Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:28:07 -0500 From: Shaun Loo <loo00013@umn.edu> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: GSoC 2023 MFSBSD Integration Project Message-ID: <6032f3f0-6e37-9e1b-ffe8-481c1ce42d93@umn.edu>
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Hi all, I'm Shaun, a student who has been poking around with FreeBSD since the end of last year (installing onto various systems, recompiling the kernel for fun, simple stuff), and I figure I'd join FreeBSD's GSoC program this year and contribute to the project. I picked out the project "Integrate MFSBSD into the release building tools." The basic idea is to integrate MFSBSD, which generates an image that contains a minimal FreeBSD installation that is completely loaded into memory, into the release build tools. This will allow MFSBSD images of weekly snapshots to be generated automatically, rather than waiting for someone to manually generate one when new versions of FreeBSD are released, as well as facilitating testing of these images. I have already started some preliminary work on it (building MFSBSD for the upcoming 14.0 and familiarzing myself with FreeBSD's build tools) to get a feel for what I'll be trying to integrate into the release building tools. I've contacted Brad Davis <brd at FreeBSD dot org>, who was originally listed as the mentor for the project on the GSoC Ideas wiki page. Unfortunately, I have yet to have received a response. I've checked the src tree and it seems like their last commit was dated to October 2022. I've talked about this in the freebsd-soc IRC channel, and jrm has kindly pointed me to this mailing list as well as Martin Matuska <mm at FreeBSD dot org>, who maintains MFSBSD. I've tried contacting Martin over email yesterday and have not gotten a response. I'm wondering if anyone on this list is able and willing to be my mentor for this project, or if there are any other build tools-related projects I could work on for GSoC 2023? Thanks, Shaun Loo
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