Summer Coding 2010 student application - Yuyeping

About Me

1. My name is Yuyeping
2. My email address is yuyeping@gmail.com
3. My wiki username is yuyeping
4. My IRC nickname is yuyeping
5. My wiki page is https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=User:yuyeping
6. My primary language is Chinese, English
7. Location, and what hours tend to work: Chongqing, China. 8:00 to 23:00 GMT+8
8. I would be developing Dorrie (URL: https://fedorahosted.org/dorrie/). I am going to develop some features for Dorrie. For example:
   • User management - integration with FAS.
   • Tabbed workflow with AJAX.
   • Search Packages.
   • Add default users to Kickstart. Custom root password.
   • Hostname
   • Default Wallpaper, home directory content,

About my project

1. My project name is Dorrie.
2. My project come from an idea on the Summer Coding 2010 ideas page (URL: Summer_Coding_2010_ideas_-_Dorrie).
3. Dorrie is a Web interface to build customized Fedora Remixes. It is a Free Software licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 or later and written using Django/Python. It's support remote customise fedora custom Kickstart file, build custom LiveCD ISO image and download. now has basic function and framework. My job is add and enhance features including:
   • User management - integration with FAS. （useing python-fedora Fedora Account System Services )
   • Tabbed workflow with AJAX. (useing jQuery UI Library. )
   • Search Packages.
   • Add default users to Kickstart. Custom root password.
   • Hostname
   • Default Wallpaper, home directory content,
4. timeline for project
   • week 1: Communicate with mentor for detailed info, study project and install development environment.
   • week 2: Try finish first function: User management - integration with FAS.
   • week 3~5: Must finish the other request function: AJAX, search, user, hostname, default user management and so on. Add additional feature in the project's Features Planned according to my ability.
   • week 6~7: Testing and fix bug.
   • week 8: write documents.
5. Self-Convincing:
   • I'm a student in the graduate program of a Electronics and Communication Engineering, interested in open source, my undergraduate degree is computer science and technology which has a lot of software courses including Linux.
   • I am deep in embedded software, I have work experience before graduate school, use embedded Linux base software stack build a rich web-base management system for blade server management solution, this is a successful project which have used in business product.
   • Of course, I have python programming experience, I use python to do math.