Weekly reports of progress made for the project.

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Community Bonding Period

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Week 1 (Community Bonding) | April 22 - April 29

• Create Project : T133665 ( Pywikibot-Thanks )
• Create Community bonding evaluation subtask: T133666
• Create Weekly Reports Subtask: T133667

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Week 2 (Community Bonding) | April 29 - May 5

Inactive
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Week 3 (Community Bonding) | May 5 - May 12

• Set-up blog for monitoring progress: http://bhyrava.me/code

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Week 4 (Community Bonding) | May 12 - May 19

• Create Subtasks for the Project (first three for now): T135409 T135411 T135413
• Read Documentation on Pywikibot: See my notes (still being updated) here.
• Reported Bug T135233
• Code-Reviewed others' patches - see this.
• Submitted Patches to Changes 288871
• See my Mediawiki and Commons edits here and here.
• Created Bonding Report Task T135404
• Wrote blog post for Community Bonding - read here.
• First Mentor Meet at #gsoc-thanks on IRC
• Send mail on wikitech-l introducing myself.
• Gain some experience with PAWS. See my edits here.
• Run Pywikibot from local system.
• Create my Tool Labs instance.
• Write my own test script for Pywikibot
• Read up documentation on Thanks
• Look at Pywikibot-Flow for pointers

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Wrap-Up for Community Bonding | May 19 - May 22

• Finish all objectives for the Community Bonding Period

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Coding Period | Till Mid-Term Evaluations

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Week 1 | May 23 - May 29

• Meeting 3 - May 27th | T136542
• Studied and cleared doubts about basic.py and weblinkchecker.py.
• Studied and asked doubts about unit tests.
• Submit rough design for methods as mentioned on the corresponding Phab task.
• New blog post on building a bot here.

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Week 2 | May 30 - June 5th

• Meeting 4 - 3rd June | T136892
• Prototype design improved at T136892#2374804
• Created a proof of design which could thank a revision. P3234
• Read tests/README.rst and tests/add_text_tests.py.

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Week 3 | June 6th - June 13th

• Meeting 5 - 10th June | T137462
• Wrote first draft of unit tests for thanks.py here.
• Added API calls through site.py, and improved the proof of concept.
• Added User.thanks_enabled property to site.py
• Improved testing in thanks_tests.py using logevents().
• Blog post on Subtask I here.

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Week 4 | June 14th - June 21st

• Meeting 6 - 15th June | T137836
• Meeting 7 - 17th June | T138056
• Meeting 8 - 20th June | T138164
• Investigated into MediaWiki API access for thanks preferences for a User.
• Improved all code for T135409 according to meeting discussions.
• Accounted for User.thanks_enabled in thanks_tests.py before thanking.
• Submitted first patchset for T135409: 294901
• Wrote proof of design for thanking flow posts. P3256 P3257
• Wrote flow_thanks and corresponding flow_thanks_tests
• Checked if site.py ensures that two need_extensions can co-exist.
• Submitted first patchset for T135411: 295132
• Blog post on Subtask II here.

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Week 5 | June 21st - June 27th

• Meeting 9 - 24th June | T138531
• Improved 294901 and 295132 in response to code review.
• Both patches pass with a +2 on jenkins
• Final blog post before mid terms, on what I've learned along the way here.
• Updated weekly reports.
• Submitted mid-term evaluation form.
• Changes pushed to local repository.