Heyo,
So, M.Tech is coming to an end I should probably start searching for a job soon. Still, it seems I will be having a bit of free time from Mid-September. I have got some plans about the areas I should contribute to SMC/Indic Project. As of now, the bucket list is as follows:
- Properly tag versions of fonts in SMC GitLab repo - I had taken over the package fonts-smc from Vasudev, but haven’t done any update on that yet. The main reason was fontforge being old in Debian. Also, I was waiting for some kind of official release of new versions by SMC. Since the new versions are already available in the SMC Fonts page, I assume I can go ahead with my plans. So, as a first step I have to tag the versions of fonts in the corresponding GitLab repo. Need to discuss whether to include TTF file in the repo or not.
- Restructure LibIndic modules - Those who were following my GSoC posts will know that I made some structural changes to the modules I contributed in LibIndic. (Those who don’t can check this mail I sent to the list). I plan to do this for all the modules in the framework, and to co-ordinate with Jerin to get REST APIs up.
- GNOME Localization - GNOME Localization has been dead for almost two years now. Ashik has shown interest in re-initiating it and I plan to do that. I first have to get my committer access back.
- Documentation - Improve documentation about SMC and IndicProject projects. This will be a troublesome and time consuming task but I still like our tools to have proper documentation.
- High Priority Projects - Create a static page about the high priority projects so that people can know where and how to contribute.
- Die Wiki, Die - Initiate porting Wiki to a static site using Git and Jekyll (or any similar tool). Tech people should be able to use git properly.
Knowing me pretty much better than anyone else, I understand there is every chance of this being “Never-being-implemented-plan” (അതായത് ആരംഭശൂരത്വം :D) but still I intend to do this in an easy-first order.