Okay, I gotta start by saying that it been a long time. The last thing I remember was trying to figure out how to rebase my pull requests on Kodi’s repository and praying to pass my first GSoC evaluation. Well, as of now I have passed all the GSoC evaluations, received all my stipend and missed a great trip to Sofia, Bulgaria, yup missed it, but that’s a story for next time....

I got selected as a Google Summer of Code student in XBMC foundation (a.k.a Kodi) for the project [Static code analysis in Kodi’s addon-check tool](Static code analysis in Kodi’s addon-check tool). Result came out on April 23 09:30 PM IST. I know it was 2 months ago but I couldn’t get myself to write about it - you can say I was “busy” ;) What is GSoC ? Google Summer of Code is a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development....

My First Blog post...