GSoC 2023 application for Kotlin has been submitted!

Hi everyone! The page with the GSoC projects is up: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/gsoc-2023.html

Hey Everyone, I had a look at the project ideas and I am particularly very interested in the project Groovy to Kotlin Gradle DSL Converter. This plugin is very useful cause the pain point that this plugin is gonna address is real and this will save a lot of time for developers( including me) around the world. I would love to work on this project as a GSoC mentee, I have a very basic knowledge of building intellij plugins( followed an article by freecodecamp once), good knowledge of Gradle and Groovy and I have been working with Kotlin for about 3 years now! Would love to discuss more about the plans for implementation(if we have any right now). Also, you can know more about me here

Actually, this project Kotlin Multiplatform libraries is also looking very interesting to me, would like to discuss more regarding it too

Greetings! I'm not a beginner to open source or Kotlin, as I am quite experienced with them both. But I am a student in the USA. When registrations open up, I'm interested in working on the Kotlin Multi Platform libraries. http://gitlab.com/doomsdayrs/ http://github.com/doomsdayrs/

Hello! I am new to open source and interested in contributing to kotlin for GSoC. I have seen beginner tasks from other project and was wondering if the team here has any set up or that are available for me to work through.

Hi everyone! I am also new to open source and have some summer internship experience of Android development with Kotlin at Audible. I got extremely interested in parameter forwarding project for the Kotlin IntelliJ Plugin and will submit a proposal for it when the applications are open. Meanwhile I’d love to ask for any recommendations on how to start working on open source projects. I will appreciate it a lot if you could share with me some resources or tips on how to get started, both with open source in general and Kotlin ecosystem specifically. I would also be more than happy to hop on a call and chat if anyone is able and willing to talk and think it is a good medium to share experience 🙂

Hello, I would like to participate in the project. I've learned and used Kotlin since 2019, and I have completed several projects, including web services (front and back ends), Minecraft modding, command-line programs, and desktop applications using Kotlin Multiplatform. I have been looking for Kotlin projects since the first year I learned about the GSoC. After reading the ideas listed on the introduction website, I believe that the idea of building a Groovy to Kotlin Gradle DSL Converter is extremely useful and important for the efficiency of Kotlin development. I am also interested in other project ideas, such as building Kotlin Multiplatform libraries and enhancing the kotlinx-benchmark library. I am new to open source, but I am passionate about it and would appreciate your guidance if possible.😊 My GitHub account: https://github.com/nicognaw

Hello everyone! I am an undergraduate university student majoring in computer science and I would love to contribute to the Kotlin community. I have been using Kotlin sporadically in a few of my JVM-related projects since 2019. I am interested in improving the compiler error messages, which I believe would be helpful for both beginners and experienced users alike. I am also interested in the idea of a Groovy-to-Kotlin DSL converter for Gradle build scripts, as I have some experience working with them in the past. Although I have contributed to open source before, I still consider myself relatively new to it. I am looking forward to discussing, learning, and growing along with everyone! 😄

Greetings KotlinLang Team, My name is Bhawna and I'm currently studying Computer Science for my Bachelor's degree. I possess skills in both development and design, and I also serve as the Founder and Lead Organizer of SheBuilds. I have been granted the opportunity to participate in the MLH fellowship and Google Summer of Code '22 with the RadarBase organization. With a total of 40+ hackathons attended, I have won over 20 of them. Engaging with various communities and events is something I greatly enjoy, having presented at approximately 5+ seminars and events discussing Hackathons and Open Source. Looking to connect with mentor for discussing more about the project 🙂 Thanks & Regards Bhawna

Hello everyone 👋, My name is Divyansh and I am an Electronics undergraduate from India. Since my freshman year in college, which began in November 2020, I have been learning Android development and developing apps. Last year, I started my journey into open-source software development by participating in the Google Summer of Code 2022. During this time, I was mentored by the AnkiDroid organisation and worked on migrating the codebase from AsyncTask to Kotlin Coroutines as part of my GSoC project. Additionally, I also worked on migrating the remaining Java files to Kotlin. I am particularly interested in contributing to the "Improve support for parameter forwarding in the Kotlin Plugin" project. I typically use gradle.kts for my scripts and I love it. As correctly stated on the project's page, an example is, Jetpack Compose, which heavily relies on the composition pattern. Thus, better IDE support for it would be incredibly helpful to me as well as the entire community. I have been using Kotlin as my primary programming language for over two years and would relish the opportunity to build 🔨 something amazing that is useful to the community 😇 Divyansh Kushwaha https://github.com/divyanshdxn

And, If I'm not wrong, @Akshit Sinha you were also a part of GSoC'22 at AnkiDroid. Right?

Hi everyone. I am Shashank Mishra, a final year undergraduate studying Computer Science. I have previously interned at Atlassian as a backend intern (Kotlin, Springboot) and currently interning at Branch International as an android intern. Although i am new to the world of open source, i am very much interested in working on the kotlin multiplatform libraries project. Can anyone guide me on how can i get started and discuss more on the project?

