[Soc-coordination] Applying for improving Aptitude packages query utilities

[Daniel Burrows]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:25:00PM +0800, Sha Liu <sandyleo26 at gmail.com> was heard to say:
> I'm a graduate student and interested in the suggested project "Aptitude
> packages query UI and language". I myself is a frequent Aptitude user
> although most use are related to basic functions of Aptitude. I've written a
> small viewer used to visualize the routing and resource used in FPGA using
> MFC(under VC2003)  However, I see from the Required skills that GTK+ is
> listed. I know a little about GTK+ but never written program using it. Does
> this mean I'm not qualified for this project as a applicant? And there are 3
> projects about extension or enhancement to Aptitude, might it be possible to
> combine other projects a little because the UI may need to reflect the
> changes to Aptitude(like highlighting or history tracking)?

  GTK+ being required means that you should be familiar enough with
GTK+ by the time that the project starts to implement a prototype of
your dialog box.  Of course, all else being equal, applicants with
significant prior GTK+ experience will be preferred, but I don't know
yet what sort of applications we get.  Usually all else is not equal. :)

  Regarding merging the projects: I don't think that there's a strong
connection between the three projects I posted, and I think that
combining them would make the project too complicated and probably mean
that it didn't get finished over the summer.  I'm trying to keep the
projects fairly narrowly focused this year, to increase the odds of
having something distributable in September.

  Daniel