Hi Kevin and the SpamAssassin Dev community, First of all I would like to thank the SpamAssassin dev-community for helping me out with the issues. Here is the temporary draft of my proposal GSOC 2018 Proposal <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XXtTL2jzrJOUZaAg052bDA6hp848AUOMJCJMYDiD7_I/edit#>
Following Headers are still to be done in the proposal: Deliverables Criteria of Success Scheduling/Timeline Testing Methodology Please help me out with these headers. Please suggest any more headers that needed to be added Please rigorously review it and suggest any changes that I should make. Awaiting a favorable response. Thanks Saahil Sirowa B. Tech Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 6:49 PM, Kevin A. McGrail <kmcgr...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Saahil, > > Building on Dave's great response. > > 1 - I would submit links in email to the dev list. > > 2 - You may plagiarize those resources freely to build your proposal. It > wouldn't hurt to credit the links to the work in your proposal as this is > Open Source work and it will help other people build on your work. > > 3 - As long as GSOC is fine with it, the SA community and myself as a > mentor see no problem with it. > > 4 - This mailing list is where you should ask questions. Dave Jones > responded in a great way to get you started. > > Thanks for the status update! And thanks for considering the project. > Learning more about email security and anti-spam as well as open source can > be a great career move so tell other students to look at our Jira tickets > and consider applying too. > > Best, > KAM > > > -- > Kevin A. McGrail > Asst. Treasurer & VP Fundraising, Apache Software Foundation > Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project > https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 2:06 AM, Saahil Sirowa <cs16btech11...@iith.ac.in> > wrote: > >> Hi Kevin, >> I have a few questions regarding the GSoC project. They goes as follows:- >> 1) How am I supposed to share my first draft with the community. Should I >> post the link in the mail or submit it on Apache website? >> 2) Can I take some ideas from this https://bz.apache.org/Spa >> mAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7287 >> 3) I have a very busy schedule at my college right now. Will it be okay >> if I start my contribution with an easy to fix bug after the proposal >> submission(around the end of April). I will mention this in the proposal. >> 4) Is there any way which can help me to understand the role of different >> files and folders in SpamAssassin source code. >> >> Progress Status: I have started drafting the proposal. >> >> With Regards >> Saahil Sirowa >> Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 2:25 AM, Kevin A. McGrail <kmcgr...@apache.org> >> wrote: >> >>> HI Saahil, nice to meet you. >>> >>> Working on the Apache SpamAssassin project especially on a statistical >>> classifier is an excellent choice for a student GSOC student. >>> >>> For this and the ticket 267 that you also expressed interest in, you've >>> taken the correct step to engage the developer community for the project. >>> >>> Your first step is to go to https://community.apache.org/gsoc.html and >>> make sure you read the "Students Read this Section" >>> >>> The second step is discussion and to start drafting your proposal. I'm >>> a fan of using Google Docs and spreadsheets because it allows for easy >>> sharing and collaborative work on documents. I'd likely recommend >>> >>> For the bugs, the auto-linking is adding the comma so use >>> https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7287 >>> >>> We'll want you to discuss progress (designs, code, etc.) early on with >>> the rest of the community here on this list so you don't run into major >>> problems later on. And this will be where you post questions and I'll be >>> here to make sure people are nice, don't flame you and your questions make >>> sense. >>> >>> For others reading this, we could use more mentors for the program to >>> help! Anyone willing to be a backup mentor? >>> >>> Regards, >>> KAM >>> >>> -- >>> Kevin A. McGrail >>> Asst. Treasurer & VP Fundraising, Apache Software Foundation >>> Chair Emeritus Apache SpamAssassin Project >>> https://www.linkedin.com/in/kmcgrail - 703.798.0171 <(703)%20798-0171> >>> >>> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:19 PM, Saahil Sirowa < >>> cs16btech11...@iith.ac.in> wrote: >>> >>>> Hello, I m Computer Science and Engineering student at IITH. I would >>>> like to work on the above mentioned project during GSoC 2018. I have >>>> started getting myself familiar with the codebase. Can you give me some >>>> pointers about how to proceed after that. What is the best medium to >>>> discuss my proposal ideas. >>>> >>>> >>>> link: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMDEV-268?page=com.at >>>> lassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel >>>> &focusedCommentId=16395113#comment-16395113 >>>> >>> >>> >> >
