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Hi, |
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My name is Sreenatha Bhatlapenumarthi. I am a third year undergraduate |
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student majoring in computer science at IIIT-Hyderabad. I am interested in |
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participating in GSoC 2013 with Gentoo. I'd like to introduce myself and |
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the project I'm interested in working on. |
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I am new to Gentoo and have installed it only recently on my system. I |
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have worked on GUI development using pygtk for ASCEND as a part of GSoC |
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2012. Please find my project proposal summary here[0] and a list of my |
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contributions here[1]. |
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I am interested in working on the "Accelerated security bug filing" |
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project[2] listed in the ideas page. After having gone through the |
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description provided, I understand that the project involves developing a |
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Gentoo client application for filing security bugs to reduce the number of |
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potential vulnerability windows. I would like to know more about the |
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project and how I can go about it. Here are a couple of questions I have |
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regarding the project: |
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1. Is the application supposed to be used for filing generic bugs or |
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security-related bugs in specific? |
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2. What kind of interface should the application provide to the user in |
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terms of the input fields? Is it similar to [3] (after logging in) ? |
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3. If not, how exactly are the bugs reported by the user through the |
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application? Some use cases would be really helpful. |
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4. Are the reported bugs filed at bugs.gentoo.org? If yes, should the user |
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be authenticated from within the application? |
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5. Are there are any simple bugs that you think I should try fixing? |
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6. What do you think of this as a project for GSoC'13(priority, duration, |
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difficulty etc)? |
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I have created a sample mockup[4] for the application's GUI. Please look |
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into it and let me know if there is something wrong/missing. I have also |
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installed pybugz on my system and have written a small GUI application[5] |
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in pygtk that uses pybugz to search for gentoo-bugs based on a given |
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keyword. |
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Thank you for taking your time out to read this. Please let me know if you |
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think there is something I should know about or improve upon. |
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[0] - |
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http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2012/sreenatha/19001 |
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[1] - http://ascend4.org/User:SreenathaB |
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[2] - |
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http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2013/Ideas/Accelerated_security_bug_filing |
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[3] - https://bugs.gentoo.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Gentoo%20Security |
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[4] - http://web.iiit.ac.in/~sreenatha.b/gentoo-app-mockup.png |
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[5] - https://github.com/lucyd/pybugz/blob/master/search-app |
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Cheers, |
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Sreenatha |
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