[gentoo-soc] [GSoC 2012] Portagestats: Introduction

[G. Gaydarov]

Hi guys!

My name is Georgi and I am a Computer Science student at The University
of Manchester. I have been using Gentoo for over 5 year now and I'd love
to give back something to the community. I would like to apply for this
year's GSoC and I've chosen to work on the Portage statistics idea.

Here's a brief description of my project, aptly named "portagestats":

> This project aims to implement support in Portage (either directly
> or through hooks) to selectively report Portage actions and various
> system information, such as installations/removals, compilation
> durations/problems, USE flag choices, CFLAGS, kernel configuration,
> and so forth. This information can be useful to both developers and
> users and can possibly improve the QA process.
>
> In order to encourage participation the project will provide users
> with free version control of their Portage configuration. Moreover,
> users will also be given the choice to be contacted in regards to
> specific packages in order to help developers, or to report
> information completely anonymously.
>
> This project will be implemented in Python and will reuse code from
> gentoostats and previous similar projects.

I doubt that many of you would like to read my complete proposal due to 
its length, but if you are curious I can give you a link. If you have 
any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to get in touch with 
me, either here or on IRC (I am gg7 on Freenode).

Regards,
G. Gaydarov