Nuitka: GSOC 2019: Use this issue for other GSoC questions

[kayhayen]

First of all: Welcome to Nuitka!

So this issue is intended for all questions of general nature. Introduce yourself here, ask about the process, or about available tools.

This is absolutely open to all kinds of questions related to the GSoC, esp. if you are interested in creating your own idea too. Do not hesitate to ask, as long as you can live with us not answering immediately around the clock. :)

[bksahu]

Hello, @kayhayen :smile: I am Batakrishna Sahu from India. I am an undergrad in computer science. And it's really nice to work with you.

What are your requirements to qualify as a GSoC student? Where can one post the proposed draft for feedbacks?

[kayhayen]

@bksahu I do not have a fixed set of requirements, so only what Google wants of you. I would like make sure of course that you qualify for that, but since this is the first time I am doing this, I don't think I have anything beyond that. What I would like to do is to have some sort of video chat before we apply, which is what I meant to offer during the course of the GSoC.

I must say, I was very positively impressed with you just going ahead and trying out. In my mind, that makes you very interesting. During a talk, I expect we can both commit and go ahead together.

[kayhayen]

So this week I am relatively busy with 2 of my sons, the older ones having their birthdays, and me preparing that. But my idea is for students that want to apply and that I mentor, we will have a teleconference which mainly aims at getting to know each other, and then maybe weekly ones preparing the application and talking code and designs, or showing you stuff.

My main focus will be to prepare things e.g. with developer manual updates, and then specific help for you.

So @bksahu if you want, please propose a date and time range with a time zone name :) or so for next week. I am mostly flexible and assume we live in vastly different time zones, but I am active day and night, so I won't mind. :-)

[bksahu]

@kayhayen I will email you directly my contact and other details.

[kayhayen]

@bksahu yes of course, please do that. I was writing this here, only for the part where I say how I think the application part goes for Nuitka. Not to actually schedule our meeting.

[Nimishkhurana]

Hello @kayhayen . I am Nimish Khurana. I am an undergrad pursuing B.E. in Computer Science. I have strong experience working with Python and basic C++. I would like to do GSoC 2019 under Nuitka. I have also left a comment on Benchmarks issue. Please help me get started to contribute.

[ritwik12]

Hey @Nimishkhurana , you have tagged wrong person. @bksahu is just another contributor like you. @kayhayen is the one to be mentioned.

[girijamanoj]

Hello @kayhayen 😃, This is Girija Manoj from India I am an undergrad in Computer Science, an Opensource enthusiast, and a Competitive Problem Solver. My expertise is Python and very comfortable with C++ too. I would like to contribute to Nuitka to the best of my ability. I already started exploring the wonderful codebase of Nuitka from the past few days.
I have a suggestion for the betterment and faster development of our Nuitka, I feel it will be better if we have a platform(like Gitter or IRC) through which we can communicate more effectively than here So that the contributions will pace up. It will be better if we could start a new thread or chat room on either of the mentioned platforms(It was just my suggestion). Thank you. 😄

[Nimishkhurana]

Hey @Nimishkhurana , you have tagged wrong person. @bksahu is just another contributor like you. @kayhayen is the one to be mentioned.

Oh it was my bad.I have edited my comment. Thanks

[kayhayen]

Hello there,

I realize I am falling a bit behind in reactions, sorry about that. As I wrote in this thread, this week is very tense for me due to the birthdays of two of my sons. Today I will also be busy due to it. I will be able to respond to the (many) GSoC requests over the course of the next week. This week I have fallen behind, wanting to get the contributions that are already in 0.6.2 out, which it now is, but that was roughly my spare time budget available for Nuitka.

Next week I will go over all students and answer questions, and make a list, where to direct you to.

If you have C knowledge, there will be another idea added, that should lead you to being able to add and optimize C helper functions. That would be great for me. It seems amazingly many have the skills to do that.

Ultimately I think I will have a video chat with each of you where I think there is a matching idea, and where we can have a look together.

I hope that is fair for you. Next week and beyond you own me until I catched up. :-)

[ajitesh-30]

Hello @kayhayen I am a Computer Science Undergraduate from India . I have got knowledge of both Python and C/C++ . I have read almost every document about Nutika. I would love contributing to Nutika .

