I’m a bit late, I know that, but I still need to mention that Soc is pretty much over. Uploading my code to google is what’s remaining. The past weeks have been extremely stressful as the new students here at the university have arrived. I’ve been one of a big bunch of people helping out with various things around this and that’s why I’ve been off a lot lately. Well, well…

Back to SoC. It’s over and even though I’ve had a blast working with my project and learned a lot, it feels pretty good to have some free time again. I’ve spent a lot more time on the project than I thought I would in the beginning and it feels good to have some time over to work with something else. Working with beagle is fun and it’s an interesting project and I will of course continue working on it and maintain my code in the future. But I feel that I want to work on something else for a while now. I’m not sure yet what I want to work on, but I want to learn more about socket programming so I’ll try to embed that somehow.

I would also like to say thanks to a lot of people for helping out during my SoC experience. We of course have the beagle mentor bunch: Joe Shaw and my personal mentor Debajyoti Bera. David Bienvenu helped me out a lot with Thunderbird specific questions and deserves to be mentioned. I also want to put a big thank you out to all testers for helping me out and testing my work. You help me find the bugs I can’t find myself. Last but not least: Google for arranging Summer of Code! It’s a great initiative and students, like myself, appreciate it a lot. Hopefully I’ll be able to participate again next year.

My schedule is stacked at the moment but I’m going to try to be more active within the next week and continue bug squashing. There’s a few things I want to get rid of before the 0.3 release. I’m also discussing portability questions with a tracker developer as he would like us to share the extension between tracker and beagle (and maybe other indexing tools as well) to add Thunderbird support to tracker. We’ll have to see how that goes. Anyway, that’s everything for now. Thanks again to everybody that made my SoC experience possible and you’ll probably see more of me in the future ;-)