GSoC 2018 - Isabel Costa

Isabel Costa#

I proposed and worked on Mentorship System Backend and Android application. I was mentored by Dilushi, Murad, Roopal and May as an admin.

Work Hours#

Days	Hours (WEST = GMT+01)	Meeting	Tool
Monday	10:00 - 18:00	Scrum Check-in (5:00 PM)	Slack
Tuesday	10:00 - 18:00	------	Slack
Wednesday	10:00 - 18:00	Scrum Check-in (5:00 PM)	Slack
Thursday	10:00 - 18:00	Team Weekly Meeting (4:00 PM)	Slack, Zoom
Friday	10:00 - 18:00	Scrum Check-in (5:00 PM), GSoC Happy Hour (5:00 PM)	Slack, Zoom
Saturday	14:00 - 15:00	------	Slack
Sunday	14:00 - 15:00	------	Slack

Short Bio#

I'm an Android Developer and MSc student from Portugal. I'm in the final year of my Master's degree in Telecommunications and Informatics Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico. I'm mostly interested in Android development, since 2016 when I started working on it. I really like to explore ideas and build projects from an idea into a final product.

Profile Links#

Weekly Updates#

You can find my updates here: Weekly Blog post and report status links, Scrum Check-ins, PRs sent.

Final Demo and Report#

You can find...

Weekly Status Report for Week 1#

What have you accomplished this week (list specific items accomplished)?

Finished issue #3 - add .gitignore file
Attended Mentorship Weekly Meeting
Studied flask materials provided by my mentor and built sample project using Flask-RESTPlus
Attended GSoC Happy Hour
Created labels for mentorship-backend repository
Started working on User Registration API

What issues or roadblocks have you encountered this week?

Problems with PC.
Thesis reunion and pending work.
Lack of experience with backend development with Flask.

Have they been resolved, and if so, how?

The PC is fixed.
I’m still a newbie at backend development with flask, but I’m picking up.

Do any of the issues or roadblocks still exist and what steps have been taken to resolve them?

Thesis reunion will still happen once a week, and I’ll have to work a bit more to prepare for Thesis preparation. To resolve this, I will continue to follow the action items by order and hope to pick up with the schedule in the buffer time defined in the timeline.

Is further assistance necessary to resolve existing issues?

One working session with my mentor to get a kick start with the framework.

What do you plan to accomplish next week?

Finish this week’s issues, and complete at least 1 issue from the next week

How does your progress compare to your project schedule?

I’m late in the schedule, according to the action items proposed on the timeline for 1º week.

Blog post for Week 1: Google Summer of Code | Coding Period | Week 1

Weekly Status Report for Week 2#

What have you accomplished this week (list specific items accomplished)?

Submitted PR with these features:

Completed User actions endpoint
User authentication to restrict API
First User is an admin automatically
Admin user can assign new admins POST /admin/new
User can update its profile -> PUT /user
Change Password feature in PUT /user/change_password
Get all verified users with GET users/verified
Login with {username, email}+password with POST /auth
User registration in POST /register endpoint
List all users with GET /users
Published and shared Blog post for Week 1
Attended Project Weekly Meeting
Shared updates from the project with the community

What issues or roadblocks have you encountered this week?

Thesis reunion and pending work.
Lack of experience with backend development and testing with Flask.

Have they been resolved, and if so, how?

No. Although, I’m feeling more comfortable with developing with flask.

Do any of the issues or roadblocks still exist and what steps have been taken to resolve them?

Thesis work will continue until the first week of June.
I’ve been testing with Postman, but I need to have software tests. I’m still searching for ways to test the REST API, in a modular way (e.g.: test DAO independently of testing database model, ...)

Is further assistance necessary to resolve existing issues?

N/A

What do you plan to accomplish next week?

Complete Email verification feature.
Have some test coverage.
Start Mentorship Relation feature.

How does your progress compare to your project schedule?

Late on Email verification. On time with everything else.

Blog post for Week 2: Google Summer of Code | Coding Period | Week 2

Weekly Status Report for Week 3#

What have you accomplished this week (list specific items accomplished)?

Added initial tests #16
Fixed Swagger and Postman documentation #20
Fixed PR template #27
Had 1:1 with Murad, Dilushi and May
Created issues for bug fixes and small features #17, #18, #19, #21, #22, #23
Study ways to implement email verification

What issues or roadblocks have you encountered this week?

Unable to test API resources, probably because of app structure
Squashing commits
Thesis

Have they been resolved, and if so, how?

For tests, not yet.
For squashing commits, had help from Dilushi.
Regarding Thesis, not yet.

Do any of the issues or roadblocks still exist and what steps have been taken to resolve them?

