for gRPC. Develop a jRuby wrapper for gRPC based on grpc-java and ensure that it is API compatible with the existing Ruby implementation and passes all tests.
1. [jRuby](http://jruby.org) support for gRPC. Develop a jRuby wrapper for gRPC based on grpc-java and ensure that it is API compatible with the existing Ruby implementation and passes all tests.
* **Required skills:** Java programming language, Ruby programming language.
* **Likely mentors:** [Michael Lumish](https://github.com/murgatroid99), [Eric Anderson](https://github.com/ejona86).
Other:
gRPC Wire Protocol:
1. Develop a Wireshark plugin for the gRPC protocol. Provide documentation and tutorials for this plugin. Bonus: consider set-up and use with the mobile clients.
1. Develop a [Wireshark](https://wireshark.org) plugin for the gRPC protocol. Provide documentation and tutorials for this plugin.
* **Bonus:** consider set-up and use with mobile clients.
* **Required skills:** Wireshark software.
* **Likely mentors:** [Nicolas Noble](https://github.com/nicolasnoble).