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On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:45 AM, Vincent Cheng <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > -- Eduardo Silva http://edsiper.linuxchile.cl http://www.monkey-project.com
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