This project sounds great. I'll have to have a look at the project brief, sounds like something I'd be interested in :)
-- - devoxel GSOC Student at Debian On 12 July 2016 at 22:09, Lucas Moura <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > First of all, sorry for the delay on both reports. With that said, on week > 06 I have successfully added the feature on AppRecommender that allows it > to display which user packages generated a recommendation. Furthermore, I > have also able to built and execute KDE Discover from source. > > On week 07, I had attended DebConf. It was a really good experience and it > was possible not only to interact with my mentor, but also speak with the > AppStream mentor as well. During DebConf I was able to complete the > AppRecommender package, which can now be found on Debian unstable with the > name of apprecommender. > > While also in DebConf, I was able to talk with the AppStream mantainer > about how the application should handle recommendations. Although the > format we found was not the best one for AppRecommender, I think that > implementing a new strategy to handle this format will not be too hard. > > This week, I intend to finish my patch to AppStream and maybe improve some > aspects on the AppRecommender package. Currenlty, all the files generated > by AppRecommender are stored in the user HOME dir. However, I think that > can be improved. > > I will also present AppRecommender and my GSOC experience in a free > software conference in Brazil, named FISL. The talk will be a basic > presentation of what is AppRecommender and how can anyone contribute with > it. And the GSOC one will be a presentation on what is the program about, > why someone should try to participate and my experience on the Debian > project during the program. > > -- > Lucas Moura >
