Fedora Summer Coding community March 2012

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26 discussions

GSoC : Integrate Proxy Settings and Network Connections(Locations) project
by Buddhike Kurera 02 Apr '12

02 Apr '12

Hello, Sending the following email which found on the devel-list. Hello! I am Siddharth 2nd year Undergraduate student pursuing M.Sc(TECH) Information Systems at BITS-Pilani India. I am thorough with languages like C, C++ and Java and currently learning Python. I am keenly interested in contributing to the Integrate Proxy Settings and Network Connections(Locations) project of Fedora Projects for GSoC-2012. My understanding of the project is that when a user connects to a network, all settings such as proxy settings, IP settings (if required), sharing options etc will be saved for each network. So whenever the user connects to a previously connected network all these settings are automatically loaded. Thus making networking much more user friendly. Please suggest me how should I go about the project. Should I straight away make a proposal and send it across or do something else prior to that. Any suggestion or advice will help a lot. :) Thanking you. Best regards, Siddharth Mohan Misra. -- Regards, Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera(bckurera) Fedora Ambassador - APAC region Event Liaison - Design Team Email: bckurera(a)fedoraproject.org | IRC: bckurera

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Bringing the cloud to the Fedora desktop - Proposal
by Samridh 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

Hi All! I am Samridh , a college senior from Bangalore, India. I am planning on participating in GSoC '12 and have written a proposal for the project "Bringing the Cloud to the Fedora desktop"[1]. I have been in touch with the mentor, Mo Morsi for the past month and the proposal has been submitted after a review by him. My proposal can be found on the Fedora project wiki [2] and the Google-melange site [3]. Please feel free to give me any feedback regarding the proposal either in the form of comments or as a reply to this thread. [1] - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2012#Bringing_the_Cl… [2] - https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=GSOC_2012/Student_Application_S… [3] - http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2012/samridh9… Thanks in advance! - Samridh

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Proposal of Fedora nfs/fscache writeback cache idea
by Dong Zhu 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

Hi, My name is Dong Zhu from Dalian,China.I am a intern working in Redhat.I am interested in this idea http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2012#Implement_nfs.2F… The following information is my Proposal of this idea,Could help reviewing it ? Any comments are appreciated. ------------------ 8< --------------------- Application for Google Summer of Code 2012: Dong Zhu Contact Information Email Address: bluezhudong(a)gmail.com Telephone: 13840848540 Blog URL: http://bluezd.info Freenode IRC Nick: bluezd Why do you want to work with the Fedora Project? First: I am a fedora user,I use the fedora 15 as my Desktop os now. Second: The Fedora Project is a worldwide community,I am eager to participate it and make contribute for it. Third: I have great interesting in opensource,especially Fedora Project. Do you have any past involvement with the Fedora project or another open source project as a contributor? I am intern working in Redhat as a kernel-qe for almost one year,I test/report many bugs and write a large number of automatic testcases on RHEL.On the other hand I also read the kernel source code,then write some related patch to test the kernel. Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations? No Will you continue contributing/ supporting the Fedora project after the GSoC 2012 program, if yes, which team(s), you are interested with? Yes,Of course.I am crazy interested in Linux kernel,filesystem,Power-Management,Timer,Interrupt,I am looking forward to submit patch to the fedora-devel. I think I can contribute to fedora project according to my knowledge. Why should we choose you over other applicants? I have knowledge of Linux and the linux kernel.I am familiar with Filesystem,USB driver,Power-Management,Timer,Interrupt,Mem. I have experience analyzing and debugging Linux kernel source code,I can write some related kernel module by myself. I experience working in OpenSource. Proposal Description Synopsis: I will implement the writeback mechanism for nfs during the summer,I will spend 8 hours a day to work for my project at least. Biograph: I am a student from DaLian,China(timezone:GMT+8),23 years old,I am crazy about the OpenSource especially the Linux kernel. Project: NFS only supports write through cache based on fscache/cachefiles,the goal is adding a new feature that implement a writeback mechanism for nfs. Profit for writeback mechanism Add a new feature of the fscache,Meet the needs of different people,can satisfy the requrements from different people,and the customer will benefit from it. Experience: I am good at C/shell Programming and familiar with the Linux kernel/nfs. I worked for redhat for almost one year and write many testcases(C && shell),I have experience working for OpenSource. I am familiar with extX filesystems and know the implementation of it by reading the source code.So I am very familiar with the mechanism of cache (indoe cache,dentry cache,address_space).I also have the experiecnce of developering the kernel module. Implementation: 1.First I think I need to read the fscache source code and familiar with the fscache APIs,such as fscache_read_or_alloc_page,To figure out the implementation of the nfs make use of the FS-cache facilities. 2.Then investigate nfs fscache and cachefiles implementation and a knowledge of write through. 3.At last modify the fscache and cachefiles modules to add some necessary APIs to implement the write back without breaking the NFS specific close-to-open semantics. Roadmap: 1. Publish my goals to the community and try to get some feedback and suggestions on my plans. Then I will get familiar with nfs->fscachethe->cachefiles that I require for my work. (maybe until early June) 2. Discuss with the community and the mentor about the write back and implement it.(until July) 3. Implement the writeback mechanism. (Before August) 4. Finish developing and re-compile the related of nfs kernel module (nfs,fscache,cacahefiles),test it and check whether it works well. Mentor : Tao Peng -- Best Regards, Dong Zhu ------------------ http://bluezd.info ------------------

