This post is the third introduction to the Fedora Summer Coding interns Class of Summer 2019. In this interview, we’ll meet Shaily Sangwan and Zubin Choudhary, who are both working on projects to improve quality assurance processes in the Fedora community.

Shaily Sangwan: CentOS CI User Frontend

Shaily Sangwan (shaily) is working to create a user front-end for CentOS CI. This project involves building a web app to replace the current user on-boarding flow for ci.centos.org. She was selected for Google Summer of Code 2019.

We asked Shaily a few questions as she prepares for her next three months working with Brian Stinson and Siddharth Vipul, her mentors for the summer.

Tell us a bit about yourself!

I’m a graduate student in Political Science at Delhi University, India. Fun fact – I have previously worked with Fedora Project during Outreachy Round 15 in 2017-18.

How did you hear about GSoC?

Since GSoC is usually conducted in parallel with Outreachy, I had heard about it during my last internship, which in turn I had read about on Quora.

What caught your attention about Fedora? How does it align with your personal interests?

I learned a great deal about writing good quality code while working on Fedora Hubs, so Fedora was at the top of my list in choosing an organization to work with during GSoC. This project aligns well with my personal interests since I get to develop an application from scratch that is meant to serve a large number of users on completion.

What are you looking forward to most during this GSoC round?

I want to use this opportunity in learning how to build and deploy web apps using CI/CD and organize deployments using container run-times like Docker and Kubernetes. While my focus was earlier on learning the building blocks for these applications, now after adequate experience in this domain, I want to explore how they are deployed to production in a scalable manner.

Where do you see yourself after you complete this GSoC round?

After completing this project, I want to work in a role that involves taking more responsibility around the end to end development of web apps.

Who is your favorite Marvel superhero / superheroine?

Thanos. 🙂

Anything you want to add?

I wish there was a community meetup for Fedora interns and mentors, maybe at Flock 2019!

Editor’s note: Starting last year, Flock features a Summer Coding Project Showcase. More details will come soon. Hope to see you at Flock, Shaily!

Zubin Choudhary: Fedora Gooey Karma

Zubin Choudhary (imzubin/iamzubin) is working on Fedora Gooey Karma. This is a GUI client for the Fedora Quality Assurance (QA) team for testing and reviewing package updates. He was selected for Google Summer of Code 2019.

We asked Zubin a few questions as he prepares for his next three months working with Sumantro Mukherjee, his mentor for the summer.

Tell us a bit about yourself!

I’m a computer science student from India, there’s not much anyone cannot guess about me after talking to for like 5 minutes.

How did you hear about GSoC?

I was looking for summer internships and stumbled upon GSoC.

What caught your attention about Fedora? How does it align with your personal interests?

Once you switch to Linux, there’s no turning back. Contributing to a huge Linux community like Fedora is something anyone would do to give back to the community.

What are you looking forward to most during this GSoC round?

Making some good contacts, a great product, getting stuck and finding a solution.

Where do you see yourself after you complete this GSoC round?

FLOCK conference! I haven’t planned anything about my future, let’s see where GSoC takes me. 🙂

Who is your favorite Marvel superhero / superheroine?

Our friendly neighborhood spider guy.

Thanks and good luck to Shaily and Zubin as they begin their project work next week!