GSoc 2016 Introduction

[Pedro Giffuni]

On 03/19/16 13:34, Robin Guzniczak wrote:
> On 03/18/2016 10:12 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>> Hello Robin;
>>
>> Thank you for introducing yourself[1] and for considering the
>> "KDE front-end to the freebsd-update utility" project.
>>
>> I have been trying to think of a mentor but it is not easy to find.
>> I have also been thinking that while freebsd-update remains an
>> important and easy way to update FreeBSD, the technology will
>> probably change when we move towards a packaged world in
>> FreeBSD 11. It would probably be more interesting to have an
>> enhanced graphical pkg[2] manager.
>>
>> Perhaps some pkg maintainer would be willing to mentor?
>>
>> [1]
>> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?56E9A108.7030304
>> [2]
>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/pkgng-intro.html
>
> Thank you very much for your interest.
>
> I agree with you, and I also think that a graphical pkg manager
> would be more useful to the community. This is a very
> interesting project for me and I would gladly work on it.
>
> I already started writing my draft proposal[1]. I am really
> motivated in coding for FreeBSD this summer and I hope
> that someone will be willing to mentor me. pkg is well
> documented so I believe I will not need too much help.
>

Hmm ...

I just noticed octopkg:

https://octopkg.wordpress.com/

Which doesn't mean there is no space for competition (?).

Pedro.