Hey, Please, can I get a reply so that I can start working on either of the plan? Thanks, Karan Sheth
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 10:45 PM KARAN SHETH <karan.sh...@somaiya.edu> wrote: > Hey Mojca, > > Thanks for replying. > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 3:00 AM Mojca Miklavec <mo...@macports.org> wrote: > >> Dear Karan, >> >> Warmly welcome to the MacPorts community! >> >> On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 20:36, KARAN SHETH via macports-dev wrote: >> >>> Hey there, >>> I would like to start by saying this is not GSoC Proposal as the >>> subject says but I had no idea what else to call it. This is just to make >>> contact with you regarding a GSoC Project idea that I would really like to >>> do. >>> >>> My name is Karan Sheth. I have attached a doc link wherein all the >>> personal info and a small bio (I didn't know how big it was needed, sorry >>> if it's of improper size) and the rough project goal, the abstract is >>> written. >>> >> >>> I am extremely sorry for establishing contact soo late and I know >>> there should be no excuse but I was occupied by college exams and other >>> team activities wherein we organize workshops to teach others. I think I >>> would be a perfect fit for this project cause of my experience with >>> scraping and making apps in Django and Flask. >>> >>> I would love to hear back from you regarding where should I start >>> contributing to the project and how should I go about in making my final >>> proposal, I know I am late to this but I assure you I will try my best to >>> do any task very fast and properly. >>> >> >> You are not too late just yet, but the more time you have, the easier it >> is to make a good proposal. >> >> The first step you should make is to carefully read the mailing list >> archive from both last year (from GSOC application period up to GSOC >> beginning) and this year. We've provided a lot of information for this >> project in particular as two students already asked about it, and some >> started working on the demo projects already. >> > > As suggested I went through the past archives and found three projects : > > 1) From last year by Vishnu. > 2) From this year by Arjun Salyan > *.* > 3) From this year by Rajdeep Bharati. > > >> What we want you to do is to prove us that you are capable of carrying >> out the project through the summer and make an outstanding contribution. >> For that we would like to both see some of your code, as well as a detailed >> plan of how to carry out the project. >> >> Regarding the code: you can either build some demo from scratch, or >> improve one of the three existing attempts of proof-of-concept apps >> (upgrading would be better, but if there are too many problems, feel free >> to start from scratch). Show us how your work would excel when applied to >> MacPorts. >> Another smaller challenge could be to create a Portfile for Buildbot 2.1, >> to assist us in faster migration, as that would also be needed / helpful >> for communication between the app and buildbot. Or anything else to aid >> with a better application later. >> > > I plan on starting out with making a demo app for which I will either > build upon last year's project or start from scratch and draw inspiration > for the design from both the projects (If it's fine). > Once the dynamic app is done, I will try making the Portfile for Buildbot > 2.1 but I guess I will need a bit of help here. > > >> (Another option for a project in Python would be bringing universal >> packaging tool [1] to MacPorts.) >> > > I looked in to this option and it looks very exciting, this is what I have > understood so far about bringing upt to MacPorts : > - A UPT-Frontend and Backend will have to be created for macports. > So the Frontend will take the Portfile from macports and convert it using > UPT. > But my doubt is, what is the UPT-Backend in this case, I know it should be > MacOS but like in the example given on UPT repo its converts json from PYPI > into Guix Pxg Definition. > So same way, what would UPT do in case of Macports? > I may be completely wrong here as I have no prior knowledge about UPT. > > Mojca >> >> [1] https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/package_software_with_upt/ >> >> >>> Thanks, >>> Karan Sheth. >>> >>> >>> >>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gFP3pUIVnto9JlqT03X6JHMFzbbd-wqUuhxIAYbyiZg/edit?usp=sharing >>> >> >> Personal biography is probably ok, but the proposal itself is completely >> missing, so there is not much that I could comment on, other than my plea >> to take a slightly better care of grammar. It doesn't have to be perfect >> English, but at least taking care of spacing (usually there is no space >> before punctuation etc.) and even such trivial stuff as trying to use >> capital "I" instead of the lowercase one when referring to yourself make >> quite a difference. We'll be nitpicking about the code a lot, and this is >> the first step ;) >> >> I will be adding the milestones, Timeline, Stretch Goals, etc. later, > once I am familiar with the overall project and deploy the demo app, if > that's fine. > I will try to improve my language. > > Now seeing that I have two choices - first to continue making the django > app or to make upt, I will first look into UPT after my doubts raised above > have been clarified and then decide which route to take. > > > Thanks, > Karan Sheth > > > -- <https://www.somaiya.edu> <http://www.somaiya-ayurvihar.org> <http://nareshwadi.org> <http://somaiya.com> <http://www.helpachild.in> <http://nareshwadi.org>
