[gentoo-soc] Re: Big Data Infrastructure

[Benda Xu]

Hi Shubham,

(Ccing gentoo soc mailing list)



Shubham Raorane <shubhamraorane@×××××.com> writes:



> Greetings Mentor Benda Xu,
>
> My name is Shubham Raorane and I am a third year computer science
> engineering student from St.Francis Institue of
> Technology,Mumbai,India.
>
> For my Gsoc 2020 project I have decided to work on Big Data
> Infrastructure by Gentoo.I have had little experience using Linux but
> have always wanted to work on a Linux Os.It took me 3 days to set up
> Gentoo amd64 minimal version on Oracle virtual box on my windows 10
> laptop because it turned out to be a little challenging and my college
> semester is still not over so I have to attend lectures. However I
> would love to work on this project and will try my best to get some
> noticeable work done before the proposal deadline.


Good to know that Gentoo caught your interest.



> While installing Gentoo I became familiar with ebuilds,portage and
> emerge.Now I plan to read up Linux Sea(a book on Gentoo Linux) to get
> a detailed idea about how Gentoo works under the hood.I plan to finish
> reading the book,build the java-ebuilder,understand the maven-overlay
> concept in the next two to three days.Forgive me if these targets
> don’t sound realistic but I am trying to keep myself under a time
> bound pressure to start the actual work as soon as possible.


Thanks to you, I got to read Linux Sea for the first time.  It indeed

looks like a decent introduction.



> Even though this is my first gsoc and I will have to attend lectures
> at college I assure you that this project will remain my number one
> priority and I will dedicate most of my time and resources to it.


> Any form of advice, guidance or constructive criticism from you will
> be appreciated.Thank you for you time and consideration and looking
> forward to hearing from you!


As a CS major I suppose you have experience with Java and Scala. Good

luck in sharpening your skills!



Yours,

Benda