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On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Tabibel Sami <sami.tabibel@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I am 1st year master degree of Cryptology and information security |
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> I have good C, Python and Linux skills, I have also some experience |
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> whith ncurses and onpenGL libraries, and i am interested to work on |
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> "Tags support for Portage" Gentoo project this summer. |
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> I am looking for any comment about the difficulty and the content of |
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> the project, and also about my chances to be accepted if i apply for. |
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> and how to increase them. |
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Implementing tags is fairly easy to do, so it's not really enough work |
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for a SOC project. The main barrier on a simple project like tags is |
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getting your proposal accepted by the community. Typically, an |
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enhancement like this is proposed as a GLEP [1]. Simple proposals like |
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the tags proposal are extremely vulnerable to "bikeshedding" [2], |
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since practically anyone will feel qualified to give their input on |
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the proposal. This means that you will probably receive an |
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overwhelming amount of input from lots of different people with |
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conflicting ideas about how tags should be implemented. |
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Anyway, I think a metadata.xml extension would probably be the best |
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way to implement tags. For example, that's how we implemented USE flag |
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descriptions [3]. |
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/ |
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[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_triviality |
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[3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0056.html |
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