Google Summer of Code 2012 - Introduction

Google Summer of Code 2012 - Introduction

[Rafael Fonseca]

Hi, Bluez community,

It is a great honor for me to join this year's Google Summer of Code,
specially in the Bluez project.

I am Rafael Fonseca (rfonseca on IRC), a Computer Scientist graduated
from State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. I'm currently in
the last year of the master degree -- started in 2011 -- in Theory of
Computing on the same university.

My job as a GSoC student is to implement the controller role specified
in the AVRCP 1.3 specification that adds music metadata information
like Artist Name and Track title.

If someone needs to contact me, I am always around #bluez and
#bluez-gsoc and my current timezone is GMT-3.

I am really looking forward to start coding and contributing to the
community as soon as possible!


Best regards
-- 
Rafael Fonseca

Re: Google Summer of Code 2012 - Introduction

[Luiz Augusto von Dentz]

Hi Rafael,

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Rafael Fonseca
<fonsecasantos.rafael@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Bluez community,
>
> It is a great honor for me to join this year's Google Summer of Code,
> specially in the Bluez project.
>
> I am Rafael Fonseca (rfonseca on IRC), a Computer Scientist graduated
> from State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil. I'm currently in
> the last year of the master degree -- started in 2011 -- in Theory of
> Computing on the same university.
>
> My job as a GSoC student is to implement the controller role specified
> in the AVRCP 1.3 specification that adds music metadata information
> like Artist Name and Track title.
>
> If someone needs to contact me, I am always around #bluez and
> #bluez-gsoc and my current timezone is GMT-3.
>
> I am really looking forward to start coding and contributing to the
> community as soon as possible!

Welcome, Im gonna be your mentor you can find me at #bluez or
#bluez-gsoc my nickname is Vudentz. Please take your time to get
acquainted with BlueZ source tree and git, configure your name and
email properly on ~/.gitconfig, also fell free to setup a clone in
http://gitorious.org/bluez or any other similar site where you can
publish changes that are not ready for upstream.

I also would like that you keep this thread updated, could be weekly
or bi-weekly you choose, with the progress of the project.

-- 
Luiz Augusto von Dentz

Re: Google Summer of Code 2012 - Introduction

[Rafael Fonseca]

Hi, Luiz,

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 06:43, Luiz Augusto von Dentz
<luiz.dentz@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
>
> Welcome, Im gonna be your mentor you can find me at #bluez or
> #bluez-gsoc my nickname is Vudentz. Please take your time to get
> acquainted with BlueZ source tree and git, configure your name and
> email properly on ~/.gitconfig, also fell free to setup a clone in
> http://gitorious.org/bluez or any other similar site where you can
> publish changes that are not ready for upstream.

I've just set up a repository in gitorious:
https://gitorious.org/~r4f4rfs/bluez/rfonseca-gsoc.


> I also would like that you keep this thread updated, could be weekly
> or bi-weekly you choose, with the progress of the project.

Ok. I prefer to do a bi-weekly report.


Best regards
-- 
Rafael Fonseca

Re: Google Summer of Code 2012 - Introduction

[Rafael Fonseca]

Hi,

it's time for reporting my progress in these first two weeks.

I've actually done less than I expected since my second bluetooth
dongle has not arrived yet, making it difficult for me to test and
better understand the AVRCP profile implementation. Meanwhile, I'm
studying the source code and learning how to use some debugging tools,
like dbus-monitor, hcidump and d-feet.

As suggested by Luiz, I will implement the MediaPlayer interface for
devices supporting AVRCP > 1.3 in the media.c file. The first step is
to change our record to 1.3 and check remote's device record.

Any suggestions or comments are welcome!


Best Regards
-- 
Rafael Fonseca