• Name: Gilles Fernandez

• Email: gilles.fernandez10@gmail.com

• Background: I am currently a student in second year at the «Haute Ecole de la Province de Liège, INPRES» (university level) in Belgium. I follow the formation in Computer Science and Systems, with networks and telecommunications option, in bachelor degree. I have coded daily in C for 4 years, C++ for 1 year, C# for 1 year and java for 1 year. My favorite language is definitely the C one, and the low level programmation. I also enjoy algorithmics. I haven’t yet participated in an open source project, but I really feel concerned about it, and would like to give all I can to take part in this wonderful community.
• Project Title: Support to diversions in DPKG
• Synopsis: Update and replace the obsolete dpkg-divert command.
• Benefits to Debian: A more stable, complete and powerful packaging system.
• Deliverables: Both new and transitionnal documentation, besides a new control file.
• Project details: I will follow the idea proposal [1].
• Project schedule:
  1. [april 27th to may 1st] Meet the Mentors, read the documentation and test the actual dpkg-divert command. Write all my observations.
  2. [may 2nd to 11th] Read the actual code and self document, and comment it to keep a better approach, later on.
  3. [may 12th to 23rd] Talk with the Mentors about the possible improvements and new features, and how to code them. Moreover, write and maybe start to code all of these ideas. Plan and write the next schedule for July to August.
  4. [may 24th to june 21st] My exams will take place, but I want to keep the project in mind.
  5. [june 22nd to july 15th] Code as much as possible to be on time for the mid-term evaluation. I will be more precise with the schedule that I will have planned in may (working a lot does not scare me at all).
  6. [july 16th to august 15th] depending on the schedule that I will have planned in may.
• Exams and other commitments and other summer plans: I have some projects for school that I plan to finish for april 27th (or even 25th, if I can). Then I would have one month to start the project. And then I have exams between the 1st and 21st of june. After that, I will have a lot of time to work on coding the project. My plans for holidays aren’t yet fixed, apart from a possible 4 days trip at the end of july.
• Other plans for Debian after GSoC: I will continue to maintain and improve the project and wish I could become an official Debian Maintainer.

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2011/DeclarativeDiversions