The "ideas" page is the place to put such suggestions. See: http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/Google+Summer+of+Code Feel free to add yours.
Thanks, Gordon On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Alexander Pyhalov <a...@rsu.ru> wrote: > Hello. > > Garrett D'Amore писал 14.02.2014 06:43: > >> But they do. Openindiana is still the reference as the only disto >> that can build vanilla an unmodified illumos-gate. Unless that has >> changed? >> >> Resources are tight enough that if there are mentors for OI willing to >> help out I see no issue. Unless we have a larger number of mentors >> and viable candidates than slots. I doubt that is going to happen this >> year based on the responses so far. I also haven't heard any of OI >> developers offer to mentor so it may be a moot question. >> > > Should we provide a set of specific project ideas for application? > > I'd like to suppose several tasks if no one objects: > 1) make oi-userland safe in respect to parallel package compiling (now we > support compiling multiple components in parallel), it would be good to > support compiling most components themself in parallel; > 2) add build-time dependency tracking to oi-userland (the framework itself > to set buildtime dependencies for components and installing prerequisite > packages before building) and set correct dependencies for at least all > major components; > 3) XNV/JDS transition to oi-userland, perhaps renewal of X11; > 4) at last, port "your favorite software". > > I'd like to help but I'm not sure in > a) how much time I can dedicate to this task > b) if I have skills enough to mentor all these task. > > Also, perhaps, it's better to clear way for non-very-popular illumos tasks > (drm/wi-fi stack/new drivers/etc). In sense, that we can solve above > mentioned problems (or perhaps workaround them), but we can't do anything if > OS just doesn't support specific use case or user system. > --- > System Administrator of Southern Federal University Computer Center > _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev