-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi everyone!
I'd like to extend a warm welcome to our new batch of students selected for the 2011 Debian Google Summer of Code! They should soon be posting on Debian Planet and you're welcome to come talk to them on #debian-soc on irc.debian.org Further details will be posted in the coming days to our wiki: <http://wiki.debian.org/gsoc> == Automated Multi-Arch Cross-Building and Bootstrapping == aka "autocrossbuild", by Gustavo Prado Alkmim, mentored by Wookey Enable easy and automated setup of cross-platform automated build systems and bootstrapping for QA in the Multi-Arch era. This involves the creation of multi-stage bootstrap build sequencing tools and a reliable automated multi-arch cross-builder. == APT/Dpkg Transaction Ordering for Safety and Performance == aka "aptordering", by Chris Baines, mentored by Michael Vogt The ordering code in libapt is responsible for ordering the unpacking/configuration of debs so as to ensure dependencies are satisfied etc. Currently it organizes the ordering into big batches. This project further implements an ordering satisfying more constrains such as "minimal amounts of dpkg invocations", "minimal amount of broken packages at any point". == DebDelta APT Native Integration == aka "debdelta", by Ishan Jayawardena, mentored by Michael Vogt Improve user experience of APT and its front-ends by speeding up the upgrade process. This provides a better framework for unified handling of debdelta and future APT improvements such as parallelism. Support for stable and security ugprades as well as multiple APT related libraries is expected. == Dpkg Declarative Diversions == aka "declarativediversions", by Sam Dunne, mentored by Steve Langasek The dpkg-divert command should be replaced with a new control file with a declarative syntax which Dpkg will parse and process directly as part of the package unpack and removal phases, eliminating the problems resulting from non-atomic handling of diversions. == Backend Tools and Infrastructure for DEX == aka "dextools", by Nathan Handler, mentored by Matt Zimmerman EX is a new program designed to help improve Debian and its derivatives by merging in changes made downstream and encouraging discussions between the various projects. As this is a new project, most of the infrastructure does not exist (or is rather hackish and incomplete). This project will create the necessary backend tools and infrastructure so that all Debian derivatives can easily make use of the DEX project. == Jigsaw Modularized Java in Debian == aka "jigsaw", by Guillaume Mazoyer, mentored by Tom Marble The Java Development Kit (JDK) is a big monolithic software tool: many of its features are only useful in limited areas (GUI toolkits are useless for a web server). This project will bring the Jigsaw modular JDK to Debian, helping performance (start-up, size, etc) but also the dependency resolution (to match Debian packaging). Some work exists upstream does not fit with Debian. This project will package the current development version of Jigsaw, update Debian Java Policy, and create the necessary packaging tools for software depending on it. == Python Multi-Build for Python Extensions Packaging == aka "pythonmultibuild", by Mesutcan Kurt, mentored by Piotr Ozarowski This project creates a tool to build Python extensions for all Python versions supported by Debian at the time. The project should detect the upstream build system and testing frameworks and use them. It will be interfaced with CDBS and the dh sequencer, replacing their Python snippets. == Debian Teams Activity Metrics == aka "teammetrics", by Sukhbir Singh, mentored by Andreas Tille This project will gauge the performance of teams in Debian by measuring metrics such as: postings on relevant mailing lists, package upload records from the Ultimate Debian Database and commit statistics from project repositories... The information gathered will help in evaluating team performance by measuring how people in a team are working together. An interface to access this information easily will also be developed. == Compute Clusters Integration for Debian Development and Building == aka "computeclustersdev", by Rudy Godoy, mentored by Steffen Moeller The project's main goal is to enable developers to easily use compute clusters (Eucalyptus, OpenStack...) as environments for arch-specific development by providing a set of tools they can use to setup and run an extended platform for their development, testing and building tasks. Good luck to everyone! - -Obey Arthur Liu Cross-posted to Planet: <http://www.milliways.fr/2011/04/25/welcome-to-our-2011-debian-google-summer-of-code-students/> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJNtdHpAAoJEPGmm+QpwP/uZ0MP/R4nM9C9J/hXghAX3Vc2Gk5A /8gsyI/sVT55wdxc/C/WuB7ML8voPT5HGPYVLZxrTYJrI16XdyyKyfUkV7Bi7WHe EmQI82briw0st2QxgeEWenG3Zeo7G3JT7xGGyh5qMUBc0jYPnkQA+TbZWxJyvVnW nA5vFDqdPtrEDWmDVs5iMYa6JVusCZfivxV3cRsKj0f4plkDH0JJ5oL0jBgWx6la BDnMumkiYzNtD1tm0RDJjh7oPgcPxzOGTy3QoS9x9eeCkvzr8NJ/38TbjhMjuk0b SM0iH+LYj6rcRwHeq/DdE90Kha+1ADYIbhiPXN5kReY2S8joSf5V0NhIImtSK5rS 23CD/MfmAMrKCwIiA8KbMy2Za7TDrPwKFwFeAs5Wkqe+tqU9Xya85yaZA4RyOBSQ cTmXBysmIDP6bEPG8VL2dQtEpVah2PtjdVJYIjQBkhz235KqvHkwnhW7qDgKOdTN Ti3Vt4iC8imr0R0LLgmgUf4ElPXC5MAp6QAgvXOhNE+i1p62H4LZRet87nhwhZ2i LhnBrmB59VmSUHSL9loBY0L7rYfSC1LppIE+Rmq8+2X+HAIFq0BqsO+Xux32kRSf bwbI7/T4iixFv32ZPKSH9vHWgE1gq1qjIbOYGEy88mTDCvK/EFVXCTGl06GJUPUK Lu54HeYGhWrhEEJiIUtM =xlvp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Soc-coordination mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination
