From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 21 20:11:22 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E25D0DE9 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:11:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from justin.muniz@maine.edu) Received: from mail-lb0-f173.google.com (mail-lb0-f173.google.com [209.85.217.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E736114D for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:11:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-lb0-f173.google.com with SMTP id 10so660975lbf.32 for ; Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:11:20 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=kq6L/+PZuX7RKYCtZQRjV/PqkfESm2HuAeyCJyMwkig=; b=FHq6LpWaqV7HetzTR4zN75u19dDT34IpSFH5nREr9hGd60lLuz/tGv8RqexRX+tl6i E0nNX3MO2wpHdrLJ+zaMFh89C33DysdA/ARXKkigLxY+58wnZGn3JgDY994LUP+hiilq d8VAti2rJVT4A6EnBrHUjzuoRXjJv+AZmtjhpxWhfwrmHHVMi8jjlGTYKg61PA+QayRT WhHR2SE59pQ8dJbGFyg2ebXzOsm0+YBy04RJijp8W+SFYXSOwR/h3Kf+Yf10va+6mjat jZO0eaOZ5Rkt5gmIJ7uX9uhhsq4aUXzk8JHnCSFk9zlwwf2aLZCFOmQGBy6GYC4Sy+ny BIeg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.125.167 with SMTP id mr7mr11914433lbb.19.1366575079994; Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:11:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.112.135.229 with HTTP; Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:11:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 16:11:19 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: GSOC: Qt front-ends From: Justin Edward Muniz To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnZtGgViTg/v9Z0N45bhhL/0dAv8GgMMKNtsVNud3sq5ysXw92h2UFQHE7npSb6dSMNmVe6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2013 20:11:22 -0000 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