Tag Archives: GSoC

Week 5 – Modernization of Portage Hey everyone, this week was a fun and satisfying one. Let’s get into it. Context I wanted to work on the dependency resolution system of portage. It is a scary codebase and so  Sam … Continue reading →

Week 4 – Modernization of Portage Another week of GSOC. Days run really fast. This again was a productive week. The first half was  towards understanding the unit tests for portage and the second half was towards solving a bug. … Continue reading →

Week 3 – Modernization of Portage It is the third week of the coding period. It is mostly an uneventful week. Most part was spent on  trying to understand the dependency resolution algorithm. In the second part of the week … Continue reading →

Week 2 – Modernization of Portage It is the second week of coding period and it has been a productive one. It started according to the  plans and diverged in the second half for the good. The first half was … Continue reading →

Week 1 – Modernization of Portage Coding period starts So, it’s the first week of the official coding period and I wanted to write some code and get it  merged into the master branch (I understand it’s a bit over … Continue reading →

Bonding Period 2 – Modernization of Portage Context In order to get familiar with the portage codebase, we decided that I’d fix a few bugs. This blog post talks about the second half of the community bonding period (weeks 3 … Continue reading →

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 →