Submit project ideas NOW for Google Summer of Code 2012
 

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 11:38:47PM -0600, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> <http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2012/Ideas>. If you
> have project ideas, this is the place to put them. It's critical to also
> include potential mentors and prerequisite skills so students know which
> ideas make sense and where to learn more about them.
For any devs with ideas from the previous years that didn't get chosen,
the old page is here:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/soc/ideas.xml

I'm not going to be putting my Upstart idea forward again, due to lack
of time, and I don't think it's quite suited. Somebody else might want
to look at the potential of porting OpenRC's oldnet into systemd
however...

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Submit project ideas NOW for Google Summer of Code 2012
 

I am not a developer yet, but I would like to suggest some idea possibilities:

Minix port of Gentoo
Illumos port of Gentoo
LLVM/Clang System Compiler Support
ICC System Compiler Support (probably easier than LLVM/Clang)
Port of Gentoo/FreeBSD to amd64 (or other architectures)
Gentoo/FreeBSD KVM port (we don't have to let upstream have all of the fun)
Gentoo Prefix --as-needed support on one or more architectures that
currently lack it
Gentoo Prefix Cygwin support
Gentoo Prefix Minix support

I might be too inexperienced to serve as a mentor this summer,
provided that the recruitment process finishes in time. I would
appreciate it if anyone interested in being a mentor for any of these
ideas adopted them.

On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:03 AM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 11:38:47PM -0600, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>> <http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2012/Ideas>. If you
>> have project ideas, this is the place to put them. It's critical to also
>> include potential mentors and prerequisite skills so students know which
>> ideas make sense and where to learn more about them.
> For any devs with ideas from the previous years that didn't get chosen,
> the old page is here:
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/soc/ideas.xml
>
> I'm not going to be putting my Upstart idea forward again, due to lack
> of time, and I don't think it's quite suited. Somebody else might want
> to look at the potential of porting OpenRC's oldnet into systemd
> however...
>
> --
> Robin Hugh Johnson
> Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
> E-Mail * * : robbat2@gentoo.org
> GnuPG FP * : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
>

Submit project ideas NOW for Google Summer of Code 2012
 

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Richard Yao <ryao@cs.stonybrook.edu> wrote:
> I am not a developer yet, but I would like to suggest some idea possibilities:
>
> Minix port of Gentoo
> Illumos port of Gentoo
> LLVM/Clang System Compiler Support
> ICC System Compiler Support (probably easier than LLVM/Clang)
> Port of Gentoo/FreeBSD to amd64 (or other architectures)
> Gentoo/FreeBSD KVM port (we don't have to let upstream have all of the fun)
> Gentoo Prefix --as-needed support on one or more architectures that
> currently lack it
> Gentoo Prefix Cygwin support
> Gentoo Prefix Minix support

I'm a little wary of 'ports' as I am unsure myself how much actual
software writing is required.

>
> I might be too inexperienced to serve as a mentor this summer,
> provided that the recruitment process finishes in time. I would
> appreciate it if anyone interested in being a mentor for any of these
> ideas adopted them.

You don't need to be a Gentoo Developer to be a mentor.

>
> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:03 AM, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 11:38:47PM -0600, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>>> <http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code/2012/Ideas>. If you
>>> have project ideas, this is the place to put them. It's critical to also
>>> include potential mentors and prerequisite skills so students know which
>>> ideas make sense and where to learn more about them.
>> For any devs with ideas from the previous years that didn't get chosen,
>> the old page is here:
>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/userrel/soc/ideas.xml
>>
>> I'm not going to be putting my Upstart idea forward again, due to lack
>> of time, and I don't think it's quite suited. Somebody else might want
>> to look at the potential of porting OpenRC's oldnet into systemd
>> however...
>>
>> --
>> Robin Hugh Johnson
>> Gentoo Linux: Developer, Trustee & Infrastructure Lead
>> E-Mail * * : robbat2@gentoo.org
>> GnuPG FP * : 11ACBA4F 4778E3F6 E4EDF38E B27B944E 34884E85
>>
>

Submit project ideas NOW for Google Summer of Code 2012
 

On 03/08/2012 02:28 AM, Richard Yao wrote:

I am not a developer yet, but I would like to suggest some idea possibilities:

Minix port of Gentoo
Illumos port of Gentoo
LLVM/Clang System Compiler Support
ICC System Compiler Support (probably easier than LLVM/Clang)
Port of Gentoo/FreeBSD to amd64 (or other architectures)
Gentoo/FreeBSD KVM port (we don't have to let upstream have all of the fun)
Gentoo Prefix --as-needed support on one or more architectures that
currently lack it
Gentoo Prefix Cygwin support
Gentoo Prefix Minix support
We (Patrick and I) tried to get someone interested in an OpenBSD
(re)port of Gentoo, but students lots interest. Maksbotan got involved
but we soon hit deep snags. There were not something we couldn't
handle, but they were time consuming. For the hell of it, I started
porting Gentoo to minix a few days ago when 3.2.0 came out. Same story,
and as soon as the issues got deep, I asked myself, do I have time for
this?!


Then I asked, who would use this? I'm not sure about the OpenBSD port
but with Minix there is some possibility because Minix is in need of
userland. *Shrug*


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