[Kget] Google Summer of Code ideas, Metalink

[Anthony Bryan]

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.iso.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

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