Hello, everyone. My name is Illya and I'm interested in taking part in GSoC 2008 for implementing scriptable configuration for wine.
So I'd liked to discuss it with community.
First of all - why I'm interested in that project?
Currently I'm working as a kind of "software consultant" in my city. My primary The primary aim of work - helping migrating from MS Windows platform to Linux & Open Source. Unfortunately, a great number of different applications were written and still heavily used in companies of my city for Windows. And this is a place where Wine makes great help. Need of scriptable configuration is quite critical for helping me quickly perform standard configuration for some apps, and even more - make "install packages" which will help users unfamiliar with Wine quickly run their software.
Now - Why me? Quite hard question. First of all, I have a personal interest (see above :) ). Second - now I have strong will and real possibility (as I estimate) to implement that project. I've looked for projects of GSoC'07 year ago - and realized that I wasn't ready for them.
Although I'm absolutely new to wine-devel, I've been using Wine (and no windows at my computer at all) for about a year. I have experience working on some big projects (it is mangos WoW emulator (http://mangosproject.org/) and especially ScriptDev2 (scripting engine for mangos) (http://scriptdev2.com) ). Currently I have strong skills in reading and understanding code written by others. I have quite strong C/C++ (mostly C++) skills. I've participated in ACM contests and received 1 place in Ukraine and we (My team) were in top-ten in Eastern Europe Region contests.
How I see my future work? First of all, in short term after this message (possibly on weekend) if I receive a positive (or at least non-negative response) from community I plan to create a specification of CLI syntax, which I expect to be implemented by me, divided in stages to have a step-by-step working guide. After obtaining community suggestions that'll become a future work plan for summer. Then I'll spend some time in wine code reading (I've already have experience in some "hacking" for my brother's favorite games, but I need some time for deeper understanding). And after that - the work will start. I expect to make a weekly "reports" how the work going on, and create a series of patches for each step defined above.
Thanks for reading probably a bit long letter, and sorry for possibly bad English - it is far away from my mother tongue.
Best regards, Illya Klimov