Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GSoC 2016 - Improve and Integrate PyBOMBS & CGRAN

[Ravi Sharan]

Hi Nathan,

I agree that the ideas listed out in my previous mail doesn't take all of the summer to implement. I which case, I would like to add another point to my proposal.

PyBOMBS support to Embedded WG -

The idea is fairly simple. The current Embedded WG provides a OpenEmbedded(OE) based SDK to develop and build OOT modules. I intend to add a layer on top of PyBOMBS to work with OE tools (bitbake etc.,), for setting up the environment for SDK and cross-compiling the OOT Modules. The module author will have one less thing to worry about while developing apps for supported embedded platforms. I need to do a bit of homework on this front before I write the proper proposal and any help from the embedded WG (Philip Balister) is appreciated in this direction.

My plan (tentative) as of now is to roughly dedicate 5 weeks to implement the app store in the beginning, 3 weeks for adding PyBOMBS support to the embedded working group and 3 weeks for the CGRAN-PyBOMBS integration (1 week) & CGRAN only work (2 weeks). Last two weeks will be dedicated for sanity checks and bug fixes.

Cheers,
Ravi Sharan  

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 4:14 AM, West, Nathan <address@hidden> wrote:

Hi Ravi,

I like this. My only qualm is that I'd personally like this project to include some more pybombs work to round out the still missing features. I'm not really a Qt person, so I don't know how much effort doing the app store is and if that leaves much room, but I know that the CGRAN stuff won't take you all summer if you work full time ;-)

nw

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 5:40 AM, Ravi Sharan <address@hidden> wrote:

Hello,

I am Ravi Sharan, currently pursuing MTech from IIT Hyderabad. I am looking forward to participate in GSoC 2016 by improving and integrating CGRAN and the newer PyBOMBS. I have earlier worked on redesigning the current version of CGRAN with the help of Nathan West. Here's a brief description of things I would like to contribute to the GNU Radio project:

- Qt based GUI app store - 

Develop a simple, usable Qt based GUI app store to install GNU Radio and OOT modules. This sub-idea covers fixing the existing bugs in new PyBOMBS as well.

- Integrate PyBOMBS & CGRAN - Enable installing OOT modules from CGRAN site

This is an idea which Martin Braun put forward during the initial discussions while developing the CGRAN 2.0. The idea is similar to Ubuntu's AptURL, where you can install the packages from a web browser. Clicking the 'apt' (#pun) URL, the browser redirects to the package manager to install the package.

- Enhance CGRAN  - (from current level to level awesome?) 

I intend to implement this sub-idea in two-fold - 

* Add features like clickable tags and grouping the OOT Modules (to name a few) etc., according to their functionality for better usability of the site. [Code Contributions]

* Since the relaunch of CGRAN in April 2015, very few OOT Modules have surfaced on the site. I would like to add more documentation to the individual modules (like what works and what doesn't, compatibility with the current GNU Radio API, etc.,), thus populating CGRAN with modules listed out on the site. This idea is more of documentation, but is a little time consuming.

I will document the above mentioned ideas in the form of proposal based on the feedback I receive and would like to work with Martin Braun and Nathan West during the GSoC period. Apart from the ideas listed above, I am open for suggestions on what could make a good proposal and better summer of coding.

Thanks,

Ravi Sharan B A G

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