[omarahmed1111]

hello @kayhayen , i am a computer engineering undergrad from Egypt , i would like to contribute to nuitka , i cant find a way in the documentation to build it from source on ubuntu linux so is there a way to build it on linux from source ?

[bksahu]

Hello. @omarahmed1111 You can build docs on your local machine. You have to first install doxygen and then execute doxygen doc/Doxyfile

This will make a html folder inside which you can find index.htm which you can browse for the docs.

[kayhayen]

@omarahmed1111 I think there is a chapter in User Manual now, http://nuitka.net/doc/user-manual.html#installation

But it's shockingly simple, just a standard setup.py usage.

[kayhayen]

So the way this is going to work, is that I will go over the contacts from students that I had and make sure to reply with a request to fill out mini survey, that basically is just about contact details and Python and C knowledge. Send this to my private email only: kay.[email protected]

Full Name:
Country:
Student at Org URL:
Email:
Github name:
Twitter handle (optional):
Skype handle (Hangouts would be even better):
Ideas Interested in (we can checkout together):
Python Knowledge (Python2, Python3):
C Knowledge (Basic, Intermediate, Expert, not required for all ideas!):
Anything else you want to point out:

I will search for comments made by you so far on my own, and emails received, and deal with them.

I will store this information and share it with the other GSoC mentors in a private Google Doc for the duration of the application process.

[kayhayen]

As for Gitter chat, IRC and other things @girijamanoj , so far I am happy with Github. The advantage is that this is searchable, archived, and one single point of interaction. For now I would like to go with this.

[kayhayen]

My goal is to have a video chat with every serious applicant, but I am not entirely sure how long it will be for me to make that happen. Also please understand that we cannot take everybody. You definitely wouldn't want us to have to split our time between too many people, then we can't assist and teach you the way this is supposed to be.

My heart is already bleeding in the prospect that I will have to turn down totally viable offers. Please know that the decision is naturally going to be hard. Don't become angry with me.

[riya-17]

Hey @kayhayen, I am Riya, I would like to Contribute to Nuitika for GSOC 2019. Please help me to start with the issues and getting familiar with the code.

[LilJohny]

@kayhayen Can I use first 50 libs from this list https://pythonwheels.com/ for #229 ?

[kayhayen]

@LilJohny That would be perfectly fine too. I think there anyway has to be a big overlap between top 50 PyPI packages and top 50 wheels used, right?

[sannanansari]

@kayhayen Yes their is a big overlap Top 50 pypi packages. Now I think our tasks is find next top 50 packages.

[tab1tha]

please help.I am trying to run this nuitka on a program called HelloWorld.py on UBuntu 16.04LTS. I have gcc installed not MINGW.I tried modifying the command in the user manual containing MINGW so that gcc is used instead.It gives me this result https://pastebin.com/k8Js29wD .please how do I write the command correctly to run nuitka on a .py program in ubuntu 16.04LTS?

[bksahu]

@tab1tha You don't need to install MINGW for Ubuntu 16. Try python3 -m nuitka --standalone HelloWorld.py without the gcc flag.

[tab1tha]

python3 -m nuitka --standalone HelloWorld.py runs for 1 minute and does not produce any result

[bksahu]

python3 -m nuitka --standalone HelloWorld.py runs for 1 minute and does not produce any result

@tab1tha It will create two directories: HelloWorld.bin/ and HelloWorld.dist/. You can see the output by executing the executable in the HelloWorld.dist/ directory. Try ./HelloWorld.dist/HelloWorld.

[Nimishkhurana]

@tab1tha To also run the script in same command use --run option.

[tab1tha]

python3 -m nuitka --standalone HelloWorld.py runs for 1 minute and does not produce any result

@tab1tha It will create two directories: HelloWorld.bin/ and HelloWorld.dist/. You can see the output by executing the executable in the HelloWorld.dist/ directory. Try ./HelloWorld.dist/HelloWorld.

it worked.Thanks

[tommyli3318]

@kayhayen Hello! CS major here from the United States. I just discovered Nuitka and gsoc today and this project seems very interesting to me. However, it looks like I'm late to the party. Have you guys already filled up all the positions? Is it too late to go through the application process now?
Thank you!

