GSoC 2010/Projects/Extending Shepherd

Extending Shepherd - GSoC 2010 Project

• Student: Linus Wallgren (ecksun) , email: linus dot wallgren at gmail dot com
• Mentor: Attila Csipa (achipa)
• Project Status: accepted, in development
• Repository:
  • http://gitorious.org/~ecksun/shepherd/shepherd-sandbox
• Status updates:
  • http://ecksun.com/blog/?tag=maemo

Project summary

Shepherd is an advanced scheduler that can do a wide variety of tasks depending on a number of triggers.

The project will aim to improve on the capabilities of Shepherd. I plan to add more ways of triggering an action and more actions to be taken when the triggers is meet.

Progress

I have planned to write a couple of plug-ins for shepherd as well as to get the core and GUI in working order.

Name	Progress	Category	Description
WLAN SSID	90%	Trigger	Check if a WLAN SSID is nearby
Location	45%	Trigger	Check if the device is in a certain location by using the GPS and Cellular towers
Calendar	90%	Trigger	Check if certain events are happening
Change profile	90%	Action
Turn Radio on/off	50%	Action	Turn both WLAN and 3G on/off
Change Telepathy status	0%	Action
Secure device	90%	Action	Lock the device in the same way as the menu option
Display a notification	90%	Action
Core	~50%	Shepherd	Finish the core
GUI	5%	Shepherd	Finish the GUI

The part that is missing from most of the plug-ins is to adopt it to the shepherds current API, the actual functionality is already there.