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Proposal of Fedora overall GUI Service Configuration tool
by Bradley Clemetson 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

I do apologize if I am putting this in too late or in the incorrect mailing list. ---- Application for Google Summer of Code 2012: Bradley Clemetson Contact Information Email Address: brad.clemetson(a)gmail.com Telephone: 1-509-855-4245 Blog URL: http://codeprogrammers.net/bradblog/ Freenode IRC Nick: brad_c6 Why do you want to work with the Fedora Project? I am a long time Fedora/RHEL user since the days of Red Hat Linux 8 and have used it since. Be it as a web/file/authentication server and wish to allow for a even bigger adoption of the OS, by making the learning curve lower for Windows server administrators easier. Do you have any past involvement with the Fedora project or another open source project as a contributor? I contributed to the residualVM (https://github.com/residualvm/residualvm) project but way of testing/file bug reports, and am hoping to use the Google Summer of Code to get more involved with the open source community. Did you participate with the past GSoC programs, if so which years, which organizations? No. Will you continue contributing/supporting the Fedora Project after GSoC 2012 program, if yes, which team(s) are you interested with? Yes, I would be involved with the SystemConfig team in order to continue creating and expanding these tools for more Fedora adoption. Why should we choose you over other applicants? I am already a heavy user of Fedora and who many different services be it basic (Apache,Bind, DHCP, Samba, ect) and other that are more advanced to configure (Kerberos, FreeIPA, ect); along with using these services in production/commercial settings knowing how IT works and possible ways of improving it. Proposal Description Synopsis: To create a GUI system configuration tool that is a all-in-one utility for a user/system-administrator to configure multiple (if not all) the services that are currently installed on a specific Fedora installation. Biograph: I am a student at Gonzaga University in Spokane Washington US. I am 21 years old and have been using Linux since the age of 12 and have used it ever since then. In my hometown of Moses Lake WA, created/repaired/converted many networks over to Linux and have been a Linux advocate in my community. Project: Make a all-in-one model service GUI configuration utility that allows a user/system-administrator to configure services and policies on a Fedora/Linux installation(s), along with the ability to export/import configurations to other installations. While also allowing for service developers to make their own modules in a simple language (XML/Yaml/HTML/ect) to create their own configuration panel for their service that integrates into the overall utility cleanly. Profit for making a all in one GUI Config Util Creates a single point in which all services can be configured so the user/administrator can spend less time looking for different configuration files/utilities and more time setting specific properties need for their service configuration. This utility would also help those who are not used to working with different service configuration files directly and would allow for easier Fedora/Linux adoption. Experience: I know C/C++/C#/Obj-C/Web Languages and in the process of learning GTK+ toolkit extensively, along with a understanding of how configure many services correctly. I am currently working on this project for a software engineering class and would like to continue to develop it through the GSoC. Implementation: 1.Continue to read and understand the ways in which SystemConfig/Gadmin tools have been written and see if what I have implemented so far is in the correct style/methodology that will work best the stability of the application. 2.Design a system that allows for the application to be very dynamic to allow module developers to not feel limited or overwhelmed when making their service configurable through the main GUI application. 3.Implement using GTK+ and other graphical libraries to create the most compatible GUI application as to reach as many flavor/distros of Linux as possible. 4.Create a extensive documentation guide for developers to make the modules without having to rely on old forum posts or outside resources. Roadmap 1.Publish the project idea and get as much feedback as possible on what the community thinks would be the best suit their needs, along with bringing those ideas/suggestions into the current version I am developing now. (eg. Layout Style, Module Language, ect), as I continue to get more knowledge of GTK+ and it's associated libraries.(until late May) 2.Discuss with mentor what the best practices are to make the application as compatible and user friendly as possible and begin to implement (until mid July) 3.Finish all feature implementation and work on making the application as compatible and stable as possible eg. feature freeze. (til early August) 4.Make packages (RPM,DEB,PKG) and write documentation for the installation and use of the application for both users and developers. Mentor - none Thank You Bradley Clemetson

