On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Alexandra Sava <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > > My name is Alexandra and I'm an undergraduate Politehnic University of > Bucharest student, from Romania. I think "Native Google Chrome > support" is a cool project. > I would like to know how can I increase my chances to be accepted. Are > there any open bugs, to get my hands on ? > I have experience with C/C++, system programming, windows and linux > environments .
hi Alexandra, thanks for writing. working on open bugs & showing your skills would definitely be worthwhile! our Ideas for GSOC page at http://www.metalinker.org/ideas.html needs some work, & should possibly be moved to our wiki. it also should be updated with smaller bite size bugs for related projects (aria2, MirrorBrain, metalink checker, DownThemAll!, Appupdater, etc) maybe adding Metalink support to axel? (although their last release was 3 years ago - you would want to contact them to see if they will be willing to do a new release). Native axel (download accelerator) support. Difficulty: Easy to Medium. Skills: C coding. Progress: Tatsuhiro has released libmetalink, a C Metalink Parser. But this will also require some axel specific code. Philipp Hagemeister, who works on Axel plans to do this. Details: Metalink support might require adding XML & checksum library dependency. and here is the bug for Metalink support in Chromium: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1751 you would want to read the bug, then post to the chromium-dev mailing list mentioned Native Google Chrome support. Importance: High. Difficulty: Easy to Medium? Skills: C++ coding. Bonus: Familiarity with libxml2, which Chrome already depends on. It uses NSS for checksums. Details: Feature request. Chromium code. There's also libmetalink. Thread on chromium-dev. -- (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metalink Discussion" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/metalink-discussion?hl=en.
