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Hi Petteri and devs, |
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I'm Kasun Gajasinghe, a final year undergraduate from University of |
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Moratuwa. I'm interested in contributing to Gentoo under Google Summer of |
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Code 2011 program. |
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I've gone through the ideas page, and found the project idea "Maven |
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integration" [0] very interesting, mainly because I have a good background |
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on that area. I've gone through "Quickstart Ebuild Guide" [1] to understand |
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how ebuilding works, and then went through Gentoo java-overlay [2] since |
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it's a suggested approach. It's exciting to see that they are looking for |
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new Java developers! I have already checked out the java-overlay source, and |
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started poking around. |
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As I understood, the main goal of the project is generating an ebuild file |
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by parsing maven project file (POM), right? If so, I think it's better if I |
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looked at how the current maven-based projects are integrated to Gentoo. |
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Further, I'd very much appreciate if you can provide me some directives and |
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guide me. Specially, I'm looking for documentation/articles explaining how |
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Maven is currently used in the system, current status of Maven in |
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java-overlay, and documentation to understand how Gentoo Java-Overlay works. |
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Please tell me if I missed something important. |
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Further, I welcome any advices that you'd like to give for a beginner Gentoo |
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developer interested in contriuting. |
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To justify my ability to complete the project, I thought to provide a brief |
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introduction about my self. I'm a linux-user and Ubuntu has been my default |
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OS for few years now. I've used different flavors including Fedora, and |
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Kubuntu, and I'm now interested in using Gentoo. I am very much competent in |
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Java and Apache Maven and has good experience. I have used Maven for several |
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projects of mine, along with other open sources projects am contributing. |
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Some of the projects are hosted at Google code [3]. I've participated for |
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Google Summer of Code in 2010 under DocBook Open Repository and successfully |
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completed the project [4]. |
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[0] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/soc/ideas.xml#doc_chap2_sect20 |
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[1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/quickstart/index.html |
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[2] http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java/ |
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[3] http://code.google.com/u/kasun.gajasinghe/ |
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[4] http://blog.kasunbg.org/search/label/gsoc-2010 |
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Thanks, |
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Kasun |
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~~~*******'''''''''''''*******~~~ |
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Kasun Gajasinghe, |
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University of Moratuwa, |
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Sri Lanka. |
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Blog: http://kasunbg.blogspot.com |
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/kasunbg |
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