GSOC

Why PyCups3 is So Damn Intelligent In my last blog , I shared just how smart PyCups3 is. This time, let’s go one layer deeper and see why it’s so intelligent. But first, let’s warm up with a bit of Python magic. ✨ What the Heck is a Dunder Method? Straight from the Python 3.x docs: Dunder methods (a.k.a. magic methods) are special methods you can define in your classes to give them superpowers. These methods let you make your class objects behave like built-in Python types. They’re called dunder because they start and end with a double underscore — like __init__. ...

Is that really so? PyCups3 is intelligent? Well, short answer is YES. It is intelligent. Damn, sweetheart, you made an AI for PyCups? Not everything that’s intelligent is an AI. An imaginary conversation, between me and my girlfriend. Now, what’s the twist here is, PyCups3 is actually very very intelligent. So, from my last blog post, I detailed how, PyCups2 got lost due to the lack of upgrades and implmentation of new APIs. ...

Representative and generated So long of GSoC and No blog yet? Why Soumya? Yeah, yeah, I know. It’s been a while, and no blog posts yet. But hey, between wrestling with CFFI + C + Python and libcups with its 150+ APIs, blogging kind of took the back seat. But enough excuses - let’s dig into what’s been cooking. A little history (with C in it) Back in the day (almost 15 years ago!), Tim Waugh wrote the first version of pycups as a C extension module for Python. That worked well, but like all old code, it aged… let’s just say, not like fine wine. After Tim, Zdenek took over as maintainer, but with multiple projects of OpenPrinting and other projects in the mix, there wasn’t much room to modernize PyCups2 for him. ...

The End is here! The long journey of GSoC (which got streched into 16 weeks) is nearing to an end. And in this blog, I will share a few of the things I have done, and some of the things I have left to do. Let’s start with the main works. Snap KCM! It’s here! I have finally succeeded to create a KCM for snaps. This is written using C++, Qt (Qml), Kirigami, Snapd-Glib Api. The flow is something like this ...

Yes, that’s right. The title just goes perfectly, with these long weeks! From Week 3 to Week 7! So, first a small back story on the title. On 25th June, my semester exam ended. I was returning to my hometown, and on my way, I got into a bike accident. My right hand got bruised onto the road. Luckily, it didn’t break. But, the sheer pain was enough to make me cry. It was feeling, as if, someone is constantly burning my hand. I also got injuries in my leg and chest. Went to the doctor, a day after, because I wasn’t able to get up at all! And a complete bed rest for 2 weeks! And guess what, everything good after that? No!!!! My mentor, Scarlett mam, faced a road accident. And this time, she got her arm broken. She had her surgery yesterday. To every readers of this blog, please pray for her speedy recovery. ...

This is the first blog post of my GSOC journey. I will be sharing my works and experiences here. Stay tuned for more updates. In this blog, I’ll be sharing my experiences of the first two weeks of GSOC, what are the works I did, what are challenges I faced and how did I overcome them ( Did I really overcome them :P ). On my first week I tried to understand the codebase of discover first, via doing small changes. So, the first thing I added was a new way of verification of snap publishers which is officially supported by snapcraft. Snapcraft has two tiers of verification: ...