Re: [gentoo-soc] Welcome!

[Theo Chatzimichos]

On Monday, June 17, 2013 12:37:24 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> Welcome to Gentoo's edition of the Google Summer of Code! We hope you've
> been in touch with your mentor and are already comfortable with the
> tools you need, so you can begin writing code today.

Welcome students from me as well! Hope it's going to be a great and productive 
summer.

I'll be your infra contact. I'll try to respond quickly to your requests, 
since I understand that the GSoC timeline is pressing.

Feel free to contact me in IRC (tampakrap @ Freenode), mail or bug report. A 
few additional details/corrections on what Donnie wrote:

> Blogs
> -----
> We
> also highly recommend that you get a blog for yourself (if you don't
> already have one), and use it to write anything relevant to your project
> under a category such as "gsoc2013" or "gentoo." We will aggregate your
> blogs on our Planet for the entire Gentoo community to read. You can
> contact planet@g.o about getting a blog — do mention that you are
> a GSoC student.

To request a Gentoo hosted blog, or to request to add your blog on 
planet.gentoo.org please read the instructions here (and either file a bug as 
they mention or contact me directly): 
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/planet/#doc_chap5

> Code Management
> ===============
> You and your mentor should contact Theo Chatzimichos
> (tampakrap@g.o) about getting repositories set up or gaining
> access to existing repositories, if you haven't already done so.

We provide only Git repositories nowadays, either at git.overlays.gentoo.org 
or under our Github Gentoo organization. I will need the following 
information:
- for git.overlays.gentoo.org hosted overlay:
  - public ssh key
  - name of the repository
  - a short description
  - other possible committers
- for Github hosted overlay under the Gentoo org:
  - your github profile URL
  - name of the repository

Either contact me directly, or file a bug (Product: Gentoo Infrastructure, 
Component: Gentoo Overlays)

> Project Websites
> ================
>
> You must have a centralized, permanent location for information about
> you and your project that is hosted by Gentoo (unless you're working on
> an existing project hosted elsewhere). If you're working on an
> established codebase like Portage or Porthole, you can just use its
> existing infrastructure. Otherwise, Trac is an ideal way to fulfill this
> requirement.
>
> We are happy to set up Trac instances for your project, so it has an
> online home where people can go to learn more about it. This will
> provide you with a homepage, a wiki, a timeline, and possibly
> integration with your source code.
>
> To have Trac set up, contact Theo Chatzimichos (tampakrap@g.o)
> with details about your project. The Trac instance should have the same
> name as your repository, if possible. Discuss with your mentor whether
> Trac is something you need.

Our trac instances are going away slowly for various reasons, so please create 
a page under http://wiki.gentoo.org instead to use as your project website.

> Shell Access
> ============
>
> As a GSoC student with Gentoo, you get access to one of our shell
> servers. This is an ideal place to run an IRC client like irssi coupled
> with screen, so that you are always available on IRC and can reconnect
> from anywhere. Talk to your mentor about this, if you aren't already set
> up.

We have a box where we grand students shell accounts, contact me as well to 
get access there. In case you need any services set up in the box, let me 
know. Either contact me directly, or file a bug (Product: Gentoo 
Infrastructure, Component: Other).

As a side note, in the following days I'm going to set up a virtual machine as 
well, where students will be granded root access so they can work in chroots 
and set up their services by themselves. Will let you know when this will be 
up.

> We're looking forward to a great summer with all of you, and we hope
> that all your projects are successful. Please don't hesitate to use any
> of the mentioned communication channels if you have a question or doubt.
>
> Have a great summer!

Theo