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[142.157.197.53]) by smtp.googlemail.com with ESMTPSA id w187sm8628491qhc.5.2016.03.19.11.34.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 19 Mar 2016 11:34:42 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: GSoc 2016 Introduction To: Pedro Giffuni , pkg@FreeBSD.org References: <56EC0CBF.1080705@FreeBSD.org> From: Robin Guzniczak Message-ID: <56ED9BC1.9040709@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 14:34:41 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56EC0CBF.1080705@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Binary package management and package tools discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2016 18:34:44 -0000 On 03/18/2016 10:12 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Hello Robin; > > Thank you for introducing yourself[1] and for considering the > "KDE front-end to the freebsd-update utility" project. > > I have been trying to think of a mentor but it is not easy to find. > I have also been thinking that while freebsd-update remains an > important and easy way to update FreeBSD, the technology will > probably change when we move towards a packaged world in > FreeBSD 11. It would probably be more interesting to have an > enhanced graphical pkg[2] manager. > > Perhaps some pkg maintainer would be willing to mentor? > > [1] > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?56E9A108.7030304 > [2] > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pkgng-intro.html Thank you very much for your interest. I agree with you, and I also think that a graphical pkg manager would be more useful to the community. This is a very interesting project for me and I would gladly work on it. I already started writing my draft proposal[1]. I am really motivated in coding for FreeBSD this summer and I hope that someone will be willing to mentor me. pkg is well documented so I believe I will not need too much help. Robin [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bp_wHZRR0-biWntSG4HZ42DsgZpfFFMKdrAfuvOCfSc/edit?usp=sharing