-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hello fellow developers,
The summer is over :( but I'm happy to announce that this year's Summer of Code at Debian[1] has been better than ever! :) This is indeed the 4th time we had the privilege of participating in the Google Summer of Code and each year has been a little different. This year, 8 of our 10 students succeeded in our (very strict!) final evaluations, but we have reasons to believe that they will translate into more long-term developers than ever, all thank to you. The highlight this year has been getting almost all of our students at DebConf10[2][4]. Thanks again this year to generous Travel Grants from the Google Open Source Team, we managed to fly in 7 of our students (up from 3!). You certainly saw them, presenting during DebianDay, hacking on the grass of Columbia, hacking^Wcheering our Debian Project Leader throwing the inaugural pitch of a professional baseball game or hacking^Wsun-tanning on the très kitsch Coney Island beach. Before I give the keyboard to our Students, I'd like to tell you that it will be the pleasure and honor of Obey Arthur Liu (yours truly, as Administrator) and Bastian Venthur (as Mentor) to represent Debian at the Summer of Code 2010 Mentors Summit on 23-24 October 2010, at the Google Headquarters in Mountain View. Like last year[3], we expect many other DDs to be present under other hats. We will be having 2 days of unconference on GSoC and free software related topics. We all look forward to reporting from California on Planet and soc-coordinat...@l.a.d.o! All of our students had a wonderful experience, even if they couldn't come to DebConf, that is best shared in their own voice, so without further ado, our successful projects: === Multi-Arch support in APT === by David Kalnischkies, mentored by Michael Vogt "apt-get install MultiArch" does mostly work now as most code is already merged in squeeze, but if not complain about us at de...@l.d.o! Still, a lot left on the todo list - not only in APT - so let us all add MultiArch again to the Release Goals and work hard on squeezing it into wheezy. :) === Debbugs Bug Reporting and Manipulation API === by David Wendt Jr., mentored by Bastian Venthur Hello, I'm David Wendt, and I went to Debconf10 to learn more about the development side of Debian. Having used it since the 9th grade, I've been intimately familiar with many of Debian's internals. However, I wanted to see the developers and other Debian users. At DebConf, I was able to see a variety of talks from Debian and Ubuntu developers. I also got to meet with my mentor as well as the maintainer of Debbugs. === Content-aware Config Files Upgrading === by Krzysztof Tyszecki, mentored by Dominique Dumont Config::Model is now capable of manipulating files using shorter and easier to write models. Thanks to that, packagers may start experiment with creating upgrade models. Further work is needed to support more complicated config files - Dominique Dumont is working on DEP-5 parser, I'll shortly start working on a cupsd config file parser. The best thing about DebConf10 is that every person I talked with knew what I was doing. I had a mission to get some feedback on my project. Everybody liked the idea of making upgrades less cumbersome. On the other side, it was my first visit to United States, so I decided to go on a daytrip on my own (instead of staying inside the building, despite heat warnings). I had a chance to visit many interesting places like Ground Zero, the UN headquarters, Grand Central Terminal, Times square and Rockefeller Center - that was a great experience. === Hurd port and de-Linux-ization of Debian-Installer === by Jérémie Koenig, mentored by Samuel Thibault Debconf10 was great! Among other people working on the installer, I met Aurélien Jarno from the Debian/kFreeBSD team and we worked together on a cross-platform busybox package. Besides, the talks were very interesting and I've filled my TODO-list for the year. For instance I learned about the Jigsaw project of OpenJDK, and how Debian would be the ideal platform to experiment with it. More generally, some people think Debian could push Java 7 forward and I'd like to see this happen. === Smart Upload Server for FTP Master === by Petr Jasek, mentored by Joerg Jaspert I must say that it was great time for me in NY, I've met and talked and coded with people from ftp-master team like Torsten Werner who helped me to push the project a bit further and with some other people who were looking forward to release of the tool which I hope they will use quite soon. Everybody interested, everybody excited, really cool place and time. And I can't forget the Coney Island beach and stuff, lot of fun, lot of sun;) === Aptitude Qt === by Piotr Galiszewski, mentored by Sune Vuorela Currently, development branches support full features searching, viewing extended package's informations, performing cache and packages operations. Code and GUI still require a lot of work which will be continued. Informations about further progress could be found on aptitude mailing list and repository rss channel. === Debian-Installer on Neo FreeRunner and Handheld Devices === by Thibaut Girka, mentored by Gaudenz Steinlin "For me, DebConf 10 started at the airport, where Sylvestre Ledru (whom I didn't know of before) was wearing a GSoC 2007 t-shirt, that is, given the circumstances, almost equivalent to say "I'm a hacker, I'm going to DebConf 10". I've spent my time at the conference attending various talks, hacking, meeting DDs and other hackers (amongst others, my co-mentor Per Andersson, Paul Wise, Julien Cristau, Christian Perrier, Cyril Brulebois, Martin Michlmayr, Colin Watson and Otavio Salvadores who I have to thank for his patience while dealing with my questions), chatting, cross-signing keys, rushing to finish eating before 7pm, getting sunburnt, sightseeing (thanks, Arthur, for the lightning-fast tour of Manhattan!), and so on. Debian Developers and community, we count on you. See you next year! Obey Arthur Liu (cross-posted to [4] and soc-coordinat...@l.a.d.o) [1] <http://wiki.debian.org/gsoc> [2] <http://debconf10.debconf.org> [3] <http://www.milliways.fr/2009/10/24/debian-at-google-summer-of-code-mentor-summit/> [4] <http://www.milliways.fr/2010/09/19/google-summer-of-code-2010-debian-report/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJMlyLtAAoJEPGmm+QpwP/uyngP/30uyeUVfLgzTkTmt56obDhv oaLXbK/E3SkbSQ0yHVQ/a+2ex0qaycaIoZyc9Id0NeQSODeJ9JEGKyoH9tNihugT r7BhGZd6I8P4vKDDlYhMHV5JPzv0uMaIOy96zvNNkYCFgO9qOr7D05hr8UdeUqlM fyA5s+4DZ5Q5ZoFn9U7hkwmx0lAk0KyMk+qCfLFP/Is3QFvEgZ00b5mTdaHvMTWZ zeduDqgCM5xftOGuXQT5p+gv8rlaxtQJhOQ04zQAili2lbhdiutAB8SxJSfVKDsb y3XTgptr355n2tkxMJao69+4vq1WUy24L0OvdgNKO2eTnqt6Wc6mS+yQB0kfhVcB VzAJB/y2GpesC3CFuDxvauCtb4qjRP/AZmHTPEKIHkdfxJm4cRmRJigjbk/dmBBT +OHr6gaixXbLp/ftHwit+fjMSgnZY2ptnOds1vC19dvGEdDXQiwncY9kW0uw0wRk +dqTBtaNRcVBNkqUHXs54pL5UflHgHBTETnpl6CPI72kzwFRmqhRGuReYdtRKsau XKGI0UDWEMNomeUfe0tUv9aZsLNvy4kUUpZKr0RrfieBQmdPv7sxDwN6C6BuHcZg jcT9L7AGoVup9Bp5cNdyIj+btO4X5uOrRf7UF48NpPKrQlJvPtOIiGJyTITJMKy6 2jTsH3NucDcz+rV6IG+c =wzoY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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