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+rss = "GSoC 2020: First Check-In"
+date = Date(2020, 6, 1)
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+@def tags = ["pip", "gsoc"]
+
+# First Check-In
+
+Hi everyone, I am McSinyx, a Vietnamese undergraduate student
+who loves [free software][].  This summer I am working with
+the maintainers and the contributors of `pip` to make
+the package manager {{pip 825 "download in parallel"}}.
+
+## What did I do during the community bonding period?
+
+Aside from bonding with `pip`'s maintainers and contributors as well as
+with my mentors, I was also experimenting on the theoretical and technical
+obstacles blocking this GSoC project.  Pradyun Gedam (a mentor of mine)
+suggested making [a proof of concept][] to determine if parallel downloading
+can play nicely with ResolveLib_'s abstraction and we are reviewing it
+together.  On the technical side, we `pip`'s committers are exploring
+{{pip 8169 "available options for parallelization"}} and I made an attempt to
+{{pip 8320 "make use of Python's standard worker pool in a portable way"}}.
+
+## Did I get stuck anywhere?
+
+Yes, of course!  Neither of the experiments above is finished as of
+this moment.  Though, I am optimistic that the issues will not be
+real blockers and we will figure that out in the next few days.
+
+## What is coming up next?
+
+As planned, this week I am going to refactor the package downloading code
+in `pip`.  The main purpose is to decouple the networking code from
+the package preparation operation and make sure that it is thread-safe.
+
+In addition, I am also continuing mentioned experiments to have a better
+confidence on the future of this GSoC project.
+
+To other GSoC students, mentors and admins reading this, I am wishing
+you all good health and successful projects this summer!
+
+[free software]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
+[a proof of concept]: https://gist.github.com/McSinyx/513dbff71174fcc79f1cb600e09881af
+[ResolveLib]: https://pypi.org/project/resolvelib