I’m still studying about it tests
Thesis work will end next week

Is further assistance necessary to resolve existing issues?

N/A

What do you plan to accomplish next week?

Submit PR for email verification API
Submit PR for mentorship relation API
Setup support for environment variables

How does your progress compare to your project schedule?

Late on email verification and mentorship relation

Blog post for Week : Google Summer of Code | Coding Period | Week 3

Weekly Status Report for Week 4#

What have you accomplished this week (list specific items accomplished)?

Created issues reported by Murad (#33, #34, #35)
Solved above issues
Created tests for app configurations (#37)
Attended project weekly
Reviewed Mentorship Relation feature in project weekly meeting
Created issue for sending the expiry date on Login response #39

What issues or roadblocks have you encountered this week?

Thesis final presentation
API Resources Testing

Have they been resolved, and if so, how?

Yes, it is presented!
No

Do any of the issues or roadblocks still exist and what steps have been taken to resolve them?

N/A
I’m still studying about it tests, planning to have a working session with Murad

Is further assistance necessary to resolve existing issues?

N/A

What do you plan to accomplish next week?

Fill 1st Evaluations
Complete Mentorship Relation feature
Have tests for API resources
Demo Mentorship System Backend in Community Open Session
[stretch goal] Do email verification

How does your progress compare to your project schedule?

Late on email verification.

Blog post for Week: Google Summer of Code | Coding Period | Week 4

Weekly Status Report for Week 5#

What have you accomplished this week (list specific items accomplished)?

Had 1:1 meeting with May
Started working on mentorship send/listing request feature
Had 1:1 meeting with Dilushi
Attended Project weekly and clarified doubts about the database model and main features of the system
Submitted PR #47 for sending a request (issue #10) and getting all mentorship requests (issue #46)
Created new issues from bugs and feature clarification (#48, #49 and #50)

What issues or roadblocks have you encountered this week?

Understand Mentorship System complex features and database model

Have they been resolved, and if so, how?

Yes, this was clarified in the project weekly. To have a minimum viable product in the end of this program, we simplified some features

Do any of the issues or roadblocks still exist and what steps have been taken to resolve them?

Is further assistance necessary to resolve existing issues?

N/A

What do you plan to accomplish next week?

Complete Mentorship Relation related features (send, accept, reject, cancel requests)
Setup issues for the second phase of the coding period
Continue working on email verification feature

How does your progress compare to your project schedule?

Late on mentorship feature, email verification

Blog post for Week: Google Summer of Code | Coding Period | Week 5

Weekly Status Report for Week 6#

What have you accomplished this week (list specific items accomplished)?

Submitted PR #41 to add support for using environment variables
Submitted PR #53 for email verification - issues #7, #5 (need to fix according to the weekly meeting)
Submitted PR #54 for creating the API to remove an Admin user - issue #17 (fixed logic according to the meeting)
Created issue #52 to update restricted APIs to verify is user has email verified
Organized issues on Zenhub according to dependant PRs and Issues
Attended project weekly meeting, clarified some doubts

What issues or roadblocks have you encountered this week?

Thesis document fixes

Have they been resolved, and if so, how?

Yes, they’re done

Do any of the issues or roadblocks still exist and what steps have been taken to resolve them?

Is further assistance necessary to resolve existing issues?

N/A

What do you plan to accomplish next week?

Have completed accept/reject/cancel/complete
Deploy Backend
Share the deployed backend update with the community and ask for feedback and testing
Refactor app to be able to test the API
[stretch goal dependent on the stability of backend] Start working on Android Application

How does your progress compare to your project schedule?

I’m on time with the backend

Blog post for Week: Google Summer of Code | Coding Period | Week 6

Weekly Status Report for Week 7#

What have you accomplished this week (list specific items accomplished)?

Had a 1:1 with Murad and another 1:1 with Dilushi
Submitted PR #57 for applying the Application Factory pattern (important for testing the REST API services) issue #55 (merged)
Submitted PR #58 for accepting mentorship relation API (merged)
Submitted PR #62 for reject a mentorship request API (merged)
Submitted PR #61 for cancel a mentorship request API (merged)
Submitted PR #59 to update PR template, to update requirements.txt (merged)
Finished email verification feature (PR #53)
Submitted PR #64 for flask-jwt-extended integration
Wrote blog post about mentorship system (motivation & about)
Started working on a cron job to complete a mentorship relation
Started working on exporting automatically generated postman.json and swagger.json
Created issues to use flask-jwt-extended instead of flask-jwt
Attended project weekly (cleared features logic doubts)
Created issues #66 to eventually add an extra field to explain reasoning for mentorship cancellation
Created issue #65 for a delete mentorship request API

What issues or roadblocks have you encountered this week?

