[GSoC] I'm interested in participating and need some guides

[Chunyang Xu]

Hi list,

My name is Chunyang Xu. I'm a 3rd year student of Southeast University,
Nanjing, China. My major is electronic science and technolog. I am
interested in working with Macports for GSoC 2015.

I have some knowledge in C and Emacs Lisp, I teach myself how to
programming. I have my personal open source projects hosting on Github
(see https://github.com/xuchunyang if you are interested). I've been a
Mac OS X user about one year, before that, I'd used GNU/Linux for more
than two years, I also worked for GNOME as a GSoC student last year. My
English is also limited because I don't have any chance to use it execpt
while I'm programming, but reading and writing basic English is fine.

I've already get start on preparing several days ago. For now, I've
installed MacPorts from svn sources and read some svn and Tcl
tutorials. But I am not sure if I am too late to prepare, am I?

Currently, I am interested in two potential ideas:
1. Improve fetching from version control
2. Improve startupitem code

It's clear for me what purpose they want to achieve just according to
their title and description, even I haven't yet have a detailed
understanding of these two ideas.

I plan to learn more about them during my free time. I want to let you
guys know my situation and I will be very gald if anyone can give soem
suggestion for me to get familir with MacPorts's codebase quickly, for
example, where to find some bugs which are easy to fix for beginner.

Thanks for reading.

Best!

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Chunyang Xu