Hi everyone!

This is my report #1 for the unMessage GSoC project.

# Pre-coding period

Since the project was accepted, my mentors and I started to plan what exactly had to be done for each task and I started to learn the things I would have to know in order to work on each of the tasks we selected. While I was learning I picked a part of each task and implemented them, so that my mentors could see if I was in the right direction. I am going to use bullet lists to briefly describe what I did for each task. More details can be found in their tickets.

## Improve setup script #35 [0]

- Improved package metadata and requirements definitions

## Use attrs #34 [1]

- Changed a class to use attrs in its attributes and validation

## Add a logger #30 [2]

- Created a logger using twisted.logger - Sends logs to a file when using any of the UIs - Displays logs using the stdlib's logger when using the GUI

## Add a test suite #33 [3]

- Created the tests module - Added some hypothesis tests for the packet factories - Enabled Travis CI [4] and Codecov [5] integration

## Support file transfer #12 [6]

- Created serializable classes for file elements using attrs - Added tests for the serialization - Described how the file elements would be used [7]

## Make functions/methods asynchronous #21 [8]

- Made functions/methods involved in sending an element asynchronous

# Coding period

Since the coding period started, I began to work on the tasks to be delivered for the first evaluation (#35, #34, #12, #30).

## Improve setup script #35 [0]

- Added installation instructions to use pip in a virtual environment - Pinned requirements to their latest versions - Finished the task - Created an extra task to automate version and hash pinnings #49 [9]

## Use attrs #34 [1]

- Changed most of the existing classes to use attrs

## Add a logger #30 [2]

- Implemented a custom stdlib logger to use the file logger's format

## Support file transfer #12 [6]

- Started working on the file transfer using the new function/methods that send elements (which are now asynchronous)

Most of the code I worked on has been merged to the develop branch [10] and what has not been merged can be found in my fork's [11] branches.

I also created a project on GitHub to keep track of the tasks [12].

# What's next

The next steps for this first set of tasks is:

- Finish changing some of the classes that do not use attrs yet - Continue working on the file transfer to send/receive requests, transfer files and handle some common errors involved in this process - Spread log statements in the code

Thanks, -Felipe

[0]: https://github.com/AnemoneLabs/unmessage/issues/35 [1]: https://github.com/AnemoneLabs/unmessage/issues/34 [2]: https://github.com/AnemoneLabs/unmessage/issues/30 [3]: https://github.com/AnemoneLabs/unmessage/issues/33 [4]: https://travis-ci.org/AnemoneLabs/unmessage [5]: https://codecov.io/gh/AnemoneLabs/unmessage [6]: https://github.com/AnemoneLabs/unmessage/issues/12 [7]: https://github.com/AnemoneLabs/unmessage/issues/12#issuecomment-304128995 [8]: https://github.com/AnemoneLabs/unmessage/issues/21 [9]: https://github.com/AnemoneLabs/unmessage/issues/49 [10]: https://github.com/AnemoneLabs/unmessage [11]: https://github.com/felipedau/unmessage [12]: https://github.com/AnemoneLabs/unmessage/projects/1