On 27/01/2026 08:52, Mark Thomas wrote:
On 27/01/2026 08:32, Fatima Qaisar wrote:
Hi Mark,
Thank you so much for your detailed reply and for offering to mentor. I’m
genuinely excited about the possibility of contributing to Tomcat
through a
GSoC project.
That is great. Just remember we can't guarantee anything. GSoC is a
competitive process both within the ASF and across all the
organisations. There are only a limited number of slots. I'll do what I
can to support you but I can't make any promises about whether the
project will be accepted or not.
I’ve already cloned the tomcat-maven-plugin repository, fixed a few typos
in the README, and submitted a pull request. I also tried building the
project, which currently fails — I’ll investigate further and report my
findings soon.
Great. I'll look at the PR shortly. I'll also check out the repo so I
can follow along with what you are doing.
You'll see that I have been through and enabled dependabot, updated the
dependencies, fixed any issues caused by the updates and merged some of
the PRs.
The PRs I haven't merged fall into one or more of the following categories:
- needs a test case
- has merge conflicts
- includes unnecessary / unwanted changes
- is an initial implementation Tomcat 9 support (we probably need to
chat about how best to do this)
#44 is particularly interesting as there are a LOT of changes in there.
How to extract useful changes from this another topic for discussion.
Mark
I’m particularly interested in the Maven plugin project. Could you
suggest
which technical areas or skills I should focus on early to prepare
effectively (e.g., Maven internals, plugin architecture, or Tomcat’s
build/deployment process)? I’ll also explore the other project ideas
in the
coming days to understand them better, and then I’ll update you with a
concrete project direction.
I haven't looked at the code so this is only a guess. I'd suggest the
following:
- The o.a.c.startup.Tomcat class. This forms the basis of all embedded
Tomcat uses. There are lots of examples in the unit tests of how to use it.
- Maven plug-in architecture is likely to be useful.
Beyond that, I suspect you'll find yourself having to learn about lots
of different areas depending on where the bugs are. Something that might
help is trying to spot groups of similar bugs and tackling them together
so you don't have to research a completely new area every time you start
a new bug.
I am committed to a full-time GSoC project this summer. I can contribute
part-time until mid-June due to university commitments, after which I
will
dedicate myself full-time to the project.
OK full-time has an expectation of ~350 hours work on the project. The
important thing is that you can get at least that much work done in the
GSoC timescales. Exactly when you get it done is less important.
Thank you again for this opportunity; I truly appreciate your guidance
and
support. I’ll follow up soon with an update on my progress.
Sounds good.
Mark
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