Hi Petteri and devs,<div>I&#39;m Kasun Gajasinghe, a final year undergraduate from University of Moratuwa. I&#39;m interested in contributing to Gentoo under Google Summer of Code 2011 program. </div><div><br></div><div>I&#39;ve gone through the ideas page, and found the project idea &quot;Maven integration&quot; [0] very interesting, mainly because I have a good background on that area. I&#39;ve gone through &quot;Quickstart Ebuild Guide&quot; [1] to understand how ebuilding works, and then went through Gentoo java-overlay [2] since it&#39;s a suggested approach. It&#39;s exciting to see that they are looking for new Java developers! I have already checked out the java-overlay source, and started poking around. </div>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div><div>As I understood, the main goal of the project is generating an ebuild file by parsing maven project file (POM), right? If so, I think it&#39;s better if I looked at how the current maven-based projects are integrated to Gentoo. </div>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Further, I&#39;d very much appreciate if you can provide me some directives and guide me. Specially, I&#39;m looking for documentation/articles explaining how Maven is currently used in the system, current status of Maven in java-overlay, and documentation to understand how Gentoo Java-Overlay works. Please tell me if I missed something important. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Further, I welcome any advices that you&#39;d like to give for a beginner Gentoo developer interested in contriuting.</div><div> </div><div>To justify my ability to complete the project, I thought to provide a brief introduction about my self. I&#39;m a linux-user and Ubuntu has been my default OS for few years now. I&#39;ve used different flavors including Fedora, and Kubuntu, and I&#39;m now interested in using Gentoo. I am very much competent in Java and Apache Maven and has good experience. I have used Maven for several projects of mine, along with other open sources projects am contributing. Some of the projects are hosted at Google code [3]. I&#39;ve participated for Google Summer of Code in 2010 under DocBook Open Repository and successfully completed the project [4].</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>[0] <a href="http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/soc/ideas.xml#doc_chap2_sect20">http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/soc/ideas.xml#doc_chap2_sect20</a></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>
[1] <a href="http://devmanual.gentoo.org/quickstart/index.html">http://devmanual.gentoo.org/quickstart/index.html</a></div><div>[2] <a href="http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java/">http://overlays.gentoo.org/proj/java/</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>[3] <a href="http://code.google.com/u/kasun.gajasinghe/">http://code.google.com/u/kasun.gajasinghe/</a></div><div>[4] <a href="http://blog.kasunbg.org/search/label/gsoc-2010">http://blog.kasunbg.org/search/label/gsoc-2010</a></div>
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<br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Kasun<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>~~~*******&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39;&#39;*******~~~<br>Kasun Gajasinghe,<br>University of Moratuwa,<br>Sri Lanka.<br>Blog: <a href="http://kasunbg.blogspot.com">http://kasunbg.blogspot.com</a><br>
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