Yearly Archives: 2023

Bonding period 1 – Modernization of Portage

Bonding period 1 – Modernization of Portage Hello everyone, I am Berin Aniesh, one of the four contributors for Gentoo through GSOC 2023. You can read more about us here. In this post, I want to talk about the project … Continue reading

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Week 3 report on porting Gentoo packages to modern C

Hello all, I’m here with my week 3 report for Modern C porting of Gentoo’s packages. For this week I diverted from my initial idea a bit and focused on the “C++17 does not allow register storage class specific” type … Continue reading

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Week 3 Report, Automated Gentoo System Updater

This article is a summary of all the changes made on Automated Gentoo System Updater project during week 3 of GSoC’23. Project is hosted on Github. Progress on Week 3 Project finally received some Github stars! It also has received … Continue reading

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Weekly report 2, LLVM libc

Hi! This week I’ve continued my work on getting Python to run. It has mostly involved defining a lot of missing functions and types for Python. These are mostly taken from musl libc, but some things are also just implemented … Continue reading

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Week 2 report on porting Gentoo packages to modern C

This is my week 2 report for my SoC 2023 project “Modern C porting of Gentoo packages” at Gentoo Linux. Current: – I’ve stuck to my proposal and mainly worked on the “Wincompatible-function-pointer-types” bugs. Honestly, nothing much interesting did happen. … Continue reading

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Weekly report 1, LLVM libc

Hey! I had to start GSoC on sunday last week due to school, and I didn’t think that I’d write a weekly report for the first week but I decided to do it anyways. My plan for week 1 was: … Continue reading

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Week 1 report or porting Gentoo packages to modern C

Hello all, This is my week 1 report for my project “Modern C porting of Gentoo packages” as a Google summer of code student at Gentoo Linux foundation. Some of you might recognize me from last year, yep this is … Continue reading

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Gentoo Google Summer of Code (GSoC) for 2023

Gentoo is excited to announce that the Gentoo Google Summer of Code has accepted a group of talented contributors to participate in this year’s program. We extend our congratulations and welcome them aboard! Google Summer of Code is a global … Continue reading

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