grpc/summerofcode/ideas.md

gRPC Summer of Code Project Ideas

C Core:

1. Port gRPC to one of (Free, Net, Open) BSD platforms and create packages for them. Add kqueue support in the process.
2. Fix gRPC C-core's URI parser. The current parser does not qualify as a standard parser according to RFC3986. Write test suites to verify this and make changes necessary to make the URI parser compliant.
3. 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 standalone implementations -- Java and Go.

gRPC Python:

1. Evaluate the port of gRPC's Python implementation to PyPy. Investigate the state of Cython support to do this or potentially explore cffi
2. Develop and test Python 3.5 Support for gRPC. Make necessary changes to port gRPC and package it for supported platforms.

gRPC Ruby/Java:

1. jRuby 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.

Other:

1. Develop a Wireshark plugin for the gRPC protocol. Provide documentation and tutorials for this plugin. Bonus: consider set-up and use with the mobile clients.