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Minkush Jain

I am pursuing Google Summer of Code 2018 under Debian

GSoC Project

Title: Wizard/GUI helping new interns/students get started

Description: Overview

GSoC18 Project Details

Codebase: https://salsa.debian.org/new-contributor-wizard-team/new-contributor-wizard

My goals

From project plan email on 26 April 2018:

a) Communication - (Minkush)
- email list recommendations, joining
- mail filter setup
- email tagging/labels assistant
- contact management
- IRC setup
- XMPP setup
- top-posting configuration

d) source code scanner
- scans user's home directory for code they wrote, tries to work out
which languages they prefer

My Progress/Contributions

GSoC Progress Report (2nd Evaluation)

Redmine Link (Issues and Tasks):outreach-redmine

Week	Goal	Status (%)	Activity	Code
0	Community Bonding	n/a	Actively participated in Debian community & project's discussions through mails.
0	Community Bonding	n/a	Attended Kubecon + ?CloudNativeCon, Copenhagen	Blog
0	Blog
1	Thunderbird config	15%	Research configuration API and extensions
1	Mail filters	15%	Researched Sieve and Maildrop
1	Report and Blog
2	XMPP, JID	65%	Learned about Jabber and XMPP chat. Researched sleekxmpp documentation, JID registration and finding ways to setup for user through script
2	Report and Blog
3	XMPP	75%	Searched ways to register Jabber account on webpages. Tested a script to log in, send messages to Jabber Users	XMPP script
3	Mail filters	80%	Researched on Procmail and its syntax, and ways to filter emails on Thunderbird. Studied Mutt and Fetchmail servers.
3	Open webpages	100%	Wrote scripts for opening webpage inside GUI for Jabber registration, Thunderbird & Pidgin Download	webbrowser
3	Mailing List Subscription	50%	Wrote scripts to automate mailing list subscription & its email reply for ten Debian lists. Created a Pull request for the code.	Mailing list script individual scripts
3	Start_Here Module		Tested Salsa, Github automation python scripts using 'requests'.	Salsa 'requests' script github 'requests' script
3	Salsa Registration	80%	Wrote a script using Selenium to automate new account registration on Salsa.	Salsa script
3	Report and Blog
4	Server Program		Learned socket programming in Python through server-client model. Created a twitter bot to test data transfer on servers.	twitter bot server script
4	IRC Nickname	100%	Created a script to automate new IRC nickname registration on Freenode server.	IRC script irc test script1 irc test script2
4	Github account		Wrote a script using Selenium to automate new account registration on Github.	github script
4	Merge Request	100%	Worked on PR to improve scripts, all discussions resolved	merge request
4	Contact Management	40%	Searched on Lightning, ?SoGo, ?CardBook in Thunderbird for managing contacts and calender.
4	CardDAV/CalDAV		Learned CardDAV, CalDAV Protocols and DAVdroid app
4	Report and Blog
5	Packaging and license	90%	Did extensive research on Debian Packaging, studied DFSG license for package.
5	?CardBook Debian Package	70%	Created Debian Package for ?CardBook (Thunderbird add-on).	cardbook package
5	Policy errors	65%	Used Lintian to check and fix Debian Policy and Packaging errors. Studied DPM, DMG guides for it.	refer blog
5	Local Debian Repo	100%	Created a Local Debian Repository for testing ?CardBook Package. Changed apt-config for testing installation process	refer blog
5	Project Environment	100%	Setup Project's environment in system with dependencies, linter
5	Report and blog/packaging tutorial
6	Thunderbird process	100%	Tested some scripts to kill Thunderbird process in the system. Made one using 'psutil'	process script
6	Thunderbird Config	75%	Learned all mail, news settings and 'prefs.js' file in Mozilla Thunderbird. Created a script to customise Thunderbird settings for a user like top-posting config in mail	thunderbird script
6	Update Package	100%	Created new Cardbook version, uploaded latest 2 versions on a branch of cloned ?CardBook repository	cardbook_1.2.0
6	IRC Nickname	100%	Refactored IRC nickname script to make it work as a stand-alone script.
6	Report
7	Profiles in Mozilla		Researched on 'profiles.ini' in Mozilla and how new profiles are coded
7	Salsa suggestions		Tested new account script and mailed Maintainers for suggestions
7	GUI		Studied basics of GUI creations with Kivy, and how to add it in python scripts
7	Report
8	Thunderbird config	90%	Updated script to add feature for finding file location is users's system dynamically	path find script thunderbird config script
8	Virtual env, Pipenv	100%	Learned about Virtual environments and Pipenv in python. Added the dependencies required with my scripts in Pipefile and Pipefile.lock	pipefile pipefile.lock
8	Testing scripts	15%	Learned unittest, pytest. Working on adding pytest testing to scipts.
8	Report