How about we start recording ideas for projects on: https://wiki.debian.org/Outreachy/ideas ?
Cheers, Molly On 2018-08-16 08:07, Ulrike Uhlig wrote: > 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
