Re: Google Summer of Code student application

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <56DD840B.6070107%gmail.com@localhost>, youri  <youri.mout%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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>Hi all,
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>I'm a student starting a masters degree in computer science next year
>and wish to participate in Google Summer of Code 2016.
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>My main focus is software packaging with pkgsrc: I maintain 76 packages
>including the Xfce4 desktop. I also enjoy programming, especially C.
>So, I wish to work on the 'pkgin improvements' project:
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>	https://wiki.netbsd.org/projects/project/pkgin_improve/
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>I'm familiar with the NetBSD way of doing things and I have already
>contributed some code to pkgin and have worked with the current pkgin
>maintainers iMil and jperkin before when submitting PRs. My interests
>are making multi-repository more solid and improve usability as well as
>robustness and closing bug reports and pull requests to aid maintenance.
>I also wish to add a script in src to bootstrap pkgin after NetBSD
>installation rather than having to install explicitly from sysinst.
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>The project will be a good way for me to learn some more programming and
>to improve pkgin, a tool that many people use accross many different
>platforms. In my opinion, it is vital that pkgin gets more robust and
>more user friendly.
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That sounds great!

christos