Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:20:51 -0400 From: Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org> To: Justin Edward Muniz <justin.muniz@maine.edu> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GSOC: Qt front-ends Message-ID: <60A4F968-60A4-4C71-AD53-BA1BC6CBAB5F@longcount.org> In-Reply-To: <CA%2BnOTRiuJrVB_FSX2U18yd4ETD6mD004Mb%2BAh0Q-evofsqirnw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BnOTRiuJrVB_FSX2U18yd4ETD6mD004Mb%2BAh0Q-evofsqirnw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Apr 21, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Justin Edward Muniz <justin.muniz@maine.edu> wr= ote: > Hello everyone once again, >=20 > I decided to split this from my previous thread because the nature of > my questions has changed. I benefited from the last thread, and I am > grateful to those who responded to it. >=20 > For me Google Summer of Code is a big opportunity, and my interest in > contributing to the open source community is fairly limited to FreeBSD for= > many reasons. I know that my application may have a better chance of being= > approved if I have a mentor to help me with my endeavors. >=20 > I currently have three project ideas in mind; however I need to > understand which one would be the most beneficial, and try to find a > mentor, before I create my proposal. Eventually I would like to develop > each application and release them along with a meta-package that comprises= > of them all. For now, I need to focus on just one of the three. >=20 > Originally I was interested in developing a Qt front-end for > freebsd-update; indeed most of my research has been for that project. > However, I am also interested in furthering kports -- which seems to be > notoriously buggy, has broken package functionality, and is a mammoth of a= n > application; the last development for kports was in 2009. I also am > interested in developing a graphical application to customize the FreeBSD > kernel. >=20 > I have compiled a list of features that I would like to concentrate on= > for each project. Some of the features are far less important than others,= > so my actual application may omit some of them, or consider them optional.= > If it would be appropriate I will certainly share my lists, but since the > lists are long I don't want to spam the mailing-list. I am new to this > community after all! >=20 > If anyone is interested in discussing these possibilities or just one > of them in particular, I will greatly appreciate any advice, insight, > concerns, criticism, or ideas. Ideally I am also looking to talk with > anyone who might be interested in mentoring my Google Summer of Code > project. >=20 > Justin Muniz > ______________________________ Justin I say stick to FreeBSD-update . My reason is, as Pkgng becomes more p= opular , a front end for ports will be less useful as binary packages become= more popular . Kports is a monster program , you should set a reasonable go= al ,and target dates; which may be hard with a cleanup project . Also a up= date notifier for kde that handles FreeBSD update would be very useful .=20 My 2cents . --- Mark saad | mark.saad@longcount.org
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