From owner-freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Sat Mar 19 21:38:56 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-pkg@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D5A0AD6882 for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 21:38:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pfg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (unknown [127.0.1.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 021D62FB for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 21:38:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pfg@FreeBSD.org) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id F1EA9AD6881; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 21:38:55 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: pkg@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1884AD6880 for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 21:38:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pfg@FreeBSD.org) Received: from nm1-vm1.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com (nm1-vm1.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com [98.139.213.163]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AC2412FA for ; Sat, 19 Mar 2016 21:38:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pfg@FreeBSD.org) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s2048; t=1458423533; bh=4vOcUKxX1Qm/r6FaqZnN8RegBp9maGlqrhtS/dgrB5M=; h=Subject:To:References:From:Date:In-Reply-To:From:Subject; b=pYjAY+76EISuTxtVYMMdixpf+BbOMIlad6MLhE1BLfww0ig/LBpuK+YMuKJQooWUC2R1yUSpROpwHNNzdwf+bWrKyEAQYs/qZcRDCG0XZrDfAohGOk9s7FoFkV4GtkW1QAijz2KcgKmosqP1+BmEZmH4+j9vWEX4VibkjiYvzf1CClhjmMezGAyf8iW2L0i2aEwiYAdf0UABOXu4P4C9ZJKhyxJ0PSXmp/+Bo9bGvQcaLCdaRa5nzK5DUNPJYNTH96ST0ilIXayvaAcXkLWopBKIm3bf2DwFS7a9KVdkmGUOPSMqPCt7hvPT8L5db26VuZhTEB87fh/ZnqwpKVkktw== Received: from [98.139.215.143] by nm1.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Mar 2016 21:38:53 -0000 Received: from [98.139.211.198] by tm14.bullet.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Mar 2016 21:38:53 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp207.mail.bf1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 19 Mar 2016 21:38:53 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 785244.74442.bm@smtp207.mail.bf1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: 672wQhcVM1lP58DSDYS0JAAoNTzBWl6CS1M1FCoTlVRGeBi Xc2RjGQvxgZNa4cAs_.S2rs7oBYSQ08egysO.g1xl9wf4VIeietFgBfThIYX FZS4kjhNbIyk54L5aOjH7jL6BbqoNQSksDmTKS_y4Amrigd37V2VAFPEz9_A jPUVMlesWrmFimWIsjknOUCUW4UpZqheEyJ5ijvE9wmQJWxQLpFKTRLyrnD8 aBxzcPF0r5f3auUk.bPApXpQf2XYU_jP1aw8KWc54WAORP9nR9WsWQbAGLTi UjTdaBy5HNSLPj7DtFRnhRZBlZtpyvCxG_oRZIRuTnZaN3Tb3E.00KyIjcrc wvQPSumNUF80bCT4SpnxBY0ZwNG5iZE64eHlZZHsc8y419XMnwQ4vRaXfqtM 6SbfnSN3rUsRRAtNWxko.kOTuCXCh9SojGFAaJoxL.GbFbke_pvTEclAnsQ8 G9UvlI5Hepca8legiN3q.nTesNMDx8br7ITs5kWWjghchzm9IvyQUnM8djdk OTYqEJgfoojJscLx5_V3YrWeqcZXjMzyl X-Yahoo-SMTP: xcjD0guswBAZaPPIbxpWwLcp9Unf Subject: Re: GSoc 2016 Introduction To: Robin Guzniczak , pkg@FreeBSD.org References: <56EC0CBF.1080705@FreeBSD.org> <56ED9BC1.9040709@gmail.com> From: Pedro Giffuni Message-ID: <56EDC734.4010707@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 16:40:04 -0500 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56ED9BC1.9040709@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Binary package management and package tools discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 21:38:56 -0000 On 03/19/16 13:34, Robin Guzniczak wrote: > On 03/18/2016 10:12 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: >> Hello Robin; >> >> Thank you for introducing yourself[1] and for considering the >> "KDE front-end to the freebsd-update utility" project. >> >> I have been trying to think of a mentor but it is not easy to find. >> I have also been thinking that while freebsd-update remains an >> important and easy way to update FreeBSD, the technology will >> probably change when we move towards a packaged world in >> FreeBSD 11. It would probably be more interesting to have an >> enhanced graphical pkg[2] manager. >> >> Perhaps some pkg maintainer would be willing to mentor? >> >> [1] >> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?56E9A108.7030304 >> [2] >> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pkgng-intro.html > > Thank you very much for your interest. > > I agree with you, and I also think that a graphical pkg manager > would be more useful to the community. This is a very > interesting project for me and I would gladly work on it. > > I already started writing my draft proposal[1]. I am really > motivated in coding for FreeBSD this summer and I hope > that someone will be willing to mentor me. pkg is well > documented so I believe I will not need too much help. > Hmm ... I just noticed octopkg: https://octopkg.wordpress.com/ Which doesn't mean there is no space for competition (?). Pedro.