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On Sun, 2011-03-20 at 21:21 -0400, Colleen Josephson wrote: |
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> I am Colleen Josephson, a second year MIT student interested in |
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> programming for Gentoo's Summer of Code. |
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> I've been a Gentoo user for 4-5 years, and it is my primary operating |
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> system. I have done some larger scale projects |
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> (Audacious plugins, a Python sound synthesizer), and have familiarity |
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> with source control, but I have never developed for the open source |
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> community before. |
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> I am most familiar with Python at this point, but I know some Java and |
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> C and would enjoy working with those languages as well. |
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> I am potentially interested in the Portage Tags project, |
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Well, you could expand it some by also adding it to pkgcore, (adding it |
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to porthole would be easy for me), but you also need to add an api for |
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it in the portage public api. There is also some additional work to add |
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it to some gentoolkit modules. |
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> or something involving improving the wireless support for Gentoo |
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> installs. |
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> Potential expansions to the Portage projects I am considering are |
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> improving the search speed, |
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That may be a difficult one to achieve. There have been many |
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improvements used from pkgcore to help speed up portage, but the |
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additional features are consuming the savings again. |
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> and an auto-complete similar to Debian's. |
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> As far as the wireless, I've noticed that the #1 most difficult part |
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> or my last 3 Gentoo installs has been setting up wireless correctly, |
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> and |
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> this difficulty is often a deterrent for trying out Gentoo among my |
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> peers. I know this can be an area of contention because of the number |
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> of closed source drivers, but I think it could be a worthwhile |
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> improvement. Any feedback on this is appreciated. |
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There was a gsoc project last year that involved better wireless support |
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in gentoo. Not necessarily for the install kernel. |
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> These ideas are very incomplete, but I look forward to your responses |
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> so I can improve upon them. |
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> Finally, could somebody point me to a good bug to fix in bugzilla as |
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> per the application guidelines? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Colleen Josephson |
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> Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
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> Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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> Class of 2013 |
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Brian Dolbec <brian.dolbec@×××××.com> |
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