Apr 27, 2009
Few weeks ago I mentioned that I applied for GSoC 2009 as a student. Things have cleared up a bit and I can now say that I've been accepted (YAY!). Soon I'll start working to improve quality of my beloved Linux distribution. How best to do that than to scratch my own itch? I am now going to quote Eric S. Raymond:
Now the obvious question is...what's my itch? I've been using Gentoo happily for over 4 years now and it's getting better and better. One thing is still missing though. When emerging (that is installing) new application I never know how much space it will occupy once it's on my hard drive. I only know download size. I say that's not enough! I want to know at least a ballpark figure on size before I try to install some work of devil. However, this is not exactly focus of my project "Tree-wide collision checking and files database", but it could easily become byproduct of solution for my GSoC task. I will most probably keep blogging about my work on GSoC project. This will make it easier to sort various thoughts and make it easier to create progress reports in future. Oh..just so that I won't forget. My mentor is Andrey Kislyuk, apparently a bioinformatics PhD student interested in privacy and security. I better get to know him better, seems like and interesting person :-).
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.This quote is from one of most interesting books written on Software engineering, specifically with Open-Source in mind. C'mon! I know you know the book! Yes you guessed right, it's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".
Now the obvious question is...what's my itch? I've been using Gentoo happily for over 4 years now and it's getting better and better. One thing is still missing though. When emerging (that is installing) new application I never know how much space it will occupy once it's on my hard drive. I only know download size. I say that's not enough! I want to know at least a ballpark figure on size before I try to install some work of devil. However, this is not exactly focus of my project "Tree-wide collision checking and files database", but it could easily become byproduct of solution for my GSoC task. I will most probably keep blogging about my work on GSoC project. This will make it easier to sort various thoughts and make it easier to create progress reports in future. Oh..just so that I won't forget. My mentor is Andrey Kislyuk, apparently a bioinformatics PhD student interested in privacy and security. I better get to know him better, seems like and interesting person :-).
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