Re: Getting involved in SoK

[Mariam Fahmy]

Hi,
I am so enthusiastic to start  working in this project, and it will be ok
if we set a call to understand more about the project, it will help me a
lot, I am beginner in open source so there might be a lot of things which
isn't clear to me yet, but I will do my best to finish this project in a
perfect way with your help, I am a student, and I have exams nowdays, I
will finish exams on 1 December, if it is suitable for you, we can set a
call and start working on it.
Thanks.

On Mon, 23 Nov 2020, 8:10 pm Timothée Ravier,  wrote:

> Hi Miriam, Aleix,
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 5:07 AM Aleix Pol  wrote:
>
>> Including Timothée who will be co-mentoring the project. :)
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 5:03 AM Aleix Pol  wrote:
>> > Adding the mentors list to know what the exact process for students is.
>> >
>> > Mariam, in the meantime, if you want to start working on it or want to
>> > have some kind of call to get started, tell me and I'll see to it.
>>
>
> Fee free to send all rpm-ostree questions my way.
>
> Setting up a call to get things started may be good.
>
> Thanks,
> --
>
> Timothée Ravier
>
> Red Hat & Fedora CoreOS Engineer
>
> Red Hat 
>
> trav...@redhat.comIM: travier
> 
>

Re: Getting involved in SoK

[Mariam Fahmy]

Hello,
Thanks alot for helping me.
I have basically understand what you have provided me, what next step shall
I do to start in this project?
Thanks in advance.

On Mon, 9 Nov 2020, 3:40 pm Aleix Pol,  wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 7:37 PM Mariam Fahmy 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > Thanks alot for your advice.
> > I have installed the project locally and I start discovering how
> backends work with codebase.
> > I have understood but I am missing things.
> > After doing some research and gathering information, here's what I can't
> clearly understand: (Sorry if questions are little bit silly)
>
> Hi Mariam,
> No need to worry, feel free to ask away.
>
> > 1- what does it mean by resource?
> > When I searched about it, I found that resources may be data required by
> user or requests from clients, is it right ?
>
> You can see here the class that defines a resource, should help you
> see what it represents:
>
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/blob/master/libdiscover/resources/AbstractResource.h
>
> In general, it's an asset: be it an application, a wallpaper or
> anything that can be listed and installed.
>
> > 2- to create a new resources backend we need to implement two classes,
> > The first class is the basic class which saves all created resources and
> install & remove application or cancel transactions.
> > The second class, I didn't understand it's functionality, I found that
> it is related to plugins but didn't understand it.
>
> The second important one is the resource I just mentioned above.
> Please explain a bit more what you don't understand.
>
> > 3-Filters in the base class: its target to filter the new requested
> resources?
>
> filters we just use when searching, to see what's being searched.
> In the case of this project it shouldn't be very important, since we
> will just be listing a system image.
>
> > 4- for each new resource backend, it should include all the methods of
> base class, right?
> > As these methods acts as properties for each new resource.
>
> You need to implement all the abstract (i.e. virtual = 0) methods. The
> rest of virtuals you can override if you want to give it a different
> functionality.
>
> > 5- I have searched about plugins, but I didn't fully understand it,
> plugins enable programmers to update host program while keeping the user
> within the program's environment, but I can't understand what is the role
> of plugins here if we receive new requests and make new resources?
> > It is meant that while creating a new resource, we need plugin in order
> to keep the user with the program's environment without altering it or
> affecting it while creating new resources?
>
> It's just a way to build the applications so the whole project doesn't
> depend on a specific technology. You can see the ones we implement
> right now here:
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/tree/master/libdiscover/backends
>
> This project should be adding a new OSTreeRPMBackend folder in here
> that will only take care of this one implementation.
>
> I hope this helps,
> Aleix
>

Re: Getting involved in SoK

[Mariam Fahmy]

Hello,
Thanks alot for your advice.
I have installed the project locally and I start discovering how backends
work with codebase.
I have understood but I am missing things.
After doing some research and gathering information, here's what I can't
clearly understand: (Sorry if questions are little bit silly)

1- what does it mean by resource?
When I searched about it, I found that resources may be data required by
user or requests from clients, is it right ?

2- to create a new resources backend we need to implement two classes,
The first class is the basic class which saves all created resources and
install & remove application or cancel transactions.
The second class, I didn't understand it's functionality, I found that it
is related to plugins but didn't understand it.

3-Filters in the base class: its target to filter the new requested
resources?

4- for each new resource backend, it should include all the methods of base
class, right?
As these methods acts as properties for each new resource.

5- I have searched about plugins, but I didn't fully understand it,
plugins enable programmers to update host program while keeping the user
within the program's environment, but I can't understand what is the role
of plugins here if we receive new requests and make new resources?
It is meant that while creating a new resource, we need plugin in order to
keep the user with the program's environment without altering it or
affecting it while creating new resources?

Sorry for annoying you.
Thanks in advance.

On Fri, 6 Nov 2020, 4:00 am Aleix Pol,  wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 9:36 PM Mariam Fahmy 
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I am Mariam, I am studying computer engineering, I am beginner and I
> want to get involved in the open source community, I have good knowledge in
> c++, OOP, data structure and algorithms.
> > I have read all projects provided by SoK, I am interested in Plasma
> discover rpm-ostree backend, what contributions shall I start related to
> this project to fully understand it and get familiar with it?
> > Any advice will be very helpful.
> > Thanks in advance
>
> Hi Mariam,
> Glad you are interested in this project, I'm one of the people who put
> the idea forward.
>
> I'd say a good first step would be to install the project locally and
> tinker with it a bit:
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/
>
> You can also read up on how discover backends work within the codebase.
> This would be a good starting point:
>
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/discover/-/blob/master/libdiscover/resources/AbstractResourcesBackend.h
>
> For any further questions don't hesitate to ask directly.
> Aleix
>

Getting involved in SoK

[Mariam Fahmy]

Hello,
I am Mariam, I am studying computer engineering, I am beginner and I want
to get involved in the open source community, I have good knowledge in c++,
OOP, data structure and algorithms.
I have read all projects provided by SoK, I am interested in Plasma
discover rpm-ostree backend, what contributions shall I start related to
this project to fully understand it and get familiar with it?
Any advice will be very helpful.
Thanks in advance