Google Summer of Code 2018 Project Proposal

Note: This is a work in progress. The proposal will be further modified and improved, upon discussions and feedback from the Sugar Labs community

Project Name: Attentive Migration of wiki activity pages to git

Author : Rudra Sadhu

About Me

Name: Rudra Sadhu

Email: rdrsadhu@gmail.com

Sugar Labs wiki username: rdrsadhu (user-page at User: rdrsadhu)

IRC nickname on irc.freenode.net: rdrsadhu

Languages: English, Hindi, Bengali

Where am I located? and what hours(UTC) do I tend to work?

I'm located at Kolkata, India (UTC +05:30)
Working Hours: Flexible (Whatever works for both me and my mentor)

Past experiences with Open-Source projects:

actively contributing to Open-Source since August, 2017
organisation: Oppia

firstly, Why Oppia(and now Sugar Labs)?

I've always believed, 'there is no process as powerful as education to change the world'

Mission of Oppia Foundation and Sugar Labs are similar(if not exactly same). Read here

My first pull request : Fix #3258: Add share-to-classroom Button ~Happiness is when pull-requests gets merged :)
What else did I chip in?

while playing around, Found an issue in the application,

Recorded it : https://github.com/oppia/oppia/issues/3750

Submitted fix: https://github.com/oppia/oppia/pull/3754 ~Felt Awesome!

Created outline for Mathematics Lessons(Geometry)
6 other Merged pull-requests. Complete list here

these are either Code Refactoring (which proves my skill to understand complex codebases, and knowledge of intermediate git workflow- dealing with branches, merge-conflicts etc)

or Trivial Documentation fixes (which confirms my attention to detail)

What did I gain out of contributing to Open Source projects and why I'm again up for it?

I learned a lot! and more importantly, had fun learning.
A sense of pride and satisfaction, to be able to contribute for a good cause, which impacts people around the globe.
Mentions on the Credits Page. Even if I die tomorrow, this will stay on.
I've got nothing to lose :D

I've tasted failures as well, and I'm not uncomfortable to talk about them. Well, because they often teach us a lot more than successes.

this pull-request of mine did not get merged.

About Project

Project Name: Attentive Migration of wiki activity pages to git

Description:

At present, the Activities#Sugar_Activities section in Sugar Labs wiki lists 345 pages.
These pages individually serves as homepages(containing all relevant information), for different Sugar Activities.

example: Activities/MakeyMakey is the homepage for MakeyMakey activity. Whereas, its source-code is hosted at https://github.com/sugarlabs/makeymakey

With every new activity, the volume of wiki.sugarlabs.org is expanding, and thus it is getting harder to maintain all of the stuff at a single place.
Also, as Sugar Labs is moving towards GitHub style of development (see discussion)

it would be beneficial(and more maintainable) in the long run if these 345 wiki pages were embedded in their corresponding git repositories.

Objective:

Write a program(or script) to migrate all of the above-mentioned wiki-content to their corresponding git repositories in markdown format, with great attention to quality.

Promised Outcome:

100% of mentioned wiki-pages(from wikitext markup) moved to their git repositories(in markdown format).

Something like https://github.com/rdrsadhu/portfolio-activity, from Activities/Portfolio
- this is a fork of the original repository https://github.com/sugarlabs/portfolio-activity
- I'm aware that the README.md file is not optimal.
  - I intend to discuss a few things with the community, before starting to optimize the conversion process, which will be the most important part of this project.

Also, all the current wiki-pages will be deprecated(deleted/moved? to be discussed with the community)

Technologies used:

Programming Languages: Python 3.6
Tools: git, pandoc
APIs: MediaWiki API

High-Level overview of the Migration Process:

For each page to migrate

Step 0: Determine to which GitHub repository, it'll be added
Step 1: from wiki.sugarlabs.org/activities/activity_page, Get source file(wikitext) which is to be converted(to markdown)
Step 2: Get associated extra files(images etc) used in the wiki-page
Step 3: Convert wikitext content to Markdown
Step 4: Add Converted Markdown files to GitHub repository mentioned in Step 0
Step 5: Delete/Archive wiki-page and associated extra files from wiki.sugarlabs.org

Detailed Technical description of Migration Process

Step 1: using MediaWiki API, query wiki.sugarlabs.org to get list of all pages to convert
Step 2: For each page, research and find out(or discuss with mentor/community) where to place them in GitHub
- there isn't a one:one correspondence for all the pages and the git repositories
- for example:
  - in the section Activities#Sugar_Activities, there are at least 20 pages as Activities/Turtle Art/Tutorials/wiki-page-name , which I believe should be in the same git repository
  - Some git repositories already has a README.md file, which contains information not available in the corresponding wiki-page (See activity-git-repo : activity-wiki-page)
  - The variety is a lot more, which I plan to extensively discuss, before the coding-period starts.
Step 3: For each GitHub repository to push converted markdown files:
- 3.1: Fork the repository (create a copy of the original repository into my-GitHub-account)
- 3.2: Pull the forked repository (get a local copy of it, in my development machine)
- 3.3: For each file to be pushed into the repository:
  - Using MediaWiki API, query a specific wiki-page, to get its raw source(in wikitext format), and all associated files(images etc)
  - create a safe backup of the original raw wikitext
  - generate one temporary duplicate file(containing raw wikitext), to convert into markdown format
  - using pandoc, convert
  - while the conversion is not perfect (it is difficult or sometimes not-possible, to generate the exact functionalities of a wiki-page into a markdown file. For example, image-galleries)
    - modify the temporary wikitext file, with attention to every small detail
    - and convert again
- 3.3: Commit all newly generated files (also the safe wikitext backup; in-case the community decides to keep it for future reference)
- 3.4: git push to Forked Repository
- 3.5: Send a Pull Request to original Repository
- 3.6: After Pull Request gets merged;
  - redirect the wiki-page to its git repository
  - using MediaWiki API, delete/move contents of original wiki-page

