From owner-freebsd-testing@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 2 20:49:19 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-testing@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 18DEEA6A for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2015 20:49:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x234.google.com (mail-la0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::234]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 88697118A for ; Fri, 2 Jan 2015 20:49:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f52.google.com with SMTP id hs14so16116719lab.11 for ; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 12:49:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=lmr1xN0tXlj1A5nxB7clWDo/by7HIjsS11O1BvZYPLo=; b=TzUKF0RIEMUIDza0tYlymbmQVeLks1AziKwVJ0N9YMH9/nsY2wZXrNKAIDol5pLd0l p9TKjKS2ixqYbIsUrIAPncg3yOO91melwLbLf4ABG6A6RJTkancdmxG2INwmBI5HI8L8 9/F+mDs1vdZc5M55JXcUfRH+XrieuLNQT7ObNomsnfiAZT68M/Pc3vt/m+iZ9vr/Hqnh yWOvY70p0SedSmncGgXvrvLgXNJB3YyQfgq95PNOv4xO8C2xcjymn6ohcCp9mNS7oKDd 0b8Js6qNJYoLtmS4E6IcgXQF13Fzw/O9TFA4YnjBxi/TOGbuYHrEhEskq3Yx6iE1h9uD r69Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.23.38 with SMTP id j6mr78614076laf.81.1420231756499; Fri, 02 Jan 2015 12:49:16 -0800 (PST) Sender: crodr001@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.141.5 with HTTP; Fri, 2 Jan 2015 12:49:16 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2015 12:49:16 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: MKLXXwtU6db6MKGKterEkpgcpPo Message-ID: Subject: Ideas for Google Summer of Code and testing/devops automation? From: Craig Rodrigues To: "freebsd-testing@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-testing@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Testing on FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 20:49:19 -0000 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