On Apr 21, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Justin Edward Muniz <justin.mu...@maine.edu> wrote:
> Hello everyone once again, > > I decided to split this from my previous thread because the nature of > my questions has changed. I benefited from the last thread, and I am > grateful to those who responded to it. > > For me Google Summer of Code is a big opportunity, and my interest in > contributing to the open source community is fairly limited to FreeBSD for > many reasons. I know that my application may have a better chance of being > approved if I have a mentor to help me with my endeavors. > > I currently have three project ideas in mind; however I need to > understand which one would be the most beneficial, and try to find a > mentor, before I create my proposal. Eventually I would like to develop > each application and release them along with a meta-package that comprises > of them all. For now, I need to focus on just one of the three. > > Originally I was interested in developing a Qt front-end for > freebsd-update; indeed most of my research has been for that project. > However, I am also interested in furthering kports -- which seems to be > notoriously buggy, has broken package functionality, and is a mammoth of an > application; the last development for kports was in 2009. I also am > interested in developing a graphical application to customize the FreeBSD > kernel. > > I have compiled a list of features that I would like to concentrate on > for each project. Some of the features are far less important than others, > so my actual application may omit some of them, or consider them optional. > If it would be appropriate I will certainly share my lists, but since the > lists are long I don't want to spam the mailing-list. I am new to this > community after all! > > If anyone is interested in discussing these possibilities or just one > of them in particular, I will greatly appreciate any advice, insight, > concerns, criticism, or ideas. Ideally I am also looking to talk with > anyone who might be interested in mentoring my Google Summer of Code > project. > > Justin Muniz > ______________________________ Justin I say stick to FreeBSD-update . My reason is, as Pkgng becomes more popular , a front end for ports will be less useful as binary packages become more popular . Kports is a monster program , you should set a reasonable goal ,and target dates; which may be hard with a cleanup project . Also a update notifier for kde that handles FreeBSD update would be very useful . My 2cents . --- Mark saad | mark.s...@longcount.org _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
