From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 23 22:21:04 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 EB6E81BB for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:21:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nonesuch@longcount.org) Received: from mail-vc0-f171.google.com (mail-vc0-f171.google.com [209.85.220.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD40F1273 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:21:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f171.google.com with SMTP id ha11so1207987vcb.30 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:20:57 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:references:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:cc:x-mailer:from:subject:date :to:x-gm-message-state; bh=fPqGGggix1OBe6yFL1sWciVMn5kd4BQdmPpvs4Y+2rc=; b=PCWPVeCUzMdhuwU3VYZMXmpU2Y729wApzTiefpeOVSJ+EpS6UPs3qrTuWBwvkF6xmi n4McA8VYW++oLnNOFKPCTPbVgw2DFzjW0LkvRiuLA2x3ri2coT5os0h1j1rFe33fWri9 Zeix7qqERcbHRJ2qPN3uayYKkXtn2ZJsLZfTn741eQTDu0qEYSWZepdKwiMZCEQ2nw71 kK5/H/XsKCx5NGhSjrjzgtkBgwm8swwhqdUlKgc8Q4z3rXswVD2OUJ16F2tNMVaTdxQa RJC3lVSvatxRTT/t8c4jTLOD5oPxs3x5Iupdkwkypr2UnfwczRtCA1o+XmtC3H3hIYS2 zFPw== X-Received: by 10.52.164.139 with SMTP id yq11mr20514922vdb.36.1366755657567; Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:20:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [97.251.37.249] (249.sub-97-251-37.myvzw.com. [97.251.37.249]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id l6sm319222vdh.3.2013.04.23.15.20.55 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:20:56 -0700 (PDT) References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <60A4F968-60A4-4C71-AD53-BA1BC6CBAB5F@longcount.org> X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (10B329) From: Mark Saad Subject: Re: GSOC: Qt front-ends Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 18:20:51 -0400 To: Justin Edward Muniz X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmUVwsFe5E2JBvLK+7hL+k9hwTY2MbGLUpqD8gg8H3GL9ByXARKpn3n+E0fQCZoaWqJvtmb Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" 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: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:21:04 -0000 On Apr 21, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Justin Edward Muniz wr= ote: > Hello everyone once again, >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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 a= n > application; the last development for kports was in 2009. I also am > interested in developing a graphical application to customize the FreeBSD > kernel. >=20 > 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! >=20 > 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. >=20 > Justin Muniz > ______________________________ Justin I say stick to FreeBSD-update . My reason is, as Pkgng becomes more p= opular , 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 go= al ,and target dates; which may be hard with a cleanup project . Also a up= date notifier for kde that handles FreeBSD update would be very useful .=20 My 2cents . --- Mark saad | mark.saad@longcount.org