Hi! I also have an idea for a GSoC or Outreachy internship.
Debian's Debtag project allows anybody with an account to tag packages. [1] At this year's DebConf, we've worked on creating specific tags concerning privacy issues of packages [2]. This allows to say for example that a certain package uses a deprecated cryptographic algorithm, or that a program accesses the network without the user's consent [3]. We've based these tags on F-Droid's list of anti-features. Whenever a user tries to install a package from F-Droid, they can see this list of anti-features and decide for themselves if they want to install the package. For Debian, we would like to implement a very similar display in Gnome Software and apt. I think this could be a valuable intern project. It would allow interns to understand Debian's inner functioning, and provide Debian users with a great functionality. I can help finding a mentor knowledgeable in apt/Gnome for such a project and could co-mentor such a thing (if needed). Cheers, Ulrike [1] https://debtags.debian.org/ [2] https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/PkgPrivacyMaintainers#Tag_packages [3] as an example, gnome-calculator fetching currency conversion rates: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-calculator/issues/34 [4] https://f-droid.org/wiki/page/AntiFeatures
