From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 18 10:16:06 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A465106566C for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:16:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.245]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BA128FC16 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:16:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c16so1538804ana.7 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:16:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references:x-mailer; bh=rupJdIoakXJSts+detxIFF8YhfS8lPgfazvhhMdBZNo=; b=uXtRv9OA84qDeDCgbdb8fC0O+hOMkSx60X75JbT+4C8E0hASA1M/ZA1rzAKz3sBUxCopXLE8wkxa9pOWMVQOcDCNUTu9LkuU8a7JiuBFeZojoby26MiWbWuJ+SyC59CZ+a6jm5fAkbqoevogjnv7G1YTjkJ+uWTD2+8+gnADj30= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references:x-mailer; b=TJ4xsAZRU3wRe1m1lLQqG3AIBCXFhooz3YIo+9EYQh/gs6NdC0YfTFUvjJ1D+wiLDgYiQiXdK+90sHjTla3z4AGWORjz+Oat/A5MrT2S4ztNyzp/ns30uYqWSKZDNuHlPykcXYec4BKKro+Ru7W+PzY6+5XRm8CX2paMRizqcvU= Received: by 10.100.58.19 with SMTP id g19mr1208569ana.44.1205833635211; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:47:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.10.43? ( [99.139.48.67]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e27sm14999891elf.1.2008.03.18.02.47.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:47:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: From: Garrett Cooper To: Murray Stokely In-Reply-To: <2a7894eb0803171515l7a0e1acld84b793aa3c9cc6c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 02:47:12 -0700 References: <2a7894eb0802200020g5e4f9ff8p7d3044bbec261706@mail.gmail.com> <2a7894eb0803171515l7a0e1acld84b793aa3c9cc6c@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, Garrett Cooper Subject: Re: Summer of Code 2008 Project Ideas X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:16:06 -0000 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