[gsoc] Project Proposal-ShrinkWrap Tasks

[Andrew Lee Rubinger]

Hi, Pawan:

I'm not ignoring you, just clearing my plate for the day here first.
:)  Will ping back!

If you have GChat, that's an informal way to ping me with simple questions too.

S,
ALR

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Pawan Dubey <pawandubey at outlook.com> wrote:
> Hi Andrew!
>
> Sorry for spamming your email, I didn't mean to do it 😊
>
> As I mentioned in the last mail, I installed JDK5 and maven worked
> flawlessly after that. (Don't you think this should be rectified, the
> dependency on a specific JRE for building the source?)
>
> After that, I ran “mvn clean install” and “mvn clean install -P stress” and
> the Build Passed with 0 failures 😃
>
> So I am able to build ShrinkWrap on my machine nicely. What’s next for me?
>
> (Also, I started reading the codebase from
> org.jboss.shrinkwrap.api.shrinkwrap file. I suppose that was the correct way
> to go?)
>
> Hope to hear back from you soon,
> Pawan
>
> Sent from Windows Mail
>
> From: Andrew Lee Rubinger
> Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎March‎ ‎3‎, ‎2014 ‎5‎:‎14‎ ‎PM
> To: Pawan Dubey
>
> Nice.
>
> Let's start out with getting you building the source and running a
> build and tests.
>
>   https://community.jboss.org/wiki/ShrinkWrapDevelopmentAndContribution
>
> Feel free to correct the poor formatting on that page; it appears some
> things got mangled when they updated the CMS software again.
>
> How do those steps work for you?  Can you execute "mvn clean install"
> and get a decent build with tests passing?
>
> Sure, you can use Windows, but I'll be able to help you a bit less,
> probably. :)
>
> S,
> ALR
>
> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:53 AM, Pawan Dubey <pawandubey at outlook.com> wrote:
>> Hi Andrew!
>>
>> Thanks for getting back, finally 😃
>>
>> Yes, I understand that I need to prove myself first and I am totally up
>> for
>> it. I am not yet familiar with the codebase so I would fist correct that
>> flaw. As far as dropping out is concerned, I would like to tell you this :
>> I
>> wont drop out.  😊
>>
>> I have much to learn and that is why I am here. I also intend to remain a
>> contributor to the project even after GSoC.  So shoot whatever proving
>> tasks
>> you have in mind for me. 😊
>>
>>
>> P.S: I am not familiar with the codebase yet, as I mentioned earlier, so
>> expect a lot of questions about setting up and building the application
>> firstly. I wont bother you too much after that bridge is crossed 😜 (First
>> of which is, can I set up the project on my windows machine or is it
>> better
>> if I do it on Linux?)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Pawan
>> Sent from Windows Mail
>>
>> From: Andrew Lee Rubinger
>> Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎March‎ ‎3‎, ‎2014 ‎1‎:‎49‎ ‎PM
>> To: Pawan Dubey
>>
>> Hi, Pawan:
>>
>> So tonight I came across both your tweet and was forwarded this email
>> from our GSoC list, which I suppose was getting filtered out
>> improperly for me.
>>
>> Apologies for the delay, but let's use this email going forward, OK?
>> :)  I want to make sure that I can remain responsive to you, and my
>> @jboss.org address receives so much mail that I can't keep up with it
>> on nights and weekends.
>>
>> Short answer: we'd love to have you involved for GSoC and I'll be
>> happy to be your mentor, provided we go forward first with a couple of
>> proving tasks.  Unfortunately, the GSoC process has its overhead and
>> we try to pre-qualify our students to ensure that we don't get
>> dropouts halfway through (and then waste what could have been someone
>> else's slot).
>>
>> Are you game if I were to assign you some getting-started tasks for
>> the ShrinkWrap project?
>>
>> S,
>> ALR
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:36 AM, Andrew Lee Rubinger <alr at jboss.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Fwd: [gsoc] Project Proposal-ShrinkWrap Tasks
>>> Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2014 17:21:03 -0500 (EST)
>>> From: Aslak Knutsen <aknutsen at redhat.com>
>>> To: Andrew Lee Rubinger <andrew.rubinger at redhat.com>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Forwarded Message -----
>>> From: "Pawan Dubey" <pawandubey at outlook.com>
>>> To: gsoc at lists.jboss.org
>>> Sent: Saturday, March 1, 2014 6:49:42 AM
>>> Subject: [gsoc] Project Proposal-ShrinkWrap Tasks
>>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am Pawan, an undergraduate Computer Science student and I find the idea
>>> of
>>> adding an RPM, RAR etc export capability to ShrinkWrap very interesting.
>>> I
>>> am willing to research and work on this project for GSoC and would like
>>> to
>>> know who to contact and how for this proposal.
>>>
>>> The assigned mentor, AL Rubinger, seems to be unreachable at the moment
>>> so
>>> some help will be really appreciated here.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Pawan
>>>
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