Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:04:21 -0400 From: Joseph Mingrone <jrm@FreeBSD.org> To: "divyansh.nankani" <divyanshvn@zohomail.in> Cc: net@freebsd.org, Alexander V. Chernikov <melifaro@FreeBSD.org>, Alan Somers <asomers@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Guidance regarding GSoC projects Message-ID: <86a5oduzp6.fsf@phe.ftfl.ca> In-Reply-To: <18d751bffa6.4434daac65629.196624564669687745@zohomail.in> (divyansh nankani's message of "Sun, 04 Feb 2024 22:43:05 %2B0530") References: <18d751bffa6.4434daac65629.196624564669687745@zohomail.in>
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On Sun, 2024-02-04 at 22:43, "divyansh.nankani" <divyanshvn@zohomail.in> wr= ote: > Hi ,=C2=A0 > I am intending to participate in GSoC for FreeBSD this year. I need a bit= of help navigating where to start contributing to FreeBSD for issues/featu= res specifically related to the GSoC projects I am targeting :=C2=A0 > - Improve netgraph concurrency=C2=A0 > - Implement MPLS support for FreeBSD > I am also interested in=C2=A0UFS4fuse: support FreeBSD's UFS2 with fusefs= (with rust)=C2=A0but there is no mentor assigned for this project on the p= roject ideas page. > I will be really grateful if you can help me out with this. > Thanks, > Divyansh Hi Divyansh, It's nice to hear you are interested in working with FreeBSD this summer, a= nd it's good you are starting early. We find out around February 21 whethe= r FreeBSD has been accepted to participate in GSoC 2024. The MPLS project was attempted in 2008 [0] and 2018 [1]. Hopefully we can = track down some code from that past work and then determine whether this is= still an appropriate project. I see 29 bugs related to netgraph [3]. I suggest investigating the newer o= nes to see if they pique your interest. Although not directly related to c= oncurrency, bug #267413 looks interesting. It's unclear how challenging it= will be to solve. Maybe Alexander, who is copied here, could offer better= guidance. There is now one tentative mentor for the UFS4fuse project, Alan Somers. I= say tentative because we probably still require a co-mentor for this proje= ct to be viable. We have one in mind but have yet to hear back whether he'= s available. I hope this helps you get started. If you have any other questions, please= let me know, and I'll do my best to steer you in the right direction. Regards, Joe [0] https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2008#Implementation_of_MPLS_on_Fre= eBSD [1] https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2018Projects/FinishingMPLS [3] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=3Dnetgraph
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