Hi Eduardo, First off, sorry for the late reply...I was pretty sure that I did in fact send a reply, but it's not on the mailing list archives nor is it in my outbox. Oh well.
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Eduardo Silva <edsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Vincent, > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 4:43 AM, Vincent Cheng <vincentc1...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> Just a quick introduction: I'm currently a 2nd year BSc student (major >> in Computer Science) at the University of British Columbia. I'm also a >> Debian Maintainer (for ~3 years now, see [1]) and a fairly new owner >> of one of those nifty Raspberry Pis, and lately I've been exploring >> things to do with my Pi (amongst other things, it can certainly be a >> low-power web server), which leads me to my interest with this >> project. >> >> The one thing that concerns me is that I may not have the prerequisite >> C experience for part of the project's requirements (i.e. outside of >> school projects I haven't done any programming in C); my strengths >> would mostly lie in the packaging/cross-compiling side of things (and >> perhaps other things like setting up a package repository). Would this >> still be enough to qualify me as a potential student, or would my lack >> of programming experience be a deal breaker? > > > If i understand correctly you know C due to school stuff. I think the > questions to see if you are eligible are: > > - Are you able to write a program in C (with threading) ? > - Are you familiar with Python ? > - Do you enjoy programming ? > > The program is more about coding, we dont expect the packaging will take 3 > months, so if you are capable to program in C and Python you are eligible, > and of course you must to be sure that is something that you enjoy. For the most part I actually like the packaging/QA side of things more than development. It probably doesn't help that I really don't think I have the prerequisite C skills to contribute in any meaningful way to monkey right now (FWIW, threading was only briefly mentioned in that school class I talked about), so I think it's probably better to let someone else take on this task. I see that there's currently another student who posted on the list to ask about this project, after all. I took a look at the packaging, and it seems to be in pretty good shape (I do have a few patches which I'll send to the list in a sec), so there's really not that much for me to do anyways... Regards, Vincent _______________________________________________ Monkey mailing list Monkey@lists.monkey-project.com http://lists.monkey-project.com/listinfo/monkey
