Summer Coding 2010 proposal - Kronikarz

= About project = Summary of idea: Handy graphical tool for archiving settings of desktop applications. This tool will be useful for users who:
 * want to simply backup / restore look-and-feel and settings of desktop applications;
 * frequently migrate from one distribution to another;
 * have more then one device and want to sync settings.

Project shortinfo - Summer Coding 2010 ideas - Kronikarz - shortinfo

The idea is to develop a simple tool to archive settings and possibility to reuse this settings on any distro.


 * Timeline:
 * week 1 — matching of technical tasks, determination of participant's roles
 * week 2 - week 4 — realization of backend with backup / restore functional
 * week 5 - week 7 — realization of frontend of basic GUI-application (draft)
 * week 8 — realization of frontend of service/daemon (draft)
 * week 9 - week 10 — debugging
 * week 11 — final testing, creation of rpm-package.

=Mentors=

About me

 * 1) My name is Alexei Panov
 * 2) My e-mail address is elemc@atisserv.ru
 * 3) My wiki username Elemc
 * 4) I don't use IRC
 * 5) My wiki page is [Elemc]
 * 6) My primary language is Russian and English (not good, as I'm think)

Me and the community

 * 1) If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Fedora community?
 * 2) * Сommunity users' time saving.
 * 3) * "The move" without problems on the new version of Fedora, when user can't or doesn't want to upgrade system.
 * 4) * And as I think, Kronikarz will be one of many programs often used by beginners in Fedora Linux.
 * 5) In addition to the required blogging minimum of twice per week, how do you propose to keep the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?
 * 6) * I will try constant to notify community about a course of work on wiki page.

=Students=

About Me

 * 1)  My name is Andrey Prokhorenkov
 * 2)  My email address is andrej.prokhorenkov@gmail.com
 * 3)  My wiki username is m0nhawk
 * 4)  My IRC nickname is m0nhawk
 * 5)  My wiki page is  https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=User:m0nhawk
 * 6)  My primary language is Russian, Ukrainian, English
 * 7)  Location, and what hours tend to work: Kiev, Ukraine. 14:00 to 24:00 GMT+2

Me and the community

 * 1) If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Fedora community?
 * 2) * Easy-in-use software to transfer configs form one distro to another.
 * 3) * Easy way to raise many PC's with identical configurations.
 * 4) What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?
 * 5) * Continue to work according to plan.
 * 6) * Try to add more feature and solve known bugs.
 * 7) In addition to the required blogging minimum of twice per week, how do you propose to keep the community informed of your progress and any problems or questions you might have over the course of the project?
 * 8) * Try to communicate in some informal ways — IRC, XMPP or some other, to know the withdraw of the community.

Miscellaneous

 * 1) We want to make sure that you are prepared before the project starts
 * 2) * Can you set up an appropriate development environment? Yes.
 * 3) * Have you met your proposed mentor and members of the associated community? Yes.
 * 4) What is your t-shirt size?
 * 5) * Dunno :)

Comments
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My background

 * 1) I am a fourth year undergraduate student of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.
 * 2) I haven't contributed to open source before, and look at this as my first taste to open source development. However, I have done some projects as a part of my academic curriculum.
 * 3) * A minimal processor. [Verilog] (as a group of 2)
 * 4) * A compiler in C using Flex and Bison for a toy language.
 * 5) * Simulation of a file system. [C++] (as a group of 2)
 * 6) * HTTP server, client, proxy server, and DNS server. [C++] (as a group of 2)
 * 7) * Chat server and client (as a group of 2)
 * 8) * The code for the Chat Server and simulation of a file system can be found at http://github.com/NOLFXceptMe, my groupmate's.
 * 9) *I am pretty confident about this project, and I think I can complete it.
 * 1) *I am pretty confident about this project, and I think I can complete it.

Me and the community

 * 1) If your project is successfully completed, what will its impact be on the Fedora community?
 * 2) * Users can backup and restore settings across different systems and distributions easily.
 * 3) * Users can sync settings across different systems.
 * 4) What will you do if you get stuck on your project and your mentor isn't around?
 * 5) * I will try to solve the problem myself, else I'll leave the problem for the time being and work on a different module until my mentor is available. If my mentor is away for an extended period of time, I will ask the Fedora community for suggestions and possible solutions.

Miscellaneous

 * 1) We want to make sure that you are prepared before the project starts
 * 2) * Can you set up an appropriate development environment? - Yes
 * 3) * Have you met your proposed mentor and members of the associated community? - Yes, I have met my mentor.
 * 4) What is your t-shirt size? - M

Comments
Use the Talk:Summer Coding 2010 student proposal application to actually make comment, which then appear here on the main proposal page. You can use this link to make a new comment].

About Me

 * 1)  My name is Dima Kalinin
 * 2)  My email address is kal1sha.ua@gmail.com
 * 3)  My wiki username is kal1sha
 * 4)  My IRC nickname is kal1sha
 * 5)  My wiki page is  Kal1sha
 * 6)  My primary language is Russian, Ukrainian, English
 * 7)  Location, and what hours tend to work: Kiev, Ukraine. 14:00 to 24:00 GMT+2

Miscellaneous

 * 1) We want to make sure that you are prepared before the project starts
 * 2) * Can you set up an appropriate development environment? - Yes
 * 3) * Have you met your proposed mentor and members of the associated community? - Yes, I have met my mentor.
 * 4) What is your t-shirt size? - M