Hi all,

Please take a few minutes to read this email.

First of all, I'd like to make a request to students and mentors that
status reports come in on the Monday of each week, detailing what the
last weeks' accomplishments were and explaining what will be coming up
in the following week. This was in the GSoC sheet I sent out to
everybody at the beginning of this year's endeavor, and it is becoming
very tedious for me to figure out what is going on in the entirety of
the Plan 9 SoC world (I imagine others are having a more difficult
time).

PLEASE SEND STATUS REPORTS ON MONDAY! It will make everyone's life easier.

This is the last time I'm requesting this publicly; I'm going to start
being a major asshole and emailing students and their mentors twice a
day (morning and evening) each day a report is late or missing.

Mid-term evaluations are to be begin in TWO WEEKS and to be submitted
no later than THREE WEEKS from Monday. If you are behind on your
project, catch up. Quickly. We don't want to fail anybody, but that's
not up to us.

Finally, I only know where to find code for two student projects:
9null and gitfs. The former is at:
Iruatã Souza, 9null: http://gsoc.9vx.org/hg/hgwebdir.cgi/9null/
Manzur Mukhitdinov, gitfs: http://github.com/manzur/gitfs/tree/master

I do not have locations for code for any other students. We NEED to
know where your code is so that we can provide feedback on it as your
mentors. For my student specifically, it's been somewhat difficult to
give suggestions because I can't see the work as a whole; in the
network stack things go on everywhere (especially for TCP). I imagine
the same is true for most other people.

Please please PLEASE get code checked in somewhere (I really don't
care where) publicly accessible and let me know by Monday. I will
start being an asshole and emailing mentors and students twice daily
if I don't see this by Monday. (We're starting on having the coding
part of the project active for a month now, and I think the lack of
repos is kind of ridiculous).

So far, we've received the following status reports (Week 4 is the
next week's upcoming work). This is as I understand it. With the
general chaos that has been this year's GSoC, I may be wrong, but
please correct me if I am so I can fix this list.

Manuel Franceschini:
  o Week 1: unproductive, mostly busy with exams and wrapping up the
school year. Some look into the network code.
  o Week 2: adding hooks into ip{i,o}put, hashing src/dest ip/port.
  o Week 3: working on checksumming rewritten packets.
  o Week 4: going for successful TCP packet NATting; finish up checksumming.

Priyanka Sharma:
  o Week 1: Installing glendix on a VM and native hardware, removing
root user requirement from clone and unshare.
  o Week 2: unproductive, relocating.
  o Week 3: Get a working rfork(2)
  o Week 4: ???

André Günther:
  o Week 1: vx32 porting work
  o Week 2: Work on 9vx; discovered memory management methodology used
in vx32 doesn't work for 9vx, so back to the drawing board with that.
  o Week 3: Getting mmu.c running on Windows, add some assertions to
get other things working.
  o Week 4: ???

Iruatã Souza:
  o Week 1: Missing report. (Or I can't find it)
  o Week 2: Beginning work on PBS
  o Week 3: Finish PBS work
  o Week 4: ???

Manzur Mukhitdinov:
  o Week 1: Missing report.
  o Week 2: Basic functionality for interacting with old git versions?
  o Week 3: Checking module consistency, diff trees, compatibility
issues, excluding mechanism, log viewing, commit tree work with env
variables, and some other stuff.
  o Week 4: Work on fileserver infrom nextterface.

Alex Shinn:
  o Week 1: Unicode support in chibi-scheme.
  o Week 2: Missing report.
  o Week 3: Garbage collection; some stack/heap issues with that, so
we'll revisit this area later when some other things are taken care
of.
  o Week 4: ?

Gabriel Diaz:
  Missing all reports, not sure of status. Have had some contact.
Erik, can you give us more information on the status of this project?

Again, my apologies if this status digest is not entirely accurate.
Starting this week, I'll be sending weekly updates at the end of each
week. If you are blogging your status reports (e.g. Alex Shinn),
please ALSO email the list to let us know there's an update and
provide a link to the updated blog post.

This list is not entirely accurate because we are actually coming upon
our FIFTH week of coding. So starting from next week, I'll be starting
from a fresh slate in the digest.

Monday guys, let's get cracking!

--dho

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