On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:10 AM, Eduardo Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > 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
At the moment, I'm not even sure if I'll have enough time to commit to GSoC. I guess I'll mull over it some more... Of course that doesn't mean I can't work on the packaging bits outside of GSoC. ;) Cheers, Vincent _______________________________________________ Monkey mailing list [email protected] http://lists.monkey-project.com/listinfo/monkey
