GSOC 2025 Participation Discussion

[AceTheCreator]

Happy New Year, Everyone! 🎉

I’m excited to kick off the discussion about our participation in Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2025! After our successful debut as a standalone organization last year, I’m excited to see what we can achieve together this year.

In case you missed it, you can read all about our amazing experience in GSoC 2024 here

Where Things Stand Now

While we’re still waiting for Google to announce GSoC 2025, it’s a good time to start planning our involvement.

Last year, Google announced the program a bit later than usual, so there’s a chance we’ll hear more soon. Regardless, it’s always better to be prepared!

Let’s brainstorm project ideas, and make sure we’re ready to go when the announcement comes 🚀

Collecting Project Idea Proposals

One of the most important steps in our GSoC preparation is identifying exciting and impactful project ideas for contributors to work on. If you have any ideas, here’s how you can contribute. Share your project idea describing:

• What is the issue your project idea addresses?
• What should the contributor build or improve?
• How will this benefit AsyncAPI and its community?
• Is the project suitable for a beginner, intermediate, or advanced contributor?
• What is the estimate hours for project completion?

You can submit your project ideas proposals either as reply to this Disscussion, a seperate GitHub Discussion or GitHub Issue in AsyncAPI GitHub organization.

Don’t worry about having a fully detailed proposal, we’ll help refine the ideas together because this is a collaborative process, and even small ideas can lead to big impacts, so feel free to share!

Interested in Mentoring?

Becoming a GSoC mentor with AsyncAPI is a rewarding experience and comes with plenty of benefits, including:

• Contributing to impactful open-source work.
• Growing your own skills while helping others.
• Building meaningful connections with contributors.
• AsyncAPI exclusive swags 😜

If you’d like to participate as a mentor this year, please let us know by replying in this discussion thread.

How to connect with us

• Join our Slack workspace. Just make sure to follow our code of conduct.
• Join the dedicated Mentorship channel #mentorship that we will use to coordinate all mentorship programs at AsyncAPI

Let’s make GSoC 2025 another success story for AsyncAPI! 🚀

[AayushSaini101]

Project Idea for the Asyncapi CLI: "Introducing new Features and updating CLI"

• Testing: Currently, running test cases locally is challenging due to outdated dependencies. We need to update these dependencies to enable proper debugging and test execution.
• Publish and Sync: We need to provide the ability to publish and sync AsyncAPI files with remote repositories, addressing a long-standing need within the community. This ties in with Generator doesn't pull template from private repo generator#538.
• Custom Validation: Implementing the ability to validate an AsyncAPI file against custom spectral rules would empower developers to enforce their own standards.
• New Command to inspect the Asyncapi Document [FEATURE] New Command to inspect the Asyncapi Document  cli#1581
• CLI installation takes a lot of time [ https://github.com/[BUG] CLI installation takes a lot of time cli#1387 Research work ]

The benefit of this project: The CLI is a critical tool within the AsyncAPI community, boasting a large number of downloads and an active user base. To maintain its relevance and usability, we need to continuously update it with new features, bug fixes, and improvements that make it more user-friendly and powerful.

Project Strength: In this discussion cycle

@Souvikns @Shurtu-gal @Amzani cc: @AceTheCreator

[AayushSaini101]

Project Idea 2: Create a Java parser wrapper

Implement a Java wrapper of the Go parser, by using the C shared object resulting from the compilation here: https://github.com/asyncapi/parser/blob/master/compile.sh.

It should be fairly straightforward to code but we need to make sure we understand how to compile C for different platforms and architectures.

References

1. https://gist.github.com/steeve/6905542#gistcomment-1988684
2. https://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/ehchua/programming/java/JavaNativeInterface.html

[mohdjami]

@AayushSaini101, these Project ideas sounds amazing, I appreciate the efforts, will research and go through them. Apart from that I'd love to see some projects/issues in Javascript/Typescript too. Looking forward to it.

[Rohanraj123]

1. Writing go parser
2. Generating C shared objects.
3. Creating Java class for JNI interaction.

Problem would be : compilation for linux : .so for windows .dll and for max .dylib
We need to make sure using gcc for linux and windows and clang for windows. Also passing data between java, go and C can leak data.
These are some problem I can see in this project from seeing it from above. It might also create an issue while memory management and stuff.

I just want to ask one thing. Is there any tools or frameworks suggested for JNI interaction testing. And after that I would love to contribute to this project. I have proficiency in java and golang. Can be visible on github.

[IITI-tushar]

Hi @AceTheCreator @AayushSaini101,

I am interested in working with AsyncAPI as a GSoC contributor. If possible, could you please guide me on how I can maximize my chances of getting selected or provide any tips that might help?

It’s difficult to find active issues and get assigned to them. If there are any ongoing projects, I am willing to contribute as a volunteer.

Good luck with GSoC 2025!

[harshita9104]

Hello @AceTheCreator , @AayushSaini101
I hope this message finds you well, Could you please guide on which project to start working on for GSOC 2025
Thank you.

[Valley-15]

Hello @AceTheCreator @AayushSaini101 , I am an opensource web developer interested to contribute in AsyncApI, could you send contribution guide

[Rohanraj123]

Integration of AsyncApi with Kubernetes.
A tool built in Golang to deploy and manage AsyncAPI-defined services on Kubernetes.
It will help in simplifying the deployment of event-driven systems in Kubernetes.

Goal is to build a Golang tool that can deploy and manage AsyncAPI-defined services on Kubernetes. This tool would automate the generation of Kubernetes manifests (such as Deployments, Services) from AsyncAPI specs, configure messaging systems like Kafka or RabbitMQ, and offer observability features for deployed services.

I would love to hear suggestions on this idea. Also if selected then I would love to work on this idea as well.

[Manancode]

My Idea : Cross-Protocol Message Testing Framework

Currently, users face challenges when testing applications that use multiple messaging protocols (like Kafka, WebSocket, MQTT) together. There's no unified way to test message flows across these different protocols, validate messages, or visualize the entire system working together

We can Build a comprehensive testing framework that includes:

• A unified testing interface for multiple protocols
• Mock servers for each supported protocol
• Automated test case generation from AsyncAPI specifications
• A web-based dashboard for visualizing message flows and test results
• Test report generation
• Protocol-specific validation rules

This framework will:

• Save developers significant time by enabling testing of complex flows in one place
• Reduce errors by providing comprehensive testing across protocols
• Make it easier to debug issues with real-time visualization
• Help teams ensure their message-based systems work correctly
• Improve the quality of event-driven applications

We can use Glee to create mock servers for Kafka, MQTT, WebSocket, and more. It can help in simulating real-time message flows.

would love to discuss and take more inputs regarding this from the mentors
@AceTheCreator

[AayushSaini101]

Project Idea: New Template Java+Quarkus template for the Asyncapi Generator

I want to propose a new idea for a template that is Java+Quarkus. Quarkus is a very popular and open-source framework as well as very fast-growing in the cloud native community, I also used it in my company,

Around the world, in 2024, over 1334 companies started using Quarkus https://6sense.com/tech/other-dev-tools/quarkus-market-share.

Understanding template: https://www.asyncapi.com/docs/tools/generator/template