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Hello everyone, |
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I would like to introduce myself to the Gentoo Community with this |
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email. I have applied to the Gentoo GSoC 2016 project D2CC |
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(distributed distcc). |
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My view of the project. |
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Distcc requires configuration on every compiler node and client nodes, |
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takes a while to recognize non responsive nodes, recently powered on |
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nodes and I've personally have had problems with distcc with messages |
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like "...compiling locally instead". |
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To circumvent the problems with distcc, I propose development of a new |
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distributed compiling architecture based on the work done by Michał |
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Górny (mgorny). This development will be done keeping in mind the |
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needs of Gentoo users on small networks. Most of us have such networks |
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at our home/home office and D2CC will allow efficient usage of |
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compilation power of all computers in the network. Since it’s a small |
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network we don’t have to deal with issues like routers blocking |
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multicast packets. Security is also not a primary concern in this |
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development. |
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About Me: |
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My primary area of interest is Linux and my programming languages of |
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choice are C and Python. As part of my academics I have studied C, |
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C++, Data Structures, Computer Networks, Software Engineering, Object |
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Oriented Analysis and Design, Microcontrollers, Image Processing, |
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Operating Systems, Database Systems, Software Project Management & |
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Cloud Computing to name a few. I am presently in my final year of |
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college. I have work experience as a software developer and as a |
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system admin. As a software developer I worked on a wide range of |
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projects ranging from development of system services using Microsoft |
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.NET, Networking services to Embedded Linux and Point-Of-Sale |
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terminals along with Smart Cards. I have used numerous open source |
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libraries under Linux including GTK+, Clutter, Qt, Curl, BlueZ, FLTK, |
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Gstreamer and worked with few databases (MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle, |
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SQLite). I've also done development using Python(Twisted) and some web |
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development using Django, PHP, Ruby, Javascript. I have vast |
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experience in installing and configuring various Linux distributions |
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including Gentoo,Fedora, CentOS, Debian,Knoppix,Ubuntu. I have also |
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contributed couple of patches to the Linux kernel (ALSA Project) to |
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add support for a volume knob and LED for a USB sound card. |
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Details of the projects I've worked on are here |
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http://mndar.phpnet.us/resume or http://mndar.github.io/resume/ |
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My current final year project which I just completed is a Linux Based |
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Smart Surveillance framework using GStreamer that allows you to do |
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custom processing and generates events encoded as JSON messages. I am |
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developing it on a Raspberry Pi 2 and Odroid C1, both running Gentoo. |
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Of Course it works on x86_64 too. |
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Biography: |
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Contribution to Gentoo: |
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As part of my proposal, I have contributed an ebuild on bugs.gentoo.org [1] |
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[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577840 |
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Open Source Contributions: |
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Couple of patches to the Linux kernel (ALSA Project) to add support for a |
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volume knob and LED for a USB sound card. |
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[1] http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2010-October/033100.html |
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[2] http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2010-November/033300.html |
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Developed RootFS Build Factory for CentOS (also works with Fedora) in |
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GSoC 2015. Used git extensively with github during the project. |
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[3] https://github.com/mndar has the code for some of my opensource projects. |
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Regards |
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Mandar Joshi |
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