Michael Pogue wrote:
I have a suggestion: in another current thread, "Build times for Open
Solaris", there's discussion about build parallelism on a Niagara
(T1000), and how we don't get much benefit in build time beyond 4 CPUs.
I think that it would be a great Summer of Code project, to investigate
what it would take to get full utilization (32 CPU's) on a T1000
building Open Solaris. And then, contribute the changes back to
OpenSolaris, speeding up the build process for everybody (who has access
to multi-cpu hardware).
So, in this instance, you are suggesting an entirely new project,
correct? If so, a new project will have to be proposed and seconded. Is
this something you are proposing?
In addition to suggestions for new projects, I'm especially interested
in hearing from our existing projects to see what they plan to offer.
Thanks, Mike.
Jim
It wouldn't require deep knowledge of the internals of Solaris, so the
barrier to entry is not high. And, it's a chance to play around with
some really cool hardware (pun intentional :-).
Mike
Jim Grisanzio wrote:
hey, guys.
Google has announced its 2006 Summer of Code:
http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
This is the second summer where Google has engaged student developers
worldwide to participate on a variety of open source projects under
this mentoring program. OpenSolaris has applied to be one of those
mentoring communities. It's a great way for us to contribute to the
greater open source community, while at the same time providing us the
opportunity to meet new developers -- especially students -- in new
areas. See the details (especially question #2) about mentoring:
http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html
With more than 40 communities and more than 20 projects I think we
have more than enough to offer as this point. I'd like to get a thread
started here for possible project ideas. We need to act quickly if we
want to participate, though.
My initial thought: I think the easiest way to participate is for the
OpenSolaris project owners http://www.opensolaris.org/os/projects to
be mentors (or identify mentors) to these new student developers.
Perhaps we could flush out some ideas in this thread and then the
interested projects/owners can mock up their project pages with a
Summer of Code section with some items the students can work on. We
can then add a box to the front page directing Summer of Code students
to those participating projects.
That part is easy. The question is this, though: are there any
OpenSolaris projects interested in engaging these students in Google's
Summer of code? If so, let's talk about what we could offer. I'll
collect the ideas and feed them into our application process.
Please feel free to forward to any list you think appropriate.
Best,
Jim
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