Greetings. Learning Tcl should not be too difficult, especially since you are already familiar with other languages. The GSoC website has a link to a Tcl tutorial [1].
What constitutes “low hanging fruit” depends on your experience level with MacPorts. Do you own a Mac? Have you used MacPorts before? For the most part, the project you propose would involve modifying the compiler_blacklist_versions PortGroup [2]. If the word PortGroup is new to you, you might want to read through the MacPorts documentation [3]. If you are eager to jump right in to MacPorts development, you could attempt to take an “orphaned port” and update it. If you run `port livecheck maintainer:nomaintainer`, you will find a great number of ports which are out of date or whose livecheck is broken. You could then attempt a fix and submit a pull request [4]. If this has not answered your question, please feel free to ask for clarification. -Marcus [1] https://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode#Whatyoushoulddobeforehandinginanapplication [2] https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/_resources/port1.0/group/compiler_blacklist_versions-1.0.tcl [3] https://guide.macports.org [4] https://guide.macports.org/#project.github > On Mar 27, 2019, at 9:33 AM, Fatema Sherif <fatemakhali...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I hope this email finds you well. I am a senior year student at Cairo > University. I am interested in the project idea in GSoC 2019 "Make > Blacklisting MacPorts Compilers Easier] ". > I want to apply for summer internship in MacPorts but I don't know have > experience with Tcl. I wanted to know if it is ok and if I'll have time with > the tutorials. > I am a good programmer in C,C++,Java,Android Programming, web development and > Python. > I would like to proceed with the application and it would be nice to know > what I should do next. > I would like to know if you have relevant low hanging fruit so I'd get > clearer vision for plan in the proposal or I shall proceed with the proposal > directly. > > Best regards, >
