Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 12:49:16 -0800 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org> To: "freebsd-testing@freebsd.org" <freebsd-testing@freebsd.org> Subject: Ideas for Google Summer of Code and testing/devops automation? Message-ID: <CAG=rPVfdixs_8aNZ3Up0FVLUnK57vaD6PRUvkAdKgaDkx17hjg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, The FreeBSD project has been part of the Google Summer of Code for a number of years: https://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode.html Typically, the participants in GSoC have worked on projects which are in the FreeBSD source code. For 2015, I would like to see if we can get GSoC participants working on enhancing the testing/automation in FreeBSD. Unfortunately, by focusing on FreeBSD source code and C, FreeBSD is depriving itself of a large talent pool of young programmers who are not learning how to code in C. A lot of the Jenkins continuous integration work uses stuff written in Java and Python, so I hope we can use this example to attract people who would prefer to code in other languages like Java, Python, etc. Please respond to this thread if you can think of any ideas that we can add to the IdeasPage ( https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage ) where some GSoC participants have gotten ideas for their projects. Keep in mind that any idea has to adhere to the requirements for GSoC ( http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2014/help_page ). Some ideas I would like to see include: * Add FreeBSD support to Travis continuous integration ( https://travis-ci.org/ ) * port NetBSD rump kernel to FreeBSD -- Craig
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