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Dear Gentoo community , |
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My Name is Gaurish Sharma & I would like to work idea of improving |
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Usability of Recruiting Webapp[1]. |
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First little about me, I am a student completing my post-grads in |
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Computer applications. I am a polyglot who can dabble C,C++,Java etc |
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as its a requirement of my course(if you disagree, check my course |
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content[2]). However, my main interest & passion is web development & |
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that's the main reason I taught myself ruby & then rails, even though |
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its not part of my course curriculum. so, I am a self taught web dev & |
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I want to work on recruiting Webapp as it aligns perfectly with my |
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interests. Further, my skillset matches the requirements do complete |
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this project. And I want to help linux grow, so want to help. Besides, |
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I am full time Linux convert from past 5years, currently running |
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archlinux which is similar to that of gentoo except arch can have |
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binary packages vs only source packages in gentoo. I know this because |
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have run gentoo in the past & I must tell you its a fine distro :) |
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Now, |
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I know its probably late date for application(I came to know about |
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gsoc just today :-( ). so without wasting any further time, I want to |
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ask you about requirements i.e what all work has to be done on |
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Recruiting Webapp. |
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From the ideas pag, I was able to gather following requirements |
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1) improved usability: |
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2) updating for Rails 3.0. |
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1) Usability: |
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a) As you know, there are major usability problems with the app. |
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example:- answering a question requires 4 separate screens. Select |
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Category -> Select Question -> Click Answer it(small link, hard to |
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miss) -> Create Answer. I think it can be done in just two |
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screens(Category & display question). |
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b) the User interface is old, dated & just boring. We need a fresh theme. |
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2) updating to Rails 3.0: |
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Sure, I can do it. Why not update to latest version of rails v3.2.3, |
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any specific reason to stick with 3.0? |
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3) Fix Existing Bugs: |
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I looked at bugzilla, and there are plenty of bugs (37 to be exact) |
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that need love[4]. so we can fix those as part of project, if their |
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scope if not too large. |
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Now, |
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Please let me know if there are some additional changes required or |
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how changes in current scope are needed. so, that I can modify my |
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rough proposal draft accordingly. Thank you |
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Regards, |
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Gaurish Sharma |
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www.gaurishsharma.com |
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[1] https://recruiting.gentoo.org/ |
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[2] www.rtu.ac.in/main/syllabus/MCA.pdf |
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[4] https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?resolution=---&query_format=advanced&component=RecruitingWebapp |
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