Google Summer of Code 2009

siddhant · 2009-02-10 04:31:17

Google is probably conducting a Summer of Code this year as well. I haven't heard of any dates as of now. But they have released the flyers and logos on the mailing list. Arch should apply as a mentoring organization! I'd love that!

Xyne · 2009-02-10 04:37:05

Maybe we could add a feature to pacman to send back all of our personal and system usage data to google every time we update.

buttons · 2009-02-10 05:03:06

Xyne wrote:

Maybe we could add a feature to pacman to send back all of our personal and system usage data to google every time we update.

You don't?

Allan · 2009-02-10 08:55:24

Well, getting GPG package signing fully implemented in pacman might make a good project.

herr.jth · 2009-02-19 14:20:24

siddhant wrote:

Google is probably conducting a Summer of Code this year as well. I haven't heard of any dates as of now. But they have released the flyers and logos on the mailing list. Arch should apply as a mentoring organization! I'd love that!

Yes, Arch as mentoring organization would be great.

Are there concrete plans for arch to participate on SoC 2009 if enough students come up with good ideas / projects? I`am already thinking about some projects I would like to do and it would be nice to discuss them in a wider area with users, devs and potential mentors.

Maybe we could set up a wiki-page to collect all ideas like the GPG-signing for packets etc.

Xilon · 2009-02-21 04:35:50

Making libalpm reentrant would be nice. Asynchronous I/O is another thing worth looking at (as opposed to threading, since it's I/O bound). Not sure if it's appropriate for GSoC, but documentation always needs some work . Real transaction support is another big thing.

rubend · 2009-02-21 12:18:59

Was just thinking of doing summer of code this summer and would love to do it for arch.
Only one problem: I'm European so I have exams in june. I would only be available starting from july the first.

With that comes the fact that my parents want to do this big trip, but maybe if we plan it in august it will work.

So what it comes down to I wouldn't be available for the full program. It would only be possible if you guys have some smaller/easier project I could work on.

Anyway Go for it Arch devs .

herr.jth · 2009-02-21 12:55:36

Xilon wrote:

Making libalpm reentrant would be nice. Asynchronous I/O is another thing worth looking at (as opposed to threading, since it's I/O bound). Not sure if it's appropriate for GSoC, but documentation always needs some work . Real transaction support is another big thing.

Afaik google prefers projects where some "new stuff" or product stands at the end. On the other hand, last year were also some documentation-related projects, so I think that would be okay, too. For example, NetBSD had some code-commentary tool, which sounds like a good idea and should not be too hard to implement.

siddhant · 2009-03-09 21:13:15

Ok. I just received a mail on the mailing list, which says GSoC 2009 is on! They're now accepting applications from potential mentoring organizations. Maybe there could be a wiki page to gather all Arch related project ideas.
Arch devs, applying?

Xilon · 2009-03-24 05:26:09

Apparently not .

It would still be nice to have a TODO list of sorts for GSoC 2010.

Dusty · 2009-03-24 13:04:04

We discussed it, but nobody felt they had the time to step up to be a proper mentor. Personally I'd love to work with a bright Arch dev, and given the nature of this community, they probably wouldn't need much help. ;-) But I am so busy this year I just can't commit.

Dusty

Allan · 2009-03-24 13:13:09

I had ideas for pacman but I have no time to mentor this year. Also, given I ht unave never dealt with much of the C code, I would not be a great mentor...

X/ax · 2009-03-24 14:24:52

Perhaps having a small remake of the google summer of code. Call it the Arch summer of code... Of course it wouldn't be as high-class as the GSoC...

Dusty · 2009-03-24 15:04:24

X/ax wrote:

Perhaps having a small remake of the google summer of code. Call it the Arch summer of code... Of course it wouldn't be as high-class as the GSoC...

Or paid.

Xilon · 2009-03-25 13:53:17

Allan wrote:

I had ideas for pacman but I have no time to mentor this year. Also, given I ht unave never dealt with much of the C code, I would not be a great mentor...

You'd definitely be the mentor for makepkg related stuff though.

Dusty wrote:

X/ax wrote:
Perhaps having a small remake of the google summer of code. Call it the Arch summer of code... Of course it wouldn't be as high-class as the GSoC...
Or paid.

Or useful . You might as well just pick something out, start hacking, and if in need hit the ML or contact a dev directly.

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