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Hi, |
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I am Ankita Shukla, a Computer Science senior undergraduate at Indian |
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Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. |
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I have applied to Gentoo project 'Extensions for the Gentoo Wiki'. |
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The Gentoo Wiki has been the main documentation source for Gentoo for well |
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over two years now. It has plenty of content, but a few features (in the |
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form of extensions) need to be added to the software, MediaWiki, to provide |
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even better documentation. |
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Developing and integrating these extensions with the Gentoo Wiki will make |
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the wiki easier to use and people more efficient. At the end of the summer, |
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four new extensions would be added to the Gentoo wiki, including: |
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- A document export pipeline for PDF and other common e-reader formats |
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for the Gentoo Handbook. |
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- Improve Handbook navigation on smartphones |
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- Fork-a-page: A way for contributors to fork pages that are read-only |
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for them, implement improvements, and allow the privileged developers to |
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merge them back in easily. |
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- Kernel configuration documentation: Ingest a set of .config parameters |
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(CONFIG_FOO=M) and render the location and description for a set of current |
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kernel versions. |
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The first point here |
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<https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2016/Ideas#Students.2C_please_read_this_first> |
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says |
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that I need to clone one of the repos and submit a patch for a bug and also |
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says that 'Your contact in Gentoo can help you determine which SCM and |
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repository you should use for this as well as a good bug to fix. ' :) |
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So, it would be really awesome if I could get a direction to some easy bugs |
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to fix. I'm looking for them too! :D |
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*Project Idea* - |
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https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2016/Ideas/Extensions_for_the_Gentoo_Wiki |
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*Proposal* - |
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https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z8cOhYXn9JOK8MDObX12xUBfS-XaZ5b4iQ4iFchUVqA/edit# |
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*A small intro:* |
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I am Ankita Shukla, a Computer Science senior undergraduate at Indian |
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Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India. |
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I am a regular MediaWiki contributor and have also developed an extension |
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Spelling Dictionary [ |
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https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpellingDictionary, CODE - |
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https://git.wikimedia.org/log/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FSpellingDictionary ] |
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for Gnome Outreachy Round#9 [https://www.gnome.org/opw/#participants] |
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(previously OPW). I also delivered a talk on the extension in the FOSSASIA |
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conference (March 18-20, 2016). I had also opened some tasks for Google |
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Code In 2015 in the same extension and was a mentor for them. |
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I’m also a big time Linux enthusiast. I've been using and experimenting |
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with different distros - had started off with Ubuntu, changed to Elementary |
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OS Luna and right now working on Linux MInt! |
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Looking forward to hearing from all of you! :) |
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Thanks and Regards, |
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Ankita Shukla |
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Computer Science Engineering |
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B.Tech Final Year (Senior) |
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Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee |