Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2013 01:04:14 -0400 From: Justin Edward Muniz <jmuniz@FreeBSD.org> To: soc-status@freebsd.org Subject: Progress Report 1 Message-ID: <CA%2BnOTRjisCiCfRcgqceP6%2BaZJ-W_q5=7ROL0BoVxzhdyGChjXA@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello everyone, I have been working on the FreeBSD ports of PackageKit, Apper, and gnome-packagekit. More information about this project can be found at: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2013/pkgQtGtk After deliberation, it made sense to me to wait until after the week finished before reflecting on it. My efforts to present the community with valuable graphical user interfaces for pkgng has started with a lot of learning and skill building. I have been studying shell scripting, make files, and port development. My efforts have been concentrated in gaining an understanding of the upgrading process from old ports, as well as creating my PackageKit backend selection script. During the bonding period I was able to start my Wiki page as well as my repository. The repository is very useful: as I populated it with both preexisting and original content it helped me come up with a new testing plan. In the root directory of my repository I plan to create a Makefile to install specific ports that I am working on to a jail or prefix. This seems like the most convenient way to test these programs. My backend selection script, pk-setter, is coming along very well and is almost finished. The configuration option for selecting the default backend in PackageKit is the same when dealing with the latest code, or the version in ports; one pk-setter script works with both versions. I plan on making the code more robust and creating a graphical interface to manipulate the script, but only after the more important work is done. My plan for next week is to finish my research on pkgng as well as a patch to implement a pkgng backend in PackageKit 0.6.11. I would like to implement my new testing plan as well, so once the patch is created people can test it out with ease. I hope that user feedback will help create better code. Please look forward to updates to my code and Wiki pages. Justin Edward Muniz
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