Hi Sarang,
I've mentored in past GSOCs so I'm interested in helping you but I am
concerned about your proposal and the SpamAssassin project. So I can't
sign off on it as-is but I'd like to see if we can fix that.
The SA project is built on plugins primarily in perl. I didn't see perl
or Redis in your proficiencies which I have no doubt you can learn but
I'd like to know more about your plans with that.
You also mentioned a data set and I'm not sure what data set you plan to
use for testing. Additionally, what resources do you have to develop
and test this code on? These may be simple or difficult hurdles but
they merit attention.
Just replacing spamassassin where rspamd exists doesn't really mean the
Project Proposal is ready to go because of things like the plugin
language (not lua), etc.
Can you look at SA and delve a bit more into the end goal with your
proposal for SA? I understand completely if this isn't a fit so don't
hesitate to bow out.
regards,
KAM
On 4/3/2015 1:06 PM, Sarang Shrivastava wrote:
Hello all,
I am Sarang Shrivastava, an open source enthusiast from MNNIT,
Allahabad,India.
While applying for this year's GSOC I committed a blunder, in the
initial phase I was interested in working with the RSPAMD organisation
( Basically a SPAM filter ) and was working on the idea of
"IMPLEMENTING META-STATISTIC ALGORITHMS".
But while submitting the proposal I accidentally submitted it with the
Apache software foundation.
I asked the mentors of both Rspamd and Apache to somehow transfer my
proposal to Rspamd but this can't happen now.
The thing is my proposal is not organisation specific.Any open source
spam filtering project that does not has this idea can take the
advantage of it.I went through the Spamassasin wiki page and found out
that it only has Bayesian filtering as statistical classification
technique, but the other machine learning methods that I have listed
in my proposal could surprisingly increase the efficiently of
the spam filtering process.
So, it would really be appreciating if anyone could mentor me
throughout the GSOC period. I want to work on this proposal but unless
an until anyone of you signs up as a mentor and accept my proposal in
Melange before 12th of April I cannot work on it further.
Please I kindly request if anyone among you who is interested in my
idea , please be my mentor. I am sure that given a chance to prove
myself, I would not disappoint you.
The link to my proposal is
:https://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/student/google/gsoc2015/xlr_24/5629499534213120
I have also enclosed a copy of my proposal as an attachment.
PS: In my attached proposal wherever I wrote rspamd , I have replaced
it with Spamassasin.
Cheers,
Sarang
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*Sarang Shrivastava*
*Computer Science & Engineering*
*MNNIT Allahabad*
