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 🤩. I owe a big thank you to my mentor, Daniel, for providing me with this wonderful opportunity. I am extremely grateful. I understand that not everyone is fortunate enough to have such a good and kind mentor. ...

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. Anyways, I will enjoy the rest of the time. ...

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. I am very grateful for having such a mentor. Thanks Daniel. ...

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 · 670 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

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. I have explained about the work to be done in my previous post please refer to it. ...

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

GSoC: Week5

Hi, I was supposed to write this (week5) blog 6 days back, as you know, I am lagging and I will soon write another blog which is week6. Where I shall discuss about my evalutaion, whats and hows. In this blog, let me share week5’s work :rocket:, I am really excited, because I have done some decent work in week5. Overview I have been working on test_python.py ever since I started my GSoC project and I have covered almost 95% of the tests. There are only 2 more binaries left for this test to be covered with mock tests. After completly mocking tests in test_python.py, I would have mocked and removed 10+ binaries. ...

July 9, 2023 · 3 min · 453 words · Afrid Hussain