On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 3:23 AM, Vincent Cheng <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Eduardo, > > First off, sorry for the late reply...I was pretty sure that I did in > fact send a reply, but it's not on the mailing list archives nor is it > in my outbox. Oh well. > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Eduardo Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Vincent, > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:43 AM, Vincent Cheng <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> Just a quick introduction: I'm currently a 2nd year BSc student (major > >> in Computer Science) at the University of British Columbia. I'm also a > >> Debian Maintainer (for ~3 years now, see [1]) and a fairly new owner > >> of one of those nifty Raspberry Pis, and lately I've been exploring > >> things to do with my Pi (amongst other things, it can certainly be a > >> low-power web server), which leads me to my interest with this > >> project. > >> > >> The one thing that concerns me is that I may not have the prerequisite > >> C experience for part of the project's requirements (i.e. outside of > >> school projects I haven't done any programming in C); my strengths > >> would mostly lie in the packaging/cross-compiling side of things (and > >> perhaps other things like setting up a package repository). Would this > >> still be enough to qualify me as a potential student, or would my lack > >> of programming experience be a deal breaker? > > > > > > If i understand correctly you know C due to school stuff. I think the > > questions to see if you are eligible are: > > > > - Are you able to write a program in C (with threading) ? > > - Are you familiar with Python ? > > - Do you enjoy programming ? > > > > The program is more about coding, we dont expect the packaging will take > 3 > > months, so if you are capable to program in C and Python you are > eligible, > > and of course you must to be sure that is something that you enjoy. > > For the most part I actually like the packaging/QA side of things more > than development. It probably doesn't help that I really don't think I > have the prerequisite C skills to contribute in any meaningful way to > monkey right now (FWIW, threading was only briefly mentioned in that > school class I talked about), so I think it's probably better to let > someone else take on this task. I see that there's currently another > student who posted on the list to ask about this project, after all. > > I took a look at the packaging, and it seems to be in pretty good > shape (I do have a few patches which I'll send to the list in a sec), > so there's really not that much for me to do anyways... > is totally up to you, for the GSoC context that part requires to do something in C, is not so complex but you have to be able and motivated to learn. Patches are welcome!, thanks -- Eduardo Silva http://edsiper.linuxchile.cl http://www.monkey-project.com
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