Initial checkin of gRPC to third_party/

third_party/grpc/summerofcode/ideas.md

+# gRPC Summer of Code Project Ideas
+
+Hello students!
+
+We want gRPC to be the universal remote procedure call 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](https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md) 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.
+
+-------------------------------------
+
+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](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=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),
+ [Vijay Pai](https://github.com/vjpai).
+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. 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](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).
+
+
+gRPC Wire Protocol:
+
+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).