Project Deliverables

3 clear quantitatively measurable goals to determine project success/failure status which will help in evaluation

Month 01: Compete high-quality end-to-end migration of 100 pages
Month 02: Compete high-quality end-to-end migration of 300 pages
Month 03: Compete high-quality end-to-end migration of 345 pages

Project Timeline:

Week	Date(2018)	Period	Task
	Today - April 22		Research about the variety of content in different wiki-pages to be converted Discuss with the community about anything important which comes up Learn more about syntax of wikitext, different functionalities of MediaWiki API
	April 23 - May 13	Community Bonding	Set up Development environment(Install necessary software, packages, libraries) Set up a dedicated blog for GSoC 2018 Blog post about my plans for Coding Month 01

	May 14 - June 10	Coding Month 01
01	May 14 - May 20		Write Script Test Script extensively
02	May 21 - May 27		Complete end-to-end migration of 30 Pages
03	May 28 - June 03		Complete end-to-end migration of 65 Pages
04	June 04 - June 10		Complete end-to-end migration of 100 Pages Blog post about my plans for Coding Month 02

	June 11 - July 08	Coding Month 02
05	June 11 - June 17	First Midterm Evaluations	Quality Check of all pages migrated during Coding Month 01 Submit Evaluations Complete end-to-end migration of 150 Pages
06	June 18 - June 24		Complete end-to-end migration of 200 Pages
07	June 25 - July 01		Complete end-to-end migration of 250 Pages
08	July 02 - July 08		Complete end-to-end migration of 300 Pages Blog post about my plans for Coding Month 03

	July 09 - August 05	Coding Month 03
09	July 09 - July 15	Second Midterm Evaluations	Quality Check of all pages migrated during Coding Month 02 Submit Evaluations Complete end-to-end migration of 345 Pages
10	July 16 - July 22		Final Quality Check of all migrated pages Detailed documentation about everything related to this project
11	July 23 - July 29		Clean up Development environment Buffer time to accommodate any due/extra/unknown work
12	July 30 - August 05		Buffer time to accommodate any due/extra/unknown work

	August 06 - August 14	Final Evaluations	Submit Evaluations Be Humble, and thank everyone for the opportunity :)

Convince us, in 5-15 sentences, that you will be able to successfully complete your project in the timeline you have described. This is usually where people describe their past experiences, credentials, prior projects, schoolwork, and that sort of thing, but be creative. Link to prior work or other resources as relevant

what better way to prove that I can do the work, than doing some 'real' work?

Find the beta version of proposed script here

I implemented some basic features of the script, which
- given any Sugar Activity pagename and forked_repo_url, migrates the page(without any manual supervision) and commits all generated files into the local copy of forked-repository
- The script is commented to explain what each part is doing
- The script follows, roughly the same workflow stated in Detailed Technical description of Migration Process above

I tried the script on 3 different pages of Activities.

Here are the results:

Note: I'm aware of the sub-optimal output from pandoc. and that is what I plan to refine during the summer. It will require a lot of careful observations(and maybe some manual cleanup as well according to diverse page content) and thus was not possible to implement in this limited timeframe.

I do not have any other commitments during the summer, and will be able to devote complete time & energy to implement this project at the best of its quality.

Moreover, I'm excited to learn and willing to push myself.

Project and the Community

If the project is successfully completed, what will be its impact on the Sugar Labs community?

Answer 1: Rudra Sadhu:

All information about 1 particular Sugar Activity, will live inside its GitHub Repository, which will help
- Activity Maintainers
- New members of the community
- Users
- and ultimately everyone :)
GitHub is the world's leading software development platform, (check Stack Overflow 2018 developer survey)
- thus hosting a complete repository with all the documentation, will provide greater exposure and surely help to attract more developers and traffic to the community

Answer 2: SL Community Member-1:

Please share your views

Answer 3: SL Community Member-2:

Please share your views

What will I do if I get stuck on the project and my mentor isn't around?

I know where to get information, or ask for help (google, stackoverflow.com, etc)
Read documentation of related tools
Ask other Sugar Labs members via IRC, developer mailing lists
Ask help from Sugar Labs GSoC coordinator

How do I propose to keep the community informed of my progress and any problems or questions I might have over the course of the project?

daily updates on IRC
weekly blog post
- about what I did the previous week
- what I plan to do the next week
communication via mailing-lists (as and when needed)
all the code I write and every Pull-Requests/Issues I open
- will be thoroughly commented in an easy to understand format
Live Record of Activity migration status for all the 345 pages.
- I intend to create a wiki-page/git-repo which at any time will reflect the current migration status of all the 345 pages. Something like this

Miscellaneous

Is it mandatory to set up Sugar development environment and attach a screenshot ?

because this project; does neither directly requires, nor depends on the Sugar development environment

Describe a great learning experience you had as a child

Coming Soon

Is there anything else we should have asked you or anything else that we should know that might make us like you or your project more?

Coming Soon

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