Hey, @Alina Dolgikh [JB] ! Can we have a mentors role so that we can tag and ask our queries. Or maybe can we have the information who'll be mentoring which project? So that folks interested in particular project can ask the mentor(s).

Hi folks! I am Pankaj Khushalani, an engineering student in Information Technology discipline from VJTI, India. I was introduced to Kotlin from Google Developers’ Android Study Jams back in November 2020 and have been building Android projects using Kotlin ever since. As someone who has used both the Gradle script and Kotlin Gradle DSL, I have faced the pain to migrate Gradle scripts to the Kotlin DSL. I find the project idea really useful and would love to contribute to the “Groovy to Kotlin Gradle DSL Converter” GSoC project. Is there any task list available for the projects or a list of mentors?

Hello! I'm quite new to open source, but am very eager to learn and would love to contribute to the Groovy to Kotlin Gradle DSL Converter. I have used Kotlin for building production-grade backends so I'm quite familiar with the language and enjoy using it. I have quite an interest in parsers and compilers so I think this project would be a great opportunity for me to learn and apply this knowledge to solve a real-world problem. Like many others, I too have experienced wanting to use a Groovy DSL snippet of code in my

build.gradle.kts

only to have to figure out the syntax differences in order to get it to work. Since there is quite an interest in the Groovy to Kotlin Gradle DSL Converter project, I would also be happy to contribute to one of the following projects: Kotlin Compiler error messages; Kotlin Multiplatform libraries; kotlinx-benchmark library API; Parallel stacks for Kotlin Coroutines in the debugger; support for parameter forwarding in the Kotlin Plugin; https://github.com/dawidl022

Are there any steps I could take now to increase my chances of being selected as a contributor?

Hi everyone! I’m getting DMs about recommending resources on how to get started with open source in general and Kotlin project specifically. Is there anything we could recommend apart from https://kotlinlang.org/docs/contribute.html?

For the folks who aren't familiar with IntelliJ platform plugin development, this video is a great resource to get familiar with IntelliJ Plugin and SDK environment. https://www.youtube.com/live/cAwH_DbFrfw?feature=share

I'd ask everyone, until a guideline for GSoC projects isn't out, please don't hesitate to share any resources you think would be helpful to others.

Since most of the projects are around Plugins for IntelliJ, I'd suggest joining #intellij-plugins for any queries and help.

@Ksenia Shneyveys I think this could help others and reduce your DMs 😅

I wasn't able to find a good article about developing plugins for code-suggestions and autocompletion BTW. So if anyone wants to share something?

Hi everyone! I’m HyunWoo Lee, conputer engineering student in Konkuk University from South Korea. I’ve studied Kotlin and Android Development since 2020 and now I am currently working as an Android developer at a company called Mathpresso(making QANDA - AI Education Solution) to fulfill my mandatory military service. I’ve been interested in Compose and open source contribution. I contributed Android conference applications written in Compose and some open source projects. I am currently interested in Kotlin Mobile Multiplatform, so I am creating sample apps in my spare time. It’s fascinating to me that I can create apps for both platforms using my favorite language, Kotlin (some codes are written in Swift or Objective-C). I’d love to develop this wonderful tech, so that I’m interested in working on the Kotlin Multiplatform Libraries and making contributions for KMM developer ecosystem. Also I’d be happy to contribute Groovy to Kotlin Gradle DSL Converter project, since I’m using

build.gradle.kts

and it’ll be useful for me and other developers using Kotlin DSL for gradle :) I would love to discuss for these implementations & projects. And you can see & know more about me here. Thanks & Regards HyunWoo Lee

Before the GuideLines are out, I'll recommend this video for Open source newbies. and this also

Hey everyone 👋 I am Vaibhav Jaiswal, a Computer Science Engineering student at RCC Institute Of Information Technology, Kolkata, India. I am also working as a Software Engineer - Intern at Pratilipi I have been working on A*ndroid since 2020* and like working on Android a lot, which is my main domain. I have made many open-source projects and won a few international hackathons. I like Kotlin a lot, coming from a Java background, Kotlin made everything so simple for me. I have tried all domains using Kotlin, and I have made backends using Ktor, tried making a React app using Kotlin React and recently started to explore Kotlin Multi-platform and made a simple open source project on it too and on to make more. I am a lot into Kotlin Multi-platform development and I am very much interested in contributing to Kotlin Multi-platform Libraries. Apart from this, I am also interested in contributing to Gradle Groovy to Kotlin DSL Converted Plugin. Looking forward to connecting with mentors and discussing the project and implementation in detail. You can know more about me from my Linkedin and Github. Thanks, Vaibhav Jaiswal

Guys, I came across this article on how to ask technical questions in open-source communities. Please check it out. I believe part of it would be part of the guidelines that we'll receive later on http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

It's a bit bulky and I'll drop summaries of it occasionally on here. Please let me know if it's a good idea.

It looks like there is a lot of interest in the Groovy -> Kotlin Gradle converter project! I shared this in a thread but figure it is useful for many here:

My own thoughts on the Gradle DSL converter are that it'd be cool to see if you can leverage OpenAI or some LLM with a corpus of GitHub projects that have done a

build.gradle

to

build.gradle.kts

migration.