[Kget] Google Summer of Code ideas, Metalink

[Anthony Bryan]

Urs:

> On Thursday 26 March 2009 22:14:09 Anthony Bryan wrote:
>> I've added an idea from last year. you guys should too! I'd be happy
>> to help out in any way that I can this year too, if you have ideas let
>> me know.
>>
>> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Summer_of_Code/2009/Ideas#KGet
>>
>> Lukas mentioned proofreading English documentation. I'd love to do that.
>>
>> openSUSE serves up metalinks with checksums and signatures now, check these
>> out.
>>
>> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/iso/
>>
>> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/iso/openSUSE-11.1-DVD-i586.i
>>so.metalink
>>
>> if the above idea doesn't get picked up for gsoc, I'd still love to
>> see it in KGet!
>>
>> here are the relevant metalink related bugs...
>>
>> * Bug 61397 ? Built-in signature verification support
>> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61397
>>
>> * Bug 158816 ? Use chunk checksums in Metalinks to r...
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158816
>>
>> * Bug 158819 ? Integrate KGet with Nepomuk (acquire ...
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158819
>
> Hi Anthony
>
> Thanks for adding this task. We talked already about adding KGet task, but
> forgot about the last year one. These ideas are still resonable.
>
> Also I will be able to mentor a project this year since I'm not a student this
> year.
>
> If you have any further meta link task for KGet, please add them. Probably you
> can add a "single" project idea just with metalink ideas.

cool, I've changed it to say you as the mentor & just got a mail from
a student that I'll send to you.

no other metalink ideas offhand, but if I student (or anyone else)
works on this I'd love to work w/ them & we might come up w/ other
refinements.

Lukas:
>> Lukas mentioned proofreading English documentation. I'd love to do that.
> Yeah, but we still need to write it... Urs, maybe we should do that before
> 4.3. ;) (Should also be a good training for school at least for me ;))

good! let's work on it before 4.3...


>> openSUSE serves up metalinks with checksums and signatures now, check these
>> out.
>>
>> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/iso/
>>
>> http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/iso/openSUSE-11.1-DVD-i586.i
>>so.metalink
>>
>> if the above idea doesn't get picked up for gsoc, I'd still love to
>> see it in KGet!
>>
>> here are the relevant metalink related bugs...
>>
>> * Bug 61397 ? Built-in signature verification support
>> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61397
>>
>> * Bug 158816 ? Use chunk checksums in Metalinks to r...
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158816
>>
>> * Bug 158819 ? Integrate KGet with Nepomuk (acquire ...
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158819
> Yep, it's still on my TODO if it doesn't get picked... I'm just a bit spare on
> time currently, too many projects and too much to do in real-life...
>
> But maybe I can work on the Nepomuk-Task during the Nepomuk-Developer-Sprint,
> which I will most probably attend. =)
>
> Verification stuff shouldn't be hard as well...
>
> Bug 158816 needs some work though, I think we should get the DataSourceFactory
> done for it, and a working backend for it... I surely need Manolo for that. :(
> (he seems very busy these days :/)

good to know...

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