Re: [gentoo-soc] Application for Kuroo

[Jeremy Olexa]

Zengjun Zhang wrote:
> Hello, everybody:
>
> I am apply "Adapt Kuroo for current portage versions". I have
> contacted�Andrew Schenck <mailto:galiven@×××××××××××××××××.net>�before.
> Thanks for him to�encourage�me to participate in Kuroo.�I am happy
> to�discuss�questions with everyone. Following is my application proposal:
>
> --------------------------------------------
> �GSoC Application Proposal
>
> *Objective*
> Kuroo is a KDE GUI frontend for software management in�Gentoo. From the
> screenshot and experience of Kuroo uers, it is very convient to use. But
> the latest version is�0.81.0_rc1, updated in 2007. And the offical
> offsite http://kuroo.org is no longer accessble. The objective of
> this�project is to revise the source code to satisfy the current portage
> tree structure.
>
> *Abstract*
> Gentoo is Linux distribution. It almost automatically makes software
> optimized and customized. It could be served as�secure server,
> development workstation, desktop, embedded system. And it benifits from
> Gentoo's package system�called Portage. Portage is managed by a Python
> script emerge, which can be used by users to install or
> uninstall�software. Kuroo is a GUI frontend for managing software
> written in C++ based on QT and KDE. It provides additional�features like
> filter mechanism such as category and subcategory, accessing to specific
> version and USE flag.�
>
> *Deliverables*
> Revised source code (including the modification annotation)
> Document (including main modification ideas and it's implementation)
> Version Support (tracking the new version of gentoo)
>
> *Timeline*
> 4.20 - 4.30: Get to know mentors and fully understand the orignal
> specific design ideas.
> 5.1 �- 5.10: Dive into the details of Kuroo source code, try to figure
> out the relative part
> 5.11 - 5.23: Give the specific modification document
> 5.24 - 6.14: Do the coding
> 6.15 - 7.15: Test the modification in several circumstance and revise
> the errors
> 7.16 - 7.30: Write document
>
> *Biography*
> I am graduate student from Beijing University of Posts and
> Telecommunications (BUPT). Before I came to BUPT, I�worked for 2 yeas in
> a computer company in the area of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), which
> is developed in C++. I��also developed plugins in Python. As for Kuroo,
> I install Gentoo on my notebook and use portage everyday, which�motivate
> me to develop a tool to manage my system by myself.
>

You will need to include plans of how you are going to make it easier to 
maintain . Projects like this in the past are typically abandoned after 
the summer and they are left in the same state as they are now 6 months 
later.

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-Jeremy