Re: Summer of Code 2008 Project Ideas
Hi Robert Watson! On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:45:19 + (GMT); Robert Watson wrote about 'Re: Summer of Code 2008 Project Ideas': >> The FreeBSD Project was again accepted as a mentoring organization for the >> Google Summer of Code. The student application period will begin next week >> so if you have any ideas for great student projects, please send them to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] or post them here for discussion. A good student >> project has a well defined purpose, some key FreeBSD developers that could >> be identified as potential mentors, and is feasible for a student to >> complete in a few months time. The existing ideas list is available here : >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/ >> >> If you can suggest something (getting specific parts of valgrind working on >> FreeBSD?) then please provide information in the form of the other projects >> listed on the page as far as difficulty level, requirements, etc.. > FYI, to students considering doing projects -- in the last day or two, we've > made significant updates to the project ideas list. If you looked a few days > ago, please look again. In particular, we've flagged a large number of > potential SoC projects that were not there previously. We've also filtered > out some that looked too big to be a good 3-month summer project, although > you > can still find many on the full ideas list. If you're going to work on a > proposal for one of these projects, please directly contact the contacts > listed for the project to get feedback before submitting your proposal. We > will continue to update the project ideas page as new ideas come in, so do > keep checking back. Is it too late to add another SoC idea? I've made a proposal post yesterday :) -- WBR, Vadim Goncharov. ICQ#166852181 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [Moderator of RU.ANTI-ECOLOGY][FreeBSD][http://antigreen.org][LJ:/nuclight] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Summer of Code 2008 Project Ideas
Stefan Sperling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:17:21PM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> You can >> also come up with your own project ideas if we have missed one :) > > I've got one: Implement wake on lan support for every ethernet > device driver in the tree. I like that idea. I miss being able to wake a few of my machines the way I could a couple of releases ago. -- Christian Laursen ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Summer of Code 2008 Project Ideas
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 10:17:21PM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: > You can > also come up with your own project ideas if we have missed one :) I've got one: Implement wake on lan support for every ethernet device driver in the tree. ifconfig in -CURRENT already supports configuring WOL, but there's not a single driver yet that makes use of this. There should be enough information to get interested people going at http://wiki.freebsd.org/WakeOnLan Apart from if_vr patches by Yongari (linked from the wiki page) and some other patches that sit in a few peoples' mailboxes, nothing has been happening around this in a while. I myself am busy working on Subversion atm and will start working on my Bachelor theses starting next semester (April-Juli), so I'm out :/ I'd be available to answer questions if necessary, however. -- stefan http://stsp.name PGP Key: 0xF59D25F0 pgpv2O4mHcYXj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Summer of Code 2008 Project Ideas
Robert Watson wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Murray Stokely wrote: The FreeBSD Project was again accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code. The student application period will begin next week so if you have any ideas for great student projects, please send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or post them here for discussion. A good student project has a well defined purpose, some key FreeBSD developers that could be identified as potential mentors, and is feasible for a student to complete in a few months time. The existing ideas list is available here : http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/ If you can suggest something (getting specific parts of valgrind working on FreeBSD?) then please provide information in the form of the other projects listed on the page as far as difficulty level, requirements, etc.. FYI, to students considering doing projects -- in the last day or two, we've made significant updates to the project ideas list. If you looked a few days ago, please look again. In particular, we've flagged a large number of potential SoC projects that were not there previously. We've also filtered out some that looked too big to be a good 3-month summer project, although you can still find many on the full ideas list. If you're going to work on a proposal for one of these projects, please directly contact the contacts listed for the project to get feedback before submitting your proposal. We will continue to update the project ideas page as new ideas come in, so do keep checking back. Also, keep in mind that you can submit more than one application if there are multiple projects you find interesting (or we add some later). You can also come up with your own project ideas if we have missed one :) Kris ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Summer of Code 2008 Project Ideas
