Google Summer of Code Proposals 2023

Intro

We from the Sw360 project would like to apply for GSoC. Please see two main resources for finding out more about Sw360:

• https://www.eclipse.org/sw360/
• https://github.com/eclipse/sw360/wiki

Meetings: Checkout the Meetings table

Interested in Application?

If you are interested in an application - great! We encourage your application. So the question is how to get started with the topic, just a few points:

• Check https://www.eclipse.org/sw360/ and development and deployment section.
• Try to install sw360 from source or your can try the Docker
• Read the proposed topics
• Use the mailing list sw360-dev@eclipse.org or contact proposed mentors for further steps
• Slack invite link
• GitHub discussion

Mentors

Interested in becoming a mentor? Please reach out to us!

Topic Proposals

Please reach out to us to add more proposals for GSoC 2023.

Currently, discussion happening on https://github.com/eclipse/sw360/discussions/1818

Topic Proposals from 2023

1. Support CycloneDX report
2. Rest API and UI Improvement for sw360 project
3. Improving automation with fossology

Support CycloneDX report

Goal: Creating CycloneDX reports along with SPDX and other formats

CycloneDX is another popular format for generating SBOMs. Having SW360 import reports in CycloneDX along with SPDX will enable integration with more tools.

Links:

• https://github.com/CycloneDX/cyclonedx-core-java
• https://cyclonedx.org/

Category	Rating
Low Hanging Fruit	**
Risk/Exploratory	*
Fun/Periphial	**
Core Development	*
Project Infrastructure	**
Project size	Large
Preferred contributor	Student/Professional

Rest API and UI Improvement for sw360 project

Goal: Creating and extending existing endpoints to support sw360 New UI based on react.

SW360 uses Liferay as a frontend, we are currently looking for a new UI for sw360 based on react

Links:

• https://github.com/eclipse/sw360/issues/1826

Category	Rating
Low Hanging Fruit	-
Risk/Exploratory	*
Fun/Periphial	***
Core Development	***
Project Infrastructure	**
Project size	Large
Preferred contributor	Student/Professional

Improving automation with fossology

Goal: Extending the existing sw360-fossology automation so that we can automate the scanning and uploading fossology generated report seamlessly.

Category	Rating
Low Hanging Fruit	-
Risk/Exploratory	*
Fun/Periphial	***
Core Development	***
Project Infrastructure	**
Project size	Large
Preferred contributor	Student/Professional

GSOC 2023 Meetings Table

To coordinate work, we have had regular meetings for the different topics open for the community.

Topic(s)	Timings	Meeting link	ICS
General Meeting	TBD	TBD
-	-	-	-
Project 1	TBD	TBD