Hi Saahil, Building on Dave's great response.
1 - I would submit links in email to the dev list. 2 - You may plagiarize those resources freely to build your proposal. It wouldn't hurt to credit the links to the work in your proposal as this is Open Source work and it will help other people build on your work. 3 - As long as GSOC is fine with it, the SA community and myself as a mentor see no problem with it. 4 - This mailing list is where you should ask questions. Dave Jones responded in a great way to get you started. Thanks for the status update! And thanks for considering the project. Learning more about email security and anti-spam as well as open source can be a great career move so tell other students to look at our Jira tickets and consider applying too. Best, KAM -- Kevin A. McGrail Asst. Treasurer & VP Fundraising, Apache Software Foundation Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 2:06 AM, Saahil Sirowa <cs16btech11...@iith.ac.in> wrote: > Hi Kevin, > I have a few questions regarding the GSoC project. They goes as follows:- > 1) How am I supposed to share my first draft with the community. Should I > post the link in the mail or submit it on Apache website? > 2) Can I take some ideas from this https://bz.apache.org/Spa > mAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7287 > 3) I have a very busy schedule at my college right now. Will it be okay if > I start my contribution with an easy to fix bug after the proposal > submission(around the end of April). I will mention this in the proposal. > 4) Is there any way which can help me to understand the role of different > files and folders in SpamAssassin source code. > > Progress Status: I have started drafting the proposal. > > With Regards > Saahil Sirowa > Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 2:25 AM, Kevin A. McGrail <kmcgr...@apache.org> > wrote: > >> HI Saahil, nice to meet you. >> >> Working on the Apache SpamAssassin project especially on a statistical >> classifier is an excellent choice for a student GSOC student. >> >> For this and the ticket 267 that you also expressed interest in, you've >> taken the correct step to engage the developer community for the project. >> >> Your first step is to go to https://community.apache.org/gsoc.html and >> make sure you read the "Students Read this Section" >> >> The second step is discussion and to start drafting your proposal. I'm >> a fan of using Google Docs and spreadsheets because it allows for easy >> sharing and collaborative work on documents. I'd likely recommend >> >> For the bugs, the auto-linking is adding the comma so use >> https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7287 >> >> We'll want you to discuss progress (designs, code, etc.) early on with >> the rest of the community here on this list so you don't run into major >> problems later on. And this will be where you post questions and I'll be >> here to make sure people are nice, don't flame you and your questions make >> sense. >> >> For others reading this, we could use more mentors for the program to >> help! Anyone willing to be a backup mentor? >> >> Regards, >> KAM >> >> -- >> Kevin A. McGrail >> Asst. Treasurer & VP Fundraising, Apache Software Foundation >> Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project >> https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 <(703)%20798-0171> >> >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:19 PM, Saahil Sirowa < >> cs16btech11...@iith.ac.in> wrote: >> >>> Hello, I m Computer Science and Engineering student at IITH. I would >>> like to work on the above mentioned project during GSoC 2018. I have >>> started getting myself familiar with the codebase. Can you give me some >>> pointers about how to proceed after that. What is the best medium to >>> discuss my proposal ideas. >>> >>> >>> link: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-268?page=com.at >>> lassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel >>> &focusedCommentId=16395113#comment-16395113 >>> >> >> >