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, Murray Stokely wrote: The FreeBSD Project was again accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code. The student application period will begin next week so if you have any ideas for great student projects, please send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or post them here for discussion. A good student project has a well defined purpose, some key FreeBSD developers that could be identified as potential mentors, and is feasible for a student to complete in a few months time. The existing ideas list is available here : http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/ If you can suggest something (getting specific parts of valgrind working on FreeBSD?) then please provide information in the form of the other projects listed on the page as far as difficulty level, requirements, etc.. FYI, to students considering doing projects -- in the last day or two, we've made significant updates to the project ideas list. If you looked a few days ago, please look again. In particular, we've flagged a large number of potential SoC projects that were not there previously. We've also filtered out some that looked too big to be a good 3-month summer project, although you can still find many on the full ideas list. If you're going to work on a proposal for one of these projects, please directly contact the contacts listed for the project to get feedback before submitting your proposal. We will continue to update the project ideas page as new ideas come in, so do keep checking back. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Summer of Code 2008 Project Ideas
Hi Murray Stokely! On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:15:40 -0700; Murray Stokely wrote about 'Summer of Code 2008 Project Ideas': > The FreeBSD Project was again accepted as a mentoring organization for the > Google Summer of Code. The student application period will begin next week > so if you have any ideas for great student projects, please send them to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] or post them here for discussion. A good student > project has a well defined purpose, some key FreeBSD developers that could > be identified as potential mentors, and is feasible for a student to > complete in a few months time. The existing ideas list is available here : > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/ > If you can suggest something (getting specific parts of valgrind working on > FreeBSD?) then please provide information in the form of the other projects > listed on the page as far as difficulty level, requirements, etc.. I'm going to write a proposal about a bunch of changes in ipfw2 (dynamic rules and others) in a day or two and post it for architectural discussion to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Has it any chances to go to SoC 2008 ? -- WBR, Vadim Goncharov. ICQ#166852181 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [Moderator of RU.ANTI-ECOLOGY][FreeBSD][http://antigreen.org][LJ:/nuclight] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Summer of Code 2008 Project Ideas
On Mar 17, 2008, at 3:15 PM, Murray Stokely wrote: The FreeBSD Project was again accepted as a mentoring organization for the Google Summer of Code. The student application period will begin next week so if you have any ideas for great student projects, please send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or post them here for discussion. A good student project has a well defined purpose, some key FreeBSD developers that could be identified as potential mentors, and is feasible for a student to complete in a few months time. The existing ideas list is available here : http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/ If you can suggest something (getting specific parts of valgrind working on FreeBSD?) then please provide information in the form of the other projects listed on the page as far as difficulty level, requirements, etc.. Thanks, - Murray "Sysinstall" - Isn't this being handled to some extent? I remember someone posting an RFC a few months ago. They may need a helping hand in coding stuff up, but it sounded like there was a plan already in place. "Improving the USB stack in FreeBSD" - Wasn't HFS working on that too? Duplicating work might not be a good thing.. "FAT (msdosfs) infrastructure work" - (extension) Microsoft is coming up with a new extension to VFAT (they're calling it x-FAT), which supports large devices. There's also FATX (Xbox based FAT-spinoff FS). I was just thinking that combining the three into a base library with individual extensions might be a good idea. "NTFS - sync FreeBSD up with ntfs project" - NTFS support in FreeBSD is a bit out of date, and panics on some platforms with some configurations. Bringing NTFS in the kernel / userland up to date would be a welcome improvement for many users. FYI, I'm still working on the following items: 1. "Add hashed .db support to pkg_tools" (accepted) 2. "Utility for safe updating of ports in base system" (assumed) 3. "Package tools improvements" (assumed) Not saying helping hands wouldn't be welcome with my work, but I owe FreeBSD / GSoC as much of my time for last year and I've committed myself to seeing my work through. Thanks, -Garrett ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Summer of Code 2008 Project Ideas
On 17/03/2008, Murray Stokely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The FreeBSD Project was again accepted as a mentoring organization for > the Google Summer of Code. The student application period will begin > next week so if you have any ideas for great student projects, please > send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or post them here for discussion. [snip] How about tick()-less kernel - replace dependance on regular hearbeat with a delta-queue that could be used to program the time of the next scheduled interrupt? You could start with the delta-queue pretending to be a regular heart beat then work on changing deltas between events... I'm sure there was a mention of something similar in Linux... Cheers, Igor ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
