- Your name: Aditya Bhardwaj
- FAS Account: purezen
- Fedora userpage: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Purezen
Contact Information
- Email Address: aditya2204@gmail.com
- Blog URL: limitlessexpanse.wordpress.com
- Freenode IRC Nick: purezen
Why do you want to work with the Fedora Project?
It is a distribution which believes in the core principles of FLOSS and is very comforting and accommodating to newcomers.
Do you have any past involvement with the Fedora project or any other open source project as a contributor?
Yes. With Mozilla.
Ref:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784387
Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations?
No.
Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Fedora project after the GSoC 2012 program, if yes, which team(s), you are interested with?
Yes. I will hopefully keep contributing to the Fedora project after the GSoC 2013 program. I would like to contribute primarily to the Infrastructure team(Python and Ruby-based). Also, to the ARM team (Beginning by testing for my ARM chromebook).
Why should we choose you over other applicants?
I am a very passionate and persistent individual and very keen to learn about what I am pursuing. I am also a FOSS enthusiast and would like to make use of open-source software in my professional sphere. I also got engaged with Fedora for GSoC from around the time when the program was announced for 2013. (Ref: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/summer-coding/2013-March/000290.html)
I also evangelize open-source in my college.
Ref: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/93115409/Introduction%20to%20FOSS.odp
Proposal Description
An overview of your proposal
The project idea is about building upon previous years work which was about 'Implementing an RHQ-agent in Python'. Right now, OpenLMI lacks a front-end and the task would be to refine the link between the PyAgent and OpenLMI which communicates via WBEM.
The need you believe it fulfills
The RHQ agent is used to gather metrics from Fedora/RHEL hosts. This data will be then passed to an RHQ server via a REST api. The agent also needs to interface with OpenLMI. However, currently it lacks a front-end. Hopefully, this shall address the issue as far as RHQ is concerned.
Any relevant experience you have
I have coded in Python before and done work which involved talking via REST and retrieving data.
How do you intend to implement your proposal
Final deliverable of the proposal at the end of the period
A rough timeline for your progress
Any other details you feel we should consider
Exams and other commitments
My college is about to end around mid-May with exams during the end. After that I have a two-month long vacation ;-).
Plans for holidays
None. GSoC will be my primary concern in the holidays in case I get selected.
Have you communicated with a potential mentor? If so, who?
Yes, I have been communicating with Heiko W. Rupp who is assigned as a mentor for the project; alongwith others at #rhq on Freenode.