Greeting, welcome, and congratulations. Speaking only for myself, e-mail is the best way to communicate. If the topic is of general interest or concern, a public forum might be appropriate (please CC me however).
This GSOC should be a great experience for all. -Marcus > On May 7, 2019, at 10:39 PM, Satryaji Aulia <satr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > Thank you for selecting me for GSOC 2019, I'm very excited > to contribute. Congratulations to the others too. > > To my mentors Marcus and Clemens: > For private communications, is e-mail the most effective way > or do you prefer I message through something else? > > I will track my deadlines and milestones through github issues > on my macports-base fork, if that's ok with you. I'll set it up in a > few days and ask for feedback. > > Besides that, I'll use this period until May 27 to prepare for the > coding period in general. Please let me know if you have any > suggestions. > > Thank you again, I look forward to your guidance in the future. > > > > On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 5:27 AM Mojca Miklavec <mo...@macports.org> wrote: >> >> Dear MacPorters, >> >> I'm happy to announce that MacPorts will be participating at Google's >> GSOC with four awesome projects this year. >> >> (Those who followed the heavy traffic on the development mailing list >> are probably already aware of the excessive amount of traffic we >> received in March and April.) >> >> The selected projects are listed here: >> https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/4814249782673408/ >> >> 1.) Ahmad Satryaji Aulia: Phase Out Xcode Dependency >> Mentored by: Marcus Calhoun-Lopez, Clemens Lang >> A project touching the MacPorts base should remove the need to install >> full Xcode. >> >> 2.) Arjun Salyan: Web App (with API) to Collect PortIndex, Build >> History and Installation Statistics >> Mentored by: Mojca Miklavec, Umesh Singla >> A standalone Django app telling you everything about individual ports. >> >> 3.) Karan Sheth: Automating Packaging for Macports >> Mentored by: Cyril Roelandt (upt author), Renee Otten >> A python package to supersede cpan2port, pypi2port etc. >> >> 4.) Rajdeep Bharati: Macports Custom Views Plugin for Buildbot >> Mentored by: Pierre Tardy, Povilas Kanapickas (both from buildbot), >> Mojca Miklavec >> Upgrading our build infrastructure to the latest version of buildbot >> with new and better views and other improvements. >> >> I would like to congratulate all the students for getting selected and >> thank all the mentors, in particular the three external ones who >> jumped in to help us deal with the much higher amount of good >> proposals than in previous years. We could sadly not accept all the >> projects that we would have wanted. >> >> The next three weeks are devoted to the community bonding period when >> active participation of student is expected (with mentors' help) to >> learn more about the tools and community, improve the planning and >> potentially revise the goals and deadlines if needed, and get up to >> speed for the great summer coding experience. >> >> Mojca
