Weekly Report 1

Copy of my 1st weekly report.

Short introduction: My name is Lidia and I'm Geekette. Currently finishing 1st year of  master program in Computer Science at Polish Japanese Institute of Information Technology (Poland). For GSoC with Codehaus I am working on Nicer DSLs in Groovy with GEP-3 {
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The main sourse of this project updates is availabe on my personal blog (http://timszel.blogspot.com/). Some posts are in Polish, but they are not connected to this project, so don't be misled.

1) What did I do during community bonding period:

•  Main achievements: Created Groovy GEP-3 discussion group http://groups.google.com/group/groovy-gep-3 (only invitations - please let me know if you are interested)
• Created all necessary accounts on JIRA, xircles
• Downloaded code from specially created branch (https://svn.codehaus.org/groovy/branches/gep-3/ ) so you are now able to check\review my code changes (aiming for commits)
• Investigating possible problems and flows in implementation
• Reading Groovy Spec & Gep 3 proposal
• Studying the codebases. Started introducing simple changes to learn more about Groovy internals.
• Configuring development environment (Eclipse)
• Familiarizing myself with ANTLR Groovy grammar
• Correspondence with Guillaume, Jochen and Paul on possible implementation approaches: thanks Guys for patience!

2) Do I have any problems/obstacle which interfere with my work

•  Learning a codebase takes time & effort. But it was expected and learning time is included in the project schedule.

3) What do I plan to do this week

• Aiming to continue learning & follow investigation steps
• Implementing simple expressions in Groovy according to Gep-3.

Cheers and speak soon :),
Lidia from Poland