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Hello everyone! |
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My name is Dmitry and I'm writing here because I've found a proposal to |
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rewrite Catalyst in Gentoo GSoC-2013 Ideas page[1]. I know that application |
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period hasn't started yet, but I already think that I'd like to take up |
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this job. However I've found that before posting application I must perform |
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some actions: |
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1. Use the tools that you will use in your project to make changes to code. |
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2. Participate in our development community. |
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3. Give us your contact info and working hours. |
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I'd like to begin from the second question, i.e. I'd like to introduce |
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myself. I'm Russian student, who studies programming for three years |
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already, though it's rather hobby than education. My speciality is |
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classical philology and now I'm studying colloquial Latin and read |
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classical authors in Italy. My interest to programming began when I've |
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started to use Linux. It happened more than three years ago; I've begun |
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with bash and Python, now I'm trying to explore C++, though I've begun to |
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study it only two or three months ago and didn't have explored it so deep |
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to tell that I know C++ (though I certainly already know some basics). |
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Last year I've first time participated in GSoC with FSF and rewritten |
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gnulib-tool huge shell script in Python to make it more portable and |
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flexible[2]. I've successfully finished this work and decided to help |
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gnulib-developers even in the future[3]. However, since I was missed to |
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Italy for a long time to study Latin, I couldn't continue work so |
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intensively like before (though even in Italy I've really never stoped |
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working). Recently I've published a new version of gnulib-tool, which seems |
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to be more easy to use and also better organized than the older one[4]. |
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I've finished it some days ago (it also probably was a good exercise in |
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Python) and will now develop this version (thus I've created a separated |
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repository). There is a small (yet?) discussion in gnulib-tool list[5] |
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about this update, though my mentor (Bruno Haible) didn't respond yet (but |
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other gnulib developer has already written an answer). I'm planning to |
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continue this work. |
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Some other things were written before gnulib reimplementation. Some time |
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before I've written a small Russian-Latin dictionary (which in fact was my |
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first work in Python) for my cathedra and all people studying classical |
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philology[6]. However, now I think that it needs reimplementation too |
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(since I see that it could have been implemented better and also see some |
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things which I could add like morphological parser from Perseus site[7] to |
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explain word forms). For some time I've been creating some portability |
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layers[8] between Python and Python3, but now I don't think it is necessary |
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since I feel that the time to migrate to Python3 has probably already come. |
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The last thing that I was working around is flex/yacc parsers generation |
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and implementation for some classes in C++ (this work was initially begun |
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to understand C++ better, but I think that it can be in future something |
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more than just exercise); this work is also located in my github |
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repositories[9]. |
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If you think that my candidature may be considered, I'd like to ask some |
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questions. |
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As you've already understand, I've been used git for some time already. |
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During the previous GSoC I intensively used git to work with code, though I |
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can't say that I'm really experienced person (i.e. git push, git pull, |
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diff, patch were enough for my previous project). However, I'm not sure it |
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is enough. The other question is that it is really hard to find some |
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project which uses python and emit patch to it to pass requirements. Could |
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you advice a good bug, please? :-) |
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If you think I have a chance, I can even answer the third question (about |
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work hours, contacts, etc.). :-) |
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Looking forward to your answers! |
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P.S. Thanks for being so patience to read such a long letter till the end! |
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[1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2013/Ideas#Catalyst |
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[2] http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2012.html#gnulib |
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[3] https://github.com/ghostmansd/gnulib-python |
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[4] https://github.com/ghostmansd/pygnulib |
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[5] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2013-04/msg00037.html |
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[6] http://sourceforge.net/projects/quirinus |
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[7] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph |
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[8] https://github.com/ghostmansd/gnupython |
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[9] https://github.com/ghostmansd/quirinus |
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With best regards, |
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Dmitry Selyutin |
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E-mail: ghostmansd@×××××.com |
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Phone: +7(985)334-07-70 |
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