[Debian-salsa-ci] Introducing myself and sharing my progress (GSoC Contributor Candidate)

[Santiago Ruano Rincón]

Hello Ahmed,

El 22/03/24 a las 20:19, Ahmed Siam escribió:
> Hi,
> 
> I am Ahmed Siam, a second-year computer science student at Ain
> Shams University in Egypt. I am interested in contributing to
> Salsa CI as part of Google Summer of Code 2024 program.

Thanks for your interest in the Salsa CI project proposal!
And welcome to the Debian community :-)

> 
> I have been using Debian-based distros for several years as my main
> desktop OS (I currently use Kubuntu 22.04 LTS), so I am interested in
> contributing at Debian as it is the base so improving it
> means improving my desktop OS.
> 
> This article has motivated me more to contribute as it is also an
> opportunity to improve my technical and non-technical skills and
> communicate with highly-skilled developers:
> https://wiki.debian.org/WhyDebianForDevelopers
> 
> I am specifically interested in Salsa CI because it is related to
> DevOps/SRE field which is a field I am interested in taking some
> hands-on experience in.
> 
> During the last period, I have:
> - Read the Salsa CI project idea description in Debian GSoC Ideas Page.
> - Watched the two events and read the article mentioned
>   in the project idea description.
> - Learned the basics of Debian packaging through this tutorials:
>     - https://wiki.debian.org/SimplePackagingTutorial
>     - https://wiki.abrahamraji.in/simple-packaging-tutorial.html
> - Took a look at Salsa CI Issues
> - Took an idea about the GitLab pipeline and ran a basic pipeline.

Good!

> What I will be doing:
> - Learning more about GitLab pipelines
>     - Mainly through this tutorial:
>         https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/quick_start/tutorial.html
> - Learning more about Salsa CI
> - Trying to run the pipeline successfully
>     - I have tried that before several times in different
>       packages, but it always failed for some reason.
>     - runs I tried:
>         - https://salsa.debian.org/ahmedsiam/lttoolbox/-/pipelines
>         - https://salsa.debian.org/ahmedsiam/node-pretty-ms/-/pipelines
>         - https://salsa.debian.org/ahmedsiam/minissdpd/-/pipelines
>     - If those failures continue without progress, I will ask a
>       question about that.

OK, don't hesitate to ask!

> - Looking more at the project Issues and Choosing one to solve.

Also, if you ever find any new issue, please, feel free to create an
issue and work on it.

> 
> Some of my background skills:
> Linux Command Line Basics - C++ - Python - Java&JavaFX - DSA - OOP -
> Git&GitHub - JavaScript Basics - SQL&SQLite -
> Tornado Web Framework Basics
> 
> Things I had little experience with it (Used it but not enough to even
> call it basics level skill):
> GNU Autotools - Docker - Bash - SFML - ICU4C

From the above, bash and docker are probably the most relevant in our
project.

> 
> I have participated in GSoC 2023 as a contributor before.
> My GSoC Project was about the internationalization of Apertium tools.
> (Mainly using C++ and ICU4C Library)
> For more details:
> https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2023/projects/0lVWglOx
> 
> My Accounts:
> - Debian Wiki: https://wiki.debian.org/AhmedSiam
> - GitHub: https://github.com/ahmedsiam0
> - Salsa: https://salsa.debian.org/ahmedsiam
> - GitLab: https://gitlab.com/ahmedsiam
> 
> I am looking forward to contributing with you all.
> 
> Regards,
> Ahmed Siam

Thank you, Ahmed! Don't hesitate also to share with us how are you
planing to structure your application.

Cheers,

 -- Santiago
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