I exchanged some mail with Eric Schrock recently and he gave me some ideas about how the ZFS guys could potentially participate in this. From Eric: here are some ZFS suggestions of varying complexities:

- new compression algorithms
- new checksum algorithms
- block allocation visualization/optimization
- integrated rolling snapshot functionality
- integrated MDB backend for pools (re-implement zdb as a bunch of mdb
  dcmds/walkers)
- background disk scrubbing
- user undo
- snapshot 'diff'

I'll see if we can get some ZFS mentors.

Jim




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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