Hello,
I'm Ana Badescu, and I'm a first year Artificial Intelligence graduate at Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, looking to participate in GSOC 2015, hopefully with Mailman!
You might believe that I arrived late. However, I have just installed the mailman client, mailman core and the Postorius and got them up and running in their own env. Can't believe how straight-forward it was! Once I'm done reading the contribution guides, I'll pick a few bugs to get a better idea of how the codebase is structured.
As this is my first GSoC try, I admit I was a bit at a loss facing the huge diversity of organisations and projects.
Honestly, there are three reasons that I chose Mailman over:
- it involves areas that I am familiar with and I enjoy working on (Python)
- I started looking at the organisation list and project list on day one. At least in my opinion, Mailman has one of the most friendly getting-started guides out there.
- I found the Javascript client project being interesting to me. I do have quite a lot of experience with node.js, enough to say there is a love-hate relationship when it comes down to using it in projects. I'm actually doing my graduation thesis in node. I think it's great idea to get a Javascript client going, it will be well received by the community as there are a lot of devs that work solely with js and maybe a few frontend technologies. Kind of sad but true. I've also set up a number of RESTful interfaces before, specially in hackathons where the team members are each using different technologies.
I have mentioned this because I am definitely willing to learn and work, but I'm trying my best not to do this in the wrong direction. This project is the one that interests me the most, any advice on what should I do after getting a few patches in? Should I get a small working client going?
Could you please advice me regarding this matter?
Thank you, Ana