Re: [Tracker] GSOC
On Wed, 2019-05-08 at 01:00 +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote: > On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 12:26 AM Mahmoud Nagy via tracker-list > wrote: > > I wasn't selected from tracker as gsoc member, if possible can you > > provide some feedback to learn more from the experience. > > I'm afraid that is not possible... The explanation is tragically > mundane: I missed google's deadline, somehow I marked it for tomorrow > in my calendar. That is indeed mundane. A little bit sad, for Mahmoud. To you, Mahmoud: also my apologizes. > This is surely not any comforting, it is my fault and I profoundly > apologize. I hope that this doesn't deter your trajectory in Free > software, and that we will see more contributions from you. I think we should make an attempt to be better at this, so that this wont happen in future. In which ways can alumni Tracker developers assist you? I saw the request for Mahmoud's GSoc Proposal review in April and I noticed Sam's reply to it. I figured all is Quiet on the Western Front and that I could go on with my daily activities. I didn't realize some kind of action could have been assisted with. ps. I used to be GSoc mentor when GSoc was still a very young project. So I know there is some amount of work involved in getting a student through the process. I have no idea how it is like today. Last time I wanted to help out, I needed a GMail account. I wasn't willing to get myself such an account, but the people from Google accommodated me. Not sure if it's easily doable to be of any assistance without such a GMail account? Kind regards, Philip signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
Re: [Tracker] GSOC
Hi Mahmoud, On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 12:26 AM Mahmoud Nagy via tracker-list wrote: > > I wasn't selected from tracker as gsoc member, if possible can you provide > some feedback to learn more from the experience. I'm afraid that is not possible... The explanation is tragically mundane: I missed google's deadline, somehow I marked it for tomorrow in my calendar. This is surely not any comforting, it is my fault and I profoundly apologize. I hope that this doesn't deter your trajectory in Free software, and that we will see more contributions from you. Regards, Carlos ___ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
Re: [Tracker] GSOC Proposal Review
Hi Mahmoud, In general the proposal looks OK. Carlos might have more comments. One thing I'm particularly interested in is automated testing. I don't expect that we know exactly how the "on-demand indexing" feature would be implemented at this point. But before the project starts, we should have a basic idea of what (if any) new API will be added, and how it will be tested when the CI runs `meson test`. Sam On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 7:08 PM Mahmoud Nagy via tracker-list < tracker-list@gnome.org> wrote: > My Proposal :) > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oZ8R4SeMcCU6LtWNUjgtFwLB7YQgq0lgtosz7Z0r7vY/edit?usp=sharing > > On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 7:01 PM Mahmoud Nagy wrote: > >> Hello Mentors, >> I'm Mahmoud Nagy from Helwan University in Cairo Egypt, I want to join >> GSOC under tracker-miners project, please, review my proposal, and please >> if possible provide feedback for how to enhance it, red font answers for >> questions I couldn't have a solid answer for. >> >> Thanks. >> Mahmoud Nagy >> irc: nagy >> gitlab: nagyation >> > ___ > tracker-list mailing list > tracker-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list > ___ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
Re: [Tracker] GSOC Proposal Review
My Proposal :) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oZ8R4SeMcCU6LtWNUjgtFwLB7YQgq0lgtosz7Z0r7vY/edit?usp=sharing On Sun, Apr 7, 2019 at 7:01 PM Mahmoud Nagy wrote: > Hello Mentors, > I'm Mahmoud Nagy from Helwan University in Cairo Egypt, I want to join > GSOC under tracker-miners project, please, review my proposal, and please > if possible provide feedback for how to enhance it, red font answers for > questions I couldn't have a solid answer for. > > Thanks. > Mahmoud Nagy > irc: nagy > gitlab: nagyation > ___ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
Re: [Tracker] GSOC Project Idea
Hi all.. I am Sumit, third year Computer Science student from India. I am very much enthusiastic about contributing for gnome, in google SoC'10. I have come up with a project idea, which I wish to work on. Description: I would like to develop a "User friendly Command Search Tool" which gives users facility to search for a specific command offline. The user can give a text input related to the command. The tool will generate a list of commands with description, sorted based on relevance. Currently, to search for a command we can do man -k or apropos or whatis , which searches for keywords in a set of database files containing short description of system commands and displays the result in standard output. But the results obtained are plenteous or sometimes empty and are alphabetically sorted. So it becomes very painful to find the expected command. Take for an example, when I search for "list content of directories" ==> empty result "file compression" ==> empty result "compression" ==> 15 results(not sorted by relevance) Benefits: This tool can be very useful for newbies who are not familiar with linux commands. In such cases they have to google to get the command they want. But in case of offline users they have no choice but to look into linux reference manuals. To Do: 1) Ranking the results based on relevance (developing a ranking algorithm) 2) Making a GUI for the tool, which displays the results in a user friendly manner, categorizing the results. 3) Use data from linux forums to estimate the popularity and usage of command. 4) Do natural language processing of the input text, to give good search results. These are my initial thoughts of my idea. I would very much appreciate, if I could receive some feedback on my idea and whether this can be feasible for google SoC proposal. I am also looking for mentors, who might be interested in this idea. - With regards, Sumit Ranjan ___ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
