GSoC 2020 - Vinay Lanka - Network discovery support to arduino-cli

[vinay-lanka]

Introduction

Hey!
I'm Vinay Lanka, a 20 year old ECE undergraduate at Vellore Institute of Technology.
I am really excited to hear that Arduino is a mentoring organisation for GSoC 20. I've been using and tinkering with Arduinos since 6th grade. My earliest memory of the Arduino IDE is the splash screen that read,

An open project written, debugged and supported by @mbanzi , @dcuartielles , @tigoe ...,

and that quote had me wanting to contribute to the first platform that I have come across.

I am an electronics enthusiast and a fullstack web developer, with a proficiency in C,C++,Python and more recently Go. I've made and contributed to various projects that involve the use of the Arduino boards. You can checkout that and more in my website here

I have checked out the GitHub organisations and the repositories to get a sense of the task that lays ahead. I have created an active pull request to add a small change to the arduino-cli repository and I'm working to fix more issues.

The project

So after reading the project brief in the ideas file, adding network support would mean adding mDNS client support for service discovery right?
We could then make a seperate command for discovering these network boards.

I would also like to do some research for the same. If anyone can link me to the right resources, I'd be grateful.

Thank You,
Vinay Lanka

[vinay-lanka]

Update

I would really like to contact someone to know more details about this project

[vinay-lanka]

Hey,

I drafted a proposal for review, any guidance on how to proceed?
Should I upload a pdf on the GSoC dashboard, or should I mail it to someone for a review?

Thank You,
Vinay Lanka

[alranel]

Hello @vinay-lanka, and welcome. Let's use this page for communication. You can link your proposal here and ask any questions should you have.

[vinay-lanka]

Hey @alranel , thanks for reaching out!
I've uploaded the draft link on my GSoC dashboard. Should I link it here as well? Or only keep this thread for discussing doubts?
Thanks again! :)

[rsora]

Hi @vinay-lanka , I'm Roberto from the arduino-cli core developer team,
First of all thanks for your interest in contributing to the arduino-cli project, as a proficient Golang contributor, you will provide to our community a great contribution for sure!

We had an internal discussion in the arduino-cli team and decided to propose a new activity on the CLI for the GSOC (see #127) replacing the "network discovery" activity.
We think that implementing the "external programmers" feature will provide great value to our community.

Feel free to check the relevant issue (arduino/arduino-cli#27) and decide freely if you still want to contribute to the arduino-cli project.
If you decide to go on in implementing the "external programmers" feature, please close this issue and open a new one, including "arduino-cli external programmers feature" in the title, we will start to help you in your new issue.

Cheers from the arduino-cli team 👍

[vinay-lanka]

Hey @rsora ,

The new feature to add external programmer support does seem really promising and would be a welcome addition to the cli.

I am interested in contributing to this activity and would open a new issue for the same.