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From: Ankita Shukla <ankitashukla707@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] GSoC 2016: Extensions for the Gentoo Wiki
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2016 16:28:22
Message-Id: CAPJvrnssmKWvXVg_rXTDkRpwQwhUpTpWZXwpvn7Lwo2Nye3YjQ@mail.gmail.com
1 Hi,
2
3 I am Ankita Shukla, a Computer Science senior undergraduate at Indian
4 Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.
5
6 I have applied to Gentoo project 'Extensions for the Gentoo Wiki'.
7 The Gentoo Wiki has been the main documentation source for Gentoo for well
8 over two years now. It has plenty of content, but a few features (in the
9 form of extensions) need to be added to the software, MediaWiki, to provide
10 even better documentation.
11 Developing and integrating these extensions with the Gentoo Wiki will make
12 the wiki easier to use and people more efficient. At the end of the summer,
13 four new extensions would be added to the Gentoo wiki, including:
14
15 - A document export pipeline for PDF and other common e-reader formats
16 for the Gentoo Handbook.
17 - Improve Handbook navigation on smartphones
18 - Fork-a-page: A way for contributors to fork pages that are read-only
19 for them, implement improvements, and allow the privileged developers to
20 merge them back in easily.
21 - Kernel configuration documentation: Ingest a set of .config parameters
22 (CONFIG_FOO=M) and render the location and description for a set of current
23 kernel versions.
24
25 The first point here
26 <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2016/Ideas#Students.2C_please_read_this_first>
27 says
28 that I need to clone one of the repos and submit a patch for a bug and also
29 says that 'Your contact in Gentoo can help you determine which SCM and
30 repository you should use for this as well as a good bug to fix. ' :)
31
32 So, it would be really awesome if I could get a direction to some easy bugs
33 to fix. I'm looking for them too! :D
34
35 *Project Idea* -
36 https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2016/Ideas/Extensions_for_the_Gentoo_Wiki
37
38 *Proposal* -
39 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1z8cOhYXn9JOK8MDObX12xUBfS-XaZ5b4iQ4iFchUVqA/edit#
40
41 *A small intro:*
42 I am Ankita Shukla, a Computer Science senior undergraduate at Indian
43 Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India.
44 I am a regular MediaWiki contributor and have also developed an extension
45 Spelling Dictionary [
46 https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SpellingDictionary, CODE -
47 https://git.wikimedia.org/log/mediawiki%2Fextensions%2FSpellingDictionary ]
48 for Gnome Outreachy Round#9 [https://www.gnome.org/opw/#participants]
49 (previously OPW). I also delivered a talk on the extension in the FOSSASIA
50 conference (March 18-20, 2016). I had also opened some tasks for Google
51 Code In 2015 in the same extension and was a mentor for them.
52 I’m also a big time Linux enthusiast. I've been using and experimenting
53 with different distros - had started off with Ubuntu, changed to Elementary
54 OS Luna and right now working on Linux MInt!
55
56 Looking forward to hearing from all of you! :)
57
58 --
59 Thanks and Regards,
60
61 Ankita Shukla
62 Computer Science Engineering
63 B.Tech Final Year (Senior)
64 Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee