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Community bonding

Meeting 1​

(May 7, 2024)

Discussion:​

  • Could not attend due to family emergency.

Community Bonding Week 1

(May 9, 2024 - May 15, 2024)

Meeting 2​

(May 9, 2024)

Discussion:​

  • I gave my introduction in the meeting.
  • Got to know my mentors and colleagues.

Work Done:​

  • Tried to setup the coding environment.
  • Set up a Virtual Machine because fossology does not work on Mac.😔
  • Faced challenges installing some python packages which were not available for aarch64 architecture. Worked around the issue by commenting this out.

Community Bonding Week 2

(May 16, 2024 - May 23, 2024)

Meeting 3​

(May 16, 2024)

Discussion:​

  • Contributors shared their weekly updates.
  • Discussed and decided time for weekly project specific meetings.
  • Mentors talked about the importance of open communication in open source.

Work Done:​

  • Played around with fossology and scanned a few repositories.
  • Tried to understand how scanners work internally.
  • Talked with other contributors about the project.

Community Bonding Week 3

(May 23, 2024 - May 30, 2024)

Meeting 4​

(May 23, 2024)

Discussion:​

  • Had final discussions on projects.
  • Finalized any changes to the project milestones.

Work Done:​

  • Tried building the fossology scanner image locally.
  • Played around a while with the image, trying to understand what it does.
  • Faced an issue of UI freezing in the VM. Solved it by using SSH Remote Tunneling
  • Started to theorize how the line number algorithm would work.

Meeting 5​

(May 30, 2024)

  • Discussed the project updates from the mentors and contributors.
  • Got clear understanding of how to document our progress during the whole program.
  • Had discussions with the mentors about how to approach the algorithm for line numbers.

This summarizes my community bonding period at Fossology