Application factory pattern PR merge

Have they been resolved, and if so, how?

Yes, it has been merged and I can now do API testing :D

Do any of the issues or roadblocks still exist and what steps have been taken to resolve them?

No :D

Is further assistance necessary to resolve existing issues?

No!

What do you plan to accomplish next week?

TBD

How does your progress compare to your project schedule?

More productive than other weeks. Still on backend

Blog post for Week: Google Summer of Code | Coding Period | Week 7

Weekly Status Report for Week 8#

What have you accomplished this week (list specific items accomplished)?

Submitted PR #73 for API to delete a mentorship request
Submitted PR #74 for Get all mentorship requests API
Submitted PR #75 to restrict GET /users API to authenticated users
Submitted PR #79 with cron job to complete mentorship relation
Attended Project Weekly
Made Demo and presented Mentorship Systems backend on Community Open Session
Got Mentorship System by Systers blog post published on Systers Open Source Medium publication
Worked with Murad to solve server deployment issues
Defined minimum features for the minimum functional product

What issues or roadblocks have you encountered this week?

Cron job to complete mentorship relations
Server deployed was failing to receive authorization header

Have they been resolved, and if so, how?

Yes, its done, I tested interval and cron schedulers until I saw this working
Yas! I worked with Murad to solve this issue

Do any of the issues or roadblocks still exist and what steps have been taken to resolve them?

Is further assistance necessary to resolve existing issues?

What do you plan to accomplish next week?

Have new wireframe for the minimum functional product
Start working on the android app
Improve overall Github documentation to guide potential contributors
Decide on issues for newcomers, quality assurance (e.g.: manual and coding testing) with Dilushi

How does your progress compare to your project schedule?

On time regarding finishing the backend and heading towards the android app

Blog post for Week: Google Summer of Code | Coding Period | Week 8

Weekly Status Report for Week 9#

What have you accomplished this week (list specific items accomplished)?

Created Quality Assurance Google Docs to guide contributors to test the backend
Invited newcomers to test the backend and provided documentation for that
Defined minimum features and timeline for phase 3
Had 1:1s with May, Murad and Dilushi
Created the high fidelity UI prototype (created issue #1 for this on systers/mentorship-android repo)
Studied Material Design for the wireframe
Fixed bug from issue #84, PR #85
Looked into Android architecture design patterns
Created with Dilushi the first issue #86 regarding Quality Assurance for the backend
Attended project weekly meeting
Created issue and discussed Tasks feature in project meeting
Reserved time of the week (available on Google Calendar) and became available to answer any questions from newcomers (AMA - Ask Me Anything sessions)

What issues or roadblocks have you encountered this week?

Have they been resolved, and if so, how?

N/A

Do any of the issues or roadblocks still exist and what steps have been taken to resolve them?

N/A

Is further assistance necessary to resolve existing issues?

N/A

What do you plan to accomplish next week?

Improve UI according to feedback given by the community
Study about Clean architecture
Finish Tasks feature
Attend Project Weekly meeting
Start User arc feature in Android application
Host more AMA sessions for newcomers
Create issues for newcomers (stretch goal)

How does your progress compare to your project schedule?

On time to do the Android app!

Blog post for Week: Google Summer of Code | Coding Period | Week 9

Weekly Status Report for Week 10#

What have you accomplished this week (list specific items accomplished)?

Hosted more AMA sessions
Had first 1:1 with Roopal, my new mentor and a 1:1 with Murad
Studied Android Architectures
Worked on Tasks feature
Fixed merge conflict of PRs #90 and #85 which are now merged
Created issue #94 and submitted PR #95 to solve user registration data validation
Submitted PR #89 imports database URI from environment variables (persistence to DB)
Submitted PR #90 that adds organization field to User (occupation was already there)
Reviewed PR #105 regarding change password request data validation

What issues or roadblocks have you encountered this week?

Learning Clean architecture

Have they been resolved, and if so, how?

Yes, I moved to learn another Architecture, MVVM, which seems less complex for a project being built from scratch. Clean architecture would add unnecessary complexity for this app.

Do any of the issues or roadblocks still exist and what steps have been taken to resolve them?

Is further assistance necessary to resolve existing issues?

What do you plan to accomplish next week?

Have User arc completed
Start Mentorship Relation arc
Fix more bugs found from the Backend
Host more AMA sessions
Present a Demo of Phase I & II

How does your progress compare to your project schedule?

Late on the Mobile app development, should have started the User arc already

Blog post for Week: Google Summer of Code | Coding Period | Week 10

Weekly Status Report for Week 11#

What have you accomplished this week (list specific items accomplished)?

