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I’m Afrid, a software engineer who loves to play with linux systems and contribute to open source. I am currently focused on learning system programming. I use vim BTW!

Google Summer of Code

GSoC: Week12

Welcome back to the final weekly report of Google Summer of Code 2023 - it’s Week 12! I am feeling both happy and sad. Sad because GSoC is coming to an end, and happy because I have successfully completed my GSoC journey! Just a few hours ago, I submitted my GSoC Final Evaluation form. This week has been amazing. I had the opportunity to visit the SUSE Office in Bangalore 🤩....

August 27, 2023 · 2 min · 279 words · Afrid Hussain

GSoC: week11

Hello and welcome back! In this blog post, I would like to share my progress during the 11th week of Google Summer of Code. I have some exciting news! Progress [###########..] tl;dr: This week has been amazing; my pull request got merged! During this week, I worked on documenting the new test suite and made a few enhancements as reviewed by my mentor. For more information, take a look at the review....

August 19, 2023 · 1 min · 194 words · Afrid Hussain

GSoC: Week10

Welcome back to the. In this blog, I would like to share my week10 progress of Google Summer of Code with OpenSUSE. Firstly, I can’t stop worrying about the end of Google Summer of Code, GSoC has given me so much. I learnt good stuff from my mentor, I learned new technologies and many other soft skill and at the same time I was enjoying the process. Its really sad that GSoC is coming to end....

August 12, 2023 · 2 min · 271 words · Afrid Hussain

GSoC: Week9

Welcome back. In this blog post, I would like to share my Google Summer of Code weekly progress for week 9. week 9, Yes, its week 9. I am already worried that GSoC is completing. GSoC has gave me lots of good experiences, first one to mention is my mentor Daniel, what a good person he is. I am all started to think I would miss video conferences with him after GSoC, but still I could atleast contact him via IRC....

August 4, 2023 · 2 min · 233 words · Afrid Hussain

GSoC: Week8

Hello, welcome back again. In this blog post, I would like to share my progress on the Google Summer of Code with OpenSUSE for the RPMLint project for week 8. As mentioned in the previous blog post, I started to work on DuplicatesCheck.py. Here is a detailed overview of my progress. Progress [########……..] For this week, I decided to focus on DuplicatesCheck.py. However, I soon realized that the tests required some additional capabilities of the FakePkg class....

July 30, 2023 · 4 min · 727 words · Afrid Hussain

GSoC: Week7

Hello Everyone, in this blog post, I would like to share my progress in the Google Summer of Code for week 7. Overview During week 7, I spent most of my time learning Linux and the command line in much greater detail. Additionally, I delved into computer networking, even though it doesn’t completely align with my GSoC project. However, I found it necessary to learn for some other purposes. Okay, now let’s see how far I’ve come in week 7....

July 30, 2023 · 2 min · 352 words · Afrid Hussain
Google Summer of Code

GSoC MID EVALUATION: PASSED 🎉

Hi, I have a great news about my Google Summer of Code Journey. I am glad to share that I have passed my Google Summer of Code Mid Evaluation. Mid evaluation is not a hard one, indeed the questions asked in the GSoC Evaluation were not more than a feedback questions. I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to my mentor, Daniel, for his invaluable support and guidance since the inception of this project....

July 17, 2023 · 1 min · 104 words · Afrid Hussain

GSoC: Week6

Hi, in this series, I have been sharing my Google Summer of Code progress, in this post I will share my progress on project rpmlint for the week6. Overview Week 6, which is the final week of the Google Summer of Code (for a standard 12 weeks) first phase, which means my project progress should also be half way through, which is not indeed. Let me explain. My project is quite a large project, definitely all the work cannot be achieved in just 12 weeks, but I make sure to complete as much as possible....

July 17, 2023 · 2 min · 390 words · Afrid Hussain