[tab1tha]

hello @tommyli3318 ,the positions have not been assigned yet.Feel free to choose a GSOC project you want to work on and prepare a proposal for it (deadline for submission to the GSOC website is the 9th of April 2019).Also,go through the User Manual (http://nuitka.net/doc/user-manual.html) and the Developer manual (http://nuitka.net/doc/developer-manual.html) of Nuitka ;They'll help get you 'up to speed'. If you are in doubt ,feel free to drop a question here.

[kayhayen]

@tommyli3318 it's not too late until 9th of April, but we expect a substantial PR in the field you want to apply for, but you can always start now and aim for 2020 unless it's your last year of studies. And it may be worth to get a feel of things either way.

One relatively easy issue, if you have C knowledge can be #283 where we have high interest and not as much progress so far.

Also, if you are a systems expert, you can do #230 and start maybe with issues in the field We do not have much progress their either way, and @JorjMcKie is a really experienced mentor you would have there.

[Nimishkhurana]

@kayhayen can we have video call now to discuss queries regarding benchmarks project.

[sannanansari]

Hey @kayhayen, I hope your day is going good. I want to discuss more about GSOC 2019: Make sure top 50 PyPI packages are supported #229.
As I understand their is 3 stages in project. 1.Find issues and reporting to bug tracker 2. Developing tools to minimized the issues(Fixing issues) 3. Setting up automated tests. As far as Jinja 2 concern I am learning it.
How can I approach this 3 stages?

[kayhayen]

Just a quick reminder, there is less than one week left for the applications. Make sure to make it for the deadline. Submit your applications to me for review if you want and work PRs as these will be required to be accepted.

[tab1tha]

Just a quick reminder, there is less than one week left for the applications. Make sure to make it for the deadline. Submit your applications to me for review if you want and work PRs as these will be required to be accepted.

Thanks for the reminder.I uploaded my proposal moments ago. I look forward to your suggestions.

[Pihu1998]

@kayhayen

Just a quick reminder, there is less than one week left for the applications. Make sure to make it for the deadline. Submit your applications to me for review if you want and work PRs as these will be required to be accepted.

Should I submit it to your private email or anywhere else for review?

[tab1tha]

@kayhayen

Just a quick reminder, there is less than one week left for the applications. Make sure to make it for the deadline. Submit your applications to me for review if you want and work PRs as these will be required to be accepted.

Should I submit it to your private email or anywhere else for review?

@Pihu1998 upload your proposal on the GSOC website by searching for Python Software organisation and clicking ''Upload proposal'': the site will provide instructions on how to proceed. Remember to specify that you are applying for Nuitka.
Cheers

[Pihu1998]

@tab1tha Thank you so much for the response :-). Actually I wanted to know whether it needs to be first reviewed by @kayhayen before submitting it to the GSOC website.

[tab1tha]

@tab1tha Thank you so much for the response :-). Actually I wanted to know whether it needs to be first reviewed by @kayhayen before submitting it to the GSOC website.

When you upload the draft (Google docs link) on the site, and confirm that it can be shared with the organisation, you can then notify him here (by using @mention).

[Pihu1998]

@tab1tha Okay. Thank you so much:-)

[kayhayen]

You can directly submit on the website, it will be a Google docs link there anyway and it's centrally on our radar, plus easier to dispatch for us mentors internally.

[Pihu1998]

@kayhayen I uploaded my proposal. I am looking forward for your suggestions.

[sannanansari]

@kayhayen I also uploaded my proposal and looking forward for your suggestions.

[kayhayen]

Today is the 8th, on 9th your proposal has to achieve "final" status. Whatever is in "draft" status will be rejected. I understand you can still make changes after submitting as "final", so there is no harm in you putting it to "final", right now.

Also thanks a lot for the many good submissions. It's been fun working with you. Now comes a hard time, where by the constraints of reality, we are forced to live with good ideas loosing our to better ideas. I want to thank you for understanding.

[kayhayen]

So, it's closed now. We are reading your submissions. Please do not bother to ask us about acceptance, we are reviewing only towards PSF and Google, and they will assign the slots, and announce the result on May 6th and we are not allowed to say anything before, and definitely won't,

That said, it will definitely help your cause to continue to be active and show yours skills. In some cases, we would like to take on students, but need to see more from you, to be comfortable in recommending it.

[goggle]

I think we can close this, since GSOC 2019 is over.
Will Nuitka be part of GSOC 2020?