Hi everyone, If Gary and anyone else are free some time, maybe we can have a conversation on IRC/Google Hangouts to discuss future prospects of Bloodhound, GSoC and how to gain some momentum ?
cheers, Kunaal On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 12:23 AM, kunaal jain <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gary, > > Sorry for disappearing this week. I was caught up in college > activities. I am still very much interested and serious about it. > > I am looking in the starter tickets and wondering what are relevant > now since everything I look at it 2-3 years old? > > Gary, I have experience in open source, so won't be much of a burden I > assume I will be in mentoring ;) > > cheers, > Kunaal > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 2:38 AM, Gary <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > For Kunaal's request to be viable we need to start getting some momentum > > back into development. In addition, although I expect to be able to take > > on all the responsibility for mentoring a student, I believe that we > > would require a second mentor who is also on the PMC. As that suggests > > such a person is required to ensure that a GSoC student is looked after > > if the main mentor becomes unexpectedly unavailable. Of course, if the > > second mentor wanted to be equally involved, that would be even better. > > > > So, if anyone is interested in helping out as a mentor, or has time to > > make some progress with development, please let us know. > > > > Cheers, > > Gary > > > > > > On Tue, 12 Jan 2016, at 10:13 AM, Gary wrote: > >> Hi again Kunaal, > >> > >> OK, thanks for letting me know that. Obviously I don't want to spoil > >> your chances of getting a GSoC project so hopefully we can get a clear > >> picture for you as soon as possible. In the meantime, I hope that we can > >> provide you with some value by getting more experience of interacting > >> with an open source project. > >> > >> If you want to look for yourself, for a start you should investigate > >> here: https://issues.apache.org/bloodhound/wiki/BloodhoundContributing > >> > >> You may also want to take a look at some previous GSoC projects to see > >> what was made. > >> > >> Cheers, > >> Gary > >> > >> > >> On 12/01/16 09:02, kunaal jain wrote: > >> > Hi Gary, > >> > > >> > Thanks for the encouraging words. I just setup the dev environment for > >> > bloodhound and installed it. > >> > > >> > If you guys have tasks in mind which I can hack on, and improve, this > >> > will be great for me to get acquainted with the codebase, and will be > >> > beneficial for taking up GSoC project in bloodhound in future under > >> > you. > >> > > >> > Thanks, but since I have college side by side currently, I don't think > >> > I can manage to talk to another project/organisation, if I can find > >> > tasks and project to work in here. > >> > > >> > Cheers, > >> > Kunaal > >> > > >> > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 12:39 AM, Gary <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> On 10/01/16 13:03, kunaal jain wrote: > >> >>> Hi, > >> >>> > >> >>> Going by the mailing list and commit history, the project has slowed > >> >>> down for quite some time now. Is there any reason for this? or just > >> >>> lack of time? > >> >>> > >> >>> If the project maintainers can commit some time, I am interested in > >> >>> contributing and hopefully apply for a project under it in GSoC > 2016. > >> >>> > >> >> Hi Kunaal, > >> >> > >> >> I am very happy to see people taking an interest in contributing the > the > >> >> project despite the current slowdown in development. I would be > certainly be > >> >> willing to consider mentoring a project for a GSoC in 2016 if the > current > >> >> lull in development can be overcome. > >> >> > >> >> I don't expect you to only be talking to Apache Bloodhound for > potential > >> >> GSoC at this stage of course. If there are any areas of Bloodhound > that you > >> >> are interested in working on, let us know and I can try to help. > >> >> > >> >> Cheers, > >> >> Gary > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Cheers, > >> Gary > >> > > > > -- > Regards, > Kunaal Jain > -- Regards, Kunaal Jain
