Re: Ceph & Google Summer of Code 2014

2014-02-24 Thread Loic Dachary
Hi Patrick, This is great news. Not only for the students who will get a chance to discover Ceph in the process. But also because it means you managed to demonstrate that Ceph is a project supported by a community. Congrats :-) On 24/02/2014 21:42, Patrick McGarry wrote: > Hey Cephers, > > T

Ceph & Google Summer of Code 2014

2014-02-24 Thread Patrick McGarry
Hey Cephers, This week we found out that the Ceph project has been accepted as a mentoring organization [0] for the Google Summer of Code [1]. This means that Google will foot the bill for some number of student developers this summer ($6000, of which $5500 goes to the student and $500 goes to Ce

Re: Google Summer of Code 2014

2014-02-12 Thread Loic Dachary
Hi, I've added the "INCREASE CODE COVERAGE" project description and volunteer to be a mentor. "ALLOW A TUNABLE “PRIMARY AFFINITY” IN THE OSDMAP" is already implemented but not merged yet at https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/1176 I volunteer to be a co-mentor for "ADD ERASURE CODING TO THE DURA

Re: Google Summer of Code 2014

2014-02-12 Thread Li Wang
Hi Patrick and Sage, We are pleasure to do this below ALLOW A TUNABLE “PRIMARY AFFINITY” IN THE OSDMAP, as well as Extend CRUSH Policy Language to Support More Interesting Policies of GSOC 2013, if it has not been done. Both are related to crush optimization. We are ready to be mentees :) Che

Google Summer of Code 2014

2014-02-12 Thread Patrick McGarry
Hey Ceph developers, We are getting ready to submit our project list to be a mentoring organization for GSoC 2014 and Sage suggested that perhaps there might be a few more mentors/projects out there. At the very least perhaps some of you could help with polishing the (very rough) project descript