Daniel Martin Gomez: Hacking GNU for the first time


Hi, my name is Daniel. I'm from Spain, where I'm currently studying baccalaureate in sciences before entering university next fall. I was first introduced to GNU/Linux and free software when I was in primary school, and since my last year there I've been using only GNU/Linux distributions on my computer. I started learning programming (a bit of Python) about five years ago, but I quickly moved to C. I had worked on some of my own projects before I joined the FSF this September.
This fall, as part of my internship, I've been contributing to GNU Wget2, a reimplementation of GNU Wget, working on different tasks, most of them from the issues list of the wget2 repository at GitLab. I started with some issues marked as "Junior" in order to get used to the source code, and after some weeks, I went to more difficult tasks like adding some features from wget1.x, such as the speed reporting support to the progress bar or the --use-askpass option (I simply ported the original source code) which calls an extern application given by the user, for instance ssh-askpass, that requests for a username and password. In this way, sensible data is hidden from the command line and the ps output.
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