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Not much to say about this first week of gsoc (Exams period hasn’t finished yet), so here it comes:

- had an IRC meeting with mentor vuntz of openSUSE and mvo of Ubuntu (the initial software-center author), got some things cleared up and planned the development

- according to my timeline, I now have the trunk version of software-center running in Debian wheezy; there is still work to do, but is an encouraging start;

next:

- work on a dummy install backend and a dummy package info provider; probably create an elegant way of switching backends;

other stuff:

- got interviewed for the openSUSE news

This is it. See you next week.

Hi everyone,

Just a quick announce that I will be working this summer as a GSoC student, for the openSUSE Project. My mentor will be Vincent Untz, the so called “father of GNOME 3″

What I’m aiming to do is modify Ubuntu Software Center to use PackageKit (an universal package management toolkit) as a installation backend, and also integrate it with the AppStream initiative (a cross-distro project for making software installation easier).

My full proposal can be read here (fixed). Feedback and suggestions are, as always, appreciated.

I would like to thank ROSEdu (which I am a member of) for the support