Call for hacking help, oppurtunity to get involved.

[Sivan Green]

Hi all,

  Due to unexpected personal reasons I have been unable to achieve real 
progress on the two edgy goals I planned to deliver for edgy. The 
specifications are:

  1) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemCleanUpTool
  2) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HomeUserBackup

Realizing the short time left for me to try and complete the two, I'd 
need someone to take on (1) , and of course I wouldn't object any help 
on (2).

So, if you have been using Ubuntu so far, and felt you want to dive into 
some interesting, UI and system development, now is the time!

For (1) , we need to firstly concentrate on implementing the high 
priority use case - cleaning up left over un used kernels. The rest of 
the mentioned features can be implemented for edgy+1.

For those who are interested, feel free to email me or ping me on IRC 
for any guidance or help I might be able to provide. If you're not 
familiar on packaging, I can do the packaging for you - make sure you 
use python dist utils manage your source distribution.

As of (2), I'm already working to try and make it to edgy with the set 
of goals defined on the Paris revised specification. Any help would be 
welcome, specifically, providing some code to detect the amount of free 
space on a multisession CD/RW media (there is some funky C code that 
does that in nautilus-cd-burner, we need to either implement that in 
Python or create bindings), help in testing and exception handling 
hacking, creating proper desktop notifications, and hacking in the mime 
support to make the backup process smoother and cleaner.

For any clarifications  for any of the specs, feel free to contact me.

Happy hacking!

Sivan