Hello Dhruvesh, > Hello, > > We are a group of students that are currently pursuing our undergraduate > degrees in Computer Science form Pune Institute of Computer Technology > (PICT), Maharashtra, India. We will be graduating in June 2015 and are > currently in our final year. For our final year B.E project we have > selected the domain as Computer Networks and would be very interested in > working in the field of routing protocols for multihop ad-hoc mesh > networks, which is where we stumbled upon the B.A.T.M.A.N protocol. Over > the past few weeks we have been extensively studying the various features > and working principles which has allowed this protocol to prosper. It will > be a great learning opportunity for us to work with B.A.T.M.A.N and in > turn work with you. As per given on the open-mesh.org website for > contributions, we would appreciate if you could steer us towards the > direction of choosing the right topic and working towards culminating a > project in the same, which would be helpful for the community. Following > are a few details which includes information about us, which would help > you in making an informed decision:
Thank you very much for your interesting proposal. We have discussed a little
bit about topics you might find interesting and which are currently vacant:
* Distributed ARP table support for IPv6 - this has been started but they guy
who has been working on it doesn't have the time anymore. You could pick up
the patches [1]
* Interconnecting batman-adv clouds. We have a rough draft proposal [2]
already, but nothing more
* Evaluation and review of BATMAN V - we currently work on the next
generation of BATMAN routing, and testing/reviewing that would certainly help.
I'm not sure how much experience you have in kernel development. Depending on
the task you choose, it would be a good thing to start reading about how the
kernel and kernel modules work. In any case, for submitting code you must
comply to the Linux kernel coding style[3], and should run your patches
through checkpatch, but you probably have already read that in our
contribute[4] page. And please don't hesitate to send patches early, you can
always send unfinished stuff as RFC patches. As you can see on the mailing
list, we usually have a few review cycles for patches, and even though you
have a few months planned development, time runs out easily and it would be
sad to see half-finished stuff stopped being worked on. :) You should plan to
release the first feature-complete patchset at half-time at latest to have
enough time for review/corrections.
If you have ideas on your own what you want to work on, please don't hesitate
to propose them!
Cheers,
Simon
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.freifunk.batman/10014/focus=10574
[2] http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki/Connecting-Batman-adv-
clouds
[3] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle
[4] http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki/Contribute
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