{"id":82,"date":"2017-06-20T08:18:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T08:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/?p=82"},"modified":"2017-06-20T08:18:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T08:18:27","slug":"the-first-weeks-of-gsoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/index.php\/2017\/06\/20\/the-first-weeks-of-gsoc\/","title":{"rendered":"The first weeks of GSoC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So some time has passed since the coding period started and I want to give you a quick update on how things are going so far.<\/p>\n<p>I started working on the improved setup experience of the Nextcloud client, by adding <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nextcloud\/gsoc_client\/pull\/9\">a list of providers<\/a> that offer hosted Nextcloud installations for their customers. As a second step support for a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/pellaeon\/registration\/issues\/41#issuecomment-303719610\">registration API<\/a> will be integrated so that users can create an account right from within the setup wizard. A proof of concept implementation for that API is almost ready for the <a href=\"http:\/\/Nextcloud registration app\">Nextcloud registration app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-82 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-06-13-151258_750x507_scrot.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-06-13-151258_750x507_scrot-300x203.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-06-13-151258_750x507_scrot-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-06-13-151258_750x507_scrot.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-83'>\n\t\t\t\tFirst screen of the setup wizard\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-06-13-151325_750x507_scrot.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-06-13-151325_750x507_scrot-300x203.png\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-06-13-151325_750x507_scrot-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017-06-13-151325_750x507_scrot.png 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-84'>\n\t\t\t\tList of providers\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>I also started migrating Carlos proposal of a cloud providers API to a gtk-<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/juliushaertl\/libcloudproviders\">independent library<\/a> that provides basic DBus interfaces for cloud providers and software that wants to access the functions provided by those, like Nautilus.<\/p>\n<p>Although it required quite some time to wrap my head around gdbus and especially the generated code of gdbus-codegen, its getting clearer and I took some notes in order to write a HowDoI entry for the GNOME wiki to help others getting started with it in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next 2 weeks I&#8217;ll be continuing migrating the cloud providers library to use gdbus-codegen as well as adding support for the cloud providers API to the\u00a0GtkPlacesSidebar.<\/p>\n<p>So far for now, I&#8217;ll keep you updated on the progress, of course. Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So some time has passed since the coding period started and I want to give you a quick update on how things are going so far. I started working on the improved setup experience of the Nextcloud client, by adding a list of providers that offer hosted Nextcloud installations for their customers. As a second &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/index.php\/2017\/06\/20\/the-first-weeks-of-gsoc\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The first weeks of GSoC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gnome","category-gsoc-2017","category-nextcloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.juliushaertl.de\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}