Had 1:1s: 1 w/ May, 3 w/ Murad, 1 w/ Dilushi
Hosted AMA session for newcomers 3 Created issues on systers/mentorship-backend -> #115, #116
Created issues on systers/mentorship-android -> #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #11
Created “How to Contribute” page on Backend repository Wiki and created Wiki on systers/mentorship-android
Reported bug #114, #120 and docs issue #120 on #sysbot
Attended Project Weekly
Exported UI screens from JustInMind UI prototype and saved them on GSoC18 folder
Presented for Demo Phase I & II
Shared in the community the Tasks feature logic decisions and potential scalability issue (which I researched a solution for)
Add some markdown tables with some test cases on Quality Assurance issues
Share the UI feedback Google Docs document for Q&A
Updated the UI prototype in JustInMind tool and update the Feedback Google Docs
Submitted PR #107 to solve issue #97 (already fixed merge conflicts)
Had 1:1 Sammy about GitHub workflow with Sysbot and its commands

What issues or roadblocks have you encountered this week?

Understanding RxJava, Android Architecture components, and best practises
Tasks feature implementation
Testing on Android

Have they been resolved, and if so, how?

Mildly
No
No

Do any of the issues or roadblocks still exist and what steps have been taken to resolve them?

Sort of, since I’m still learning this
Yes it still exists, thinking of doing a meeting to talk about this
Yes, I’ll search about this, and check how it’s being done on Systers Android apps

Is further assistance necessary to resolve existing issues?

No, because I already got this week from Murad
Meet with mentors about this
Will research about this

What do you plan to accomplish next week?

Complete User arc and Mentorship and start Tasks arc
Fix some bugs of Backend
Start Tasks arc
Manage more issues
Attend Project Weekly
Host more AMA sessions

How does your progress compare to your project schedule?

Late on the Android application

Blog post for Week: Google Summer of Code | Coding Period | Week 11

Weekly Status Report for Week 12#

What have you accomplished this week (list specific items accomplished)?

Had 1:1 with Murad (discussed best practices for Android)
Created .svg file of Current Relation icon
Added Travis CI support to Android repository
Submit PR #17 with my initial code (register, login, bottom nav)
List Item UI of All Members list with ConstraintLayout (on my fork only)
My Profile Screen UI with ConstraintLayout (on my fork only)
Hosted AMA sessions
Attended project weekly
Created issues important for Android application #121 and #120 on Backend
Solved issue #121 from backend (waiting on issue to be approved)

What issues or roadblocks have you encountered this week?

Tasks scalability issue still has to be solved
First PR took some time to be merged since is was the base for the authenticated fragments and Codacy alerted about some issues with the code and travis CI had to be set

Have they been resolved, and if so, how?

No
Yes, it was merged, Codacy warnings were fixed, and travis CI integrated

Do any of the issues or roadblocks still exist and what steps have been taken to resolve them?

Is further assistance necessary to resolve existing issues?

Yes, need to have a discussion with mentors

What do you plan to accomplish next week?

Complete User and MentorshipRelation arc
Decide on Tasks scalability issue
Off-board the project

How does your progress compare to your project schedule?

Late on the Android application

Blog post for Week: Google Summer of Code | Coding Period | Week 12

Weekly Status Report for Week 13 [Optional]#

What have you accomplished this week (list specific items accomplished)?

Submitted PR #123 for restructuring MentorshipRelation response to include Name (backend)
Submit PR for listing Members Screen and Check others’ profiles (android)
Had 1:1 with May
Had 2 1:1s with Murad
[Backend] Solve issue #124 on backend and sent PR #126
Attended Weekly Meeting
Removed “Program: GSoC” labels and added “Status: Available” to issues not completed during the program and ready to be worked by any contributor
Created Wiki page with references to UI Design on systers/mentorship-android repo
Created Wiki pages to explain a mentorship relation stages and states on systers/mentorship-android and systers/mentorship-backend repo
[Android] Submit PR for Requests Screen
Presented Final Demo
Finished GSoC Final Report
[Backend] Submitted Tasks feature
Submitted Final Evaluations
Submitted PR for README
Started improving GitHub Wiki documentation

What issues or roadblocks have you encountered this week?

Tasks scalability issue
Final Demo

Have they been resolved, and if so, how?

Yes its done!
Yes, its done!

Do any of the issues or roadblocks still exist and what steps have been taken to resolve them?

Is further assistance necessary to resolve existing issues?

N/A

What do you plan to accomplish next week?

Help newcomers start working on issues and make the project welcome to everyone

How does your progress compare to your project schedule?

Ready to be worked on and welcome contributors!

Final Blog post: Google Summer of Code final remarks