Fwd: Wish to contribute to MacPorts as part of GSoC

[Umesh Singla]

Hi Shreyas,

While I believe you have a good set of skills, it may be a bit too late if
you want to participate in GSoC with us. But we definitely welcome all
kinds of contribution outside GSoC and the program is going to be there
next year as well. Contributors are definitely given higher preference.

Our criteria for selection involves a strong proposal and a demo of the
student's skill set by either raising a PR to the existing code base or PoC
implementations of any idea you are proposing. This is for the mentors to
be confident about a student being productive as soon as the coding period
starts.

Nonetheless, I'd advise you to go through the March and April archives of
this mailing list [1], as there's an abundance of information available on
almost all the "hot" projects and problems MacPorts is facing.

To answer your questions, I don't think we have any idea "similar" to
collect-build-statistics but if you meant similar to a web application,
others on the list are more suitable to answer. I am not sure what you
meant by improvements to the previous collect-build-statistics project
either. We do not have any implementation until now.

(Also, please keep your emails on the mailing list to get responses quicker
and from the wider community. Subscribe if you haven't already.)

[1]: https://lists.macports.org/pipermail/macports-dev/

- Umesh

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Shreyas H N <shreyas.h at students.iiit.ac.in>
Date: Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 4:37 PM
Subject: Wish to contribute to MacPorts as part of GSoC
To: <umeshksingla at gmail.com>


Hello Umesh,

I am Shreyas H N, a PG1 student at IIIT Hyderabad. I found your contact on
the MacPorts GSoC page. "Collect build statistics" project caught my eye
and I believe I am competent enough to develop significant stuff in this
domain.

A short introduction about me:
I completed my Btech at M S Ramaiah University, Bangalore. I used
throughout Linux my undergrad. Just before I joined masters at IIITH, I
switched to Mac. I am a strong believe in the Growth "Mindset".
A few projects I am proud of:
1. MapRedue framework implementation from scratch (C++). WordCount and
InvertedPage index.
2. Machine Learning intern at IISc SERC in 2017 summer.
3. "mini BitTorrent"
4. DropBox clone



 Web development experience
1. Built "DropBox clone" web application using Flask, Bootstrap.
2. Task Management web application using ASP.NET as part of my internship
at MOOG in 2016
3. Developed a responsive website for my father's firm in 2015 (
www.nagarajassociates.in). This was my very first web development project

Other info:
1. Have been using git from the past year (Projects: Mapreduce,
Bittorrrent, Terminal file explorer, Dropbox and all assignments.
https://github.com/hiteshkaushik28/MapReduce_Project )
2. I was a Machine Learning intern at IISc in 2017.
3. I am a newbie to the OpenSource world but I have already experienced
that it is filled with passionate and humble people who love collaborating.

Work I have done so far:
1. Saw the code base introduction video on youtube (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46qshiDskrM)
2. Went through certain portions of the guide.
3. Read the project ideas and chose "Build Statistics"

Currently I am brain storming how I can modify/improve this "Collect build
statistics" idea to prepare my project proposal.

My questions to you:
1. If you have any idea similar to "Collect build statistics", do suggest.
2. Do you think it is a good idea for me to propose only improvements to
the previous "Collect build statistics" GSoC project?
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