Description

UMCD

User-made content daemon (UMCD) project. Improving and complete an add-on server. More informations on this page SoC_Ideas_UMCD_2014.

There are no submitted student proposals for this idea

Additional Information

The current add-on server is old and monolithic so it'd problematic to extend it. That's why we started the last summer a new add-on server during a GSOC (see the proposal of the last year here [1]). If you are interested and before starting anything, please come see us.

Goal

Main goal of this summer project is to finish the basic of the server, it means that every actions on add-on should be implemented (create, update, delete, retrieve, update password, ...). It also mean that you should update the client accordingly.
Second goal: Dependencies resolution of the add-ons.
Additional goal: Synchronization of the translations with Wescamp.
Additional goal: Support for gettext on the client side (translation of the server responses).

There is also a side project of a networking library based on Boost.Asio that we'll use inside the UMCD. It could be great to design the add-on server such that basic add-on part could be re-used in other open-source projects (the requirements for an add-on server are often the same).

Where to start

First you should subscribe to the Wesnoth mailing-list [2].
Download and build NEEV [3], since you'll need to install and build Boost, it's important to build this library first (Wesnoth depends on Boost).
Download the source of the game via Github and compile it [4].
See the official UMCD page [5] and compile the UMCD server.
Before starting anything, send a mail or ask on IRC, the UMCD page isn't updated with last informations.

Are you the guy?

There is only one requirement, you must choose between being motivated or being a genius. But we would like you to have some familiarity with C++11 or at least C++. If you don't know C++ but you are interested, ask us and we'll give you some references to learn C++ (but you will need to pass a lot of time learning so be warned). Classic skills in software engineering and SQL are a plus. A love for writing clean code and design is highly advisable.

Resources

Wesnoth repository [6], especially the branch asio_umcd.
UMCD page [7] (not updated be careful).
Boost C++ libraries [8], especially Boost.Asio [9].
SQLPP11 library [10].
Neev library [11].

Whom to ask about this

trademark on IRC or by mail <ptalbot@hyc.io> (contact me first by mail, I could miss you on IRC)
mordante on IRC

SoC Ideas UMCD 2014

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