any suggestions on what else this post should say?
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Matthias Fuchs <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:24 AM Subject: Re: post on Google Open Source Blog about Metalink/GSOC To: Anthony Bryan <[email protected]> On Thursday 15 October 2009 07:52:52 you wrote: > hi all! > > first, I want to say thanks for all your involvement with > metalink/GSOC/metalink-related apps! > > I'm writing a post for the Google Open Source Blog ( > http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/ ) about metalink & GSOC. > > would any of you like to write a sentence or 2 about your GSOC > experience? any cool stories on how it's impacted your life? would you > like to describe your project (my descriptions would likely be brief)? > > does anyone want to do a short 5-15 min talk/interview on skype for a > podcast? just a simple, laid back, not too technical talk? > Hi Anthony, I kinda overlooked your mail, I have so many in my inbox that it gets inefficient. :) Well, what was GSOC for me? It was another introduction in programming on a large code base, how to make myself familiar with the code, the community and what tools to use that help me in that process. Essentially it came down to me coding more than I did before and I still code more if there is enough time. :) On my project, I improved many parts of KGet, especially multisource downloading. That makes it possible that the Metalink-implementation for KGet -- which I also improved a lot -- can use multiple servers at once and users can change which servers should be used and which not. Other features I worked on that are connected to metalink are support for checksum-checking, repairing of downloads and an assistant that helps users in creating Metalinks (so far it outputs Metalink-files based on the Metralink draft). Currently I am implementing basic signature checking, better support will be in 4.5. Cheers, matthias -- (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metalink Discussion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=.
