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Chernikov , Alan Somers Subject: Re: Guidance regarding GSoC projects In-Reply-To: <18d751bffa6.4434daac65629.196624564669687745@zohomail.in> (divyansh nankani's message of "Sun, 04 Feb 2024 22:43:05 +0530") References: <18d751bffa6.4434daac65629.196624564669687745@zohomail.in> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2024 16:04:21 -0400 Message-ID: <86a5oduzp6.fsf@phe.ftfl.ca> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-net@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spamd-Bar: -- X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.46 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.56)[-0.558]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[jrm@FreeBSD.org,jrm@ftfl.ca]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+ip4:209.85.128.0/17]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_POLICY_SOFTFAIL(0.10)[freebsd.org : SPF not aligned (relaxed), No valid DKIM,none]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:15169, ipnet:209.85.128.0/17, country:US]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; FREEFALL_USER(0.00)[jrm]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[209.85.222.177:from]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[jrm@FreeBSD.org,jrm@ftfl.ca]; RWL_MAILSPIKE_POSSIBLE(0.00)[209.85.222.177:from]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[net@freebsd.org]; MLMMJ_DEST(0.00)[net@freebsd.org]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4TTvN74Vbzz4P36 On Sun, 2024-02-04 at 22:43, "divyansh.nankani" 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