Dear mentors, Thank you for selecting me and I'm really excited about the project. I would also like to thank the MacPorts and buildbot community for resolving my queries and helping me solve problems. Looking forward to a wonderful summer! I will give my best.
Rajdeep On Tue, May 7, 2019 at 3:57 AM Mojca Miklavec <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear MacPorters, > > I'm happy to announce that MacPorts will be participating at Google's > GSOC with four awesome projects this year. > > (Those who followed the heavy traffic on the development mailing list > are probably already aware of the excessive amount of traffic we > received in March and April.) > > The selected projects are listed here: > https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/4814249782673408/ > > 1.) Ahmad Satryaji Aulia: Phase Out Xcode Dependency > Mentored by: Marcus Calhoun-Lopez, Clemens Lang > A project touching the MacPorts base should remove the need to install > full Xcode. > > 2.) Arjun Salyan: Web App (with API) to Collect PortIndex, Build > History and Installation Statistics > Mentored by: Mojca Miklavec, Umesh Singla > A standalone Django app telling you everything about individual ports. > > 3.) Karan Sheth: Automating Packaging for Macports > Mentored by: Cyril Roelandt (upt author), Renee Otten > A python package to supersede cpan2port, pypi2port etc. > > 4.) Rajdeep Bharati: Macports Custom Views Plugin for Buildbot > Mentored by: Pierre Tardy, Povilas Kanapickas (both from buildbot), > Mojca Miklavec > Upgrading our build infrastructure to the latest version of buildbot > with new and better views and other improvements. > > I would like to congratulate all the students for getting selected and > thank all the mentors, in particular the three external ones who > jumped in to help us deal with the much higher amount of good > proposals than in previous years. We could sadly not accept all the > projects that we would have wanted. > > The next three weeks are devoted to the community bonding period when > active participation of student is expected (with mentors' help) to > learn more about the tools and community, improve the planning and > potentially revise the goals and deadlines if needed, and get up to > speed for the great summer coding experience. > > Mojca >
