Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:47:12 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Murray Stokely <murray@stokely.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, Garrett Cooper <gcooper@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Summer of Code 2008 Project Ideas Message-ID: <A5672819-08F0-4D9B-9E4B-6548D2EBD025@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a7894eb0803171515l7a0e1acld84b793aa3c9cc6c@mail.gmail.com> References: <2a7894eb0802200020g5e4f9ff8p7d3044bbec261706@mail.gmail.com> <2a7894eb0803171515l7a0e1acld84b793aa3c9cc6c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mar 17, 2008, at 3:15 PM, Murray Stokely wrote: > The FreeBSD Project was again accepted as a mentoring organization > for the > Google Summer of Code. The student application period will begin > next week > so if you have any ideas for great student projects, please send > them to > soc-admins@FreeBSD.org or post them here for discussion. A good > student > project has a well defined purpose, some key FreeBSD developers that > could > be identified as potential mentors, and is feasible for a student to > complete in a few months time. The existing ideas list is available > here : > > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/ > > If you can suggest something (getting specific parts of valgrind > working on > FreeBSD?) then please provide information in the form of the other > projects > listed on the page as far as difficulty level, requirements, etc.. > > Thanks, > > - Murray "Sysinstall" - Isn't this being handled to some extent? I remember someone posting an RFC a few months ago. They may need a helping hand in coding stuff up, but it sounded like there was a plan already in place. "Improving the USB stack in FreeBSD" - Wasn't HFS working on that too? Duplicating work might not be a good thing.. "FAT (msdosfs) infrastructure work" - (extension) Microsoft is coming up with a new extension to VFAT (they're calling it x-FAT), which supports large devices. There's also FATX (Xbox based FAT-spinoff FS). I was just thinking that combining the three into a base library with individual extensions might be a good idea. "NTFS - sync FreeBSD up with ntfs project" - NTFS support in FreeBSD is a bit out of date, and panics on some platforms with some configurations. Bringing NTFS in the kernel / userland up to date would be a welcome improvement for many users. FYI, I'm still working on the following items: 1. "Add hashed .db support to pkg_tools" (accepted) 2. "Utility for safe updating of ports in base system" (assumed) 3. "Package tools improvements" (assumed) Not saying helping hands wouldn't be welcome with my work, but I owe FreeBSD / GSoC as much of my time for last year and I've committed myself to seeing my work through. Thanks, -Garrett
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