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Re: Discuss on feature list of Dorrie
by shreyankg＠gmail.com 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

On Thursday, March 29, 2012, Ratnadeep Debnath wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Sayan Chowdhury > <sayanchowdhury(a)fedoraproject.org <javascript:;>> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > As I was writing out my proposal, I wanted to discuss what features > could be > > implemented in dorrie so that I can include it in my proposal. > It's nice to hear that :) > > > Here are some > > which I thought of including > > 1. Add support for formats like download Install Media (DVD ISOs). > Also, other formats can be supported like images for virtual machine, > hdd images. > > > 2. Create a test environment for Dorrie. > I hope this will be completed soon. > > > 3. Create a User profile(stores his personal builds), User Dashboard > (which > > shows the his personal builds and the builds can be downloaded by other > > users). > User features can be handled by django-userena and permissions by > django-authority. Also, the prospect of having social auth sounds > cool. Yes, I agree, builds should be reusable. > FAS integration is a useful feature to have. > > 4. Add feature to download the various kinds of spins or personally add > some > > packages to the spins. > > 5. Add feature to customize settings like( Network, Firewall, Users and > > groups, time-zone, logo and background etc). > > @shrink, our target should be to get a stable usable release of Dorrie > this summer. For this we need the core features (better build > workflow), user features and community features. > > Other than that Dorrie should support all version of Fedora being supported at any given point of time. I think you are good to go ahead and write a proposal. -- Peace and Love, Shreyank Gupta Blog: http://allsortsofshrink.blogspot.com

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Re: having blogs...
by Karsten Wade 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Students usually join their blog to the project Planet, e.g. planet.fedoraproject.org. This is part of the transparency of open source. A user page won't work the same way. I recommend you sign-up at wordpress.com if you can, it's no cost and very easy. - Karsten Muditha Dissanayaka <mudithagayan88(a)gmail.com> wrote: do we really need a blog to show the progress of our GSOC projects or can we use the fedora user page instead of it?

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having blogs...
by Muditha Dissanayaka 28 Mar '12

28 Mar '12

do we really need a blog to show the progress of our GSOC projects or can we use the fedora user page instead of it?

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Standard ML in Fedora and in GSoC
by Gergely Buday 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

Dear All, Buddhike Kurera suggested me to write my idea and send it to this mailing list. I am a functional programming advocate and would like to see Standard ML projects in Fedora. Both a better infrastructure for the language and actual projects that are implemented in SML. For a short introduction why SML would be useful, check my blog entry: http://www.buday-rd.com/on-standard-ml I would add the following: as far as I know, daemons are written in Python nowadays in Fedora, with a possible rewriting in C if speed and memory footprint is critical. SML could do both, as the sml/nj and the polyml compiler has an interactive loop like Python for creative programming, but the mlton whole-program optimizing compiler generates executables with speed comparable to C object files. It has a mathematical definition so it is easier to argument about a program than in Python or C. The first step could be proper packaging for various architectures and platforms, and cross-compilation for these. mlton, polyml and mosml has packaging but I did not find packaging for sml/nj. The next step could be choosing a daemon task to write from scratch or an existing one to rewrite. I would appreciate your comments and questions on this. - Gergely

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Idea page - soft freeze, but still open for wonderful ideas
by Buddhike Kurera 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Dear Mentors, Contributors, The idea page is soft-freeze since the start of the student application period. However if you have a wonderful idea, we dont want to loose it. Therefore still there is the chance to add your idea to the idea page. But please be kind enough to post your idea to the summer-coding mailing list as well. This additional step will help interest parties to be keep in touch. However the page is open for ideas till 1st April only. Thereafter no idea will be entertained for GSOC 2012. This ensures every student get a reasonable time to get familiar with the new idea and present a application. Thanks for your support and interest. Will deliver a quality experience in this summer. Happy Summer Coding !! -- Regards, Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera(bckurera) Fedora Ambassador - APAC region Event Liaison - Design Team Email: bckurera(a)fedoraproject.org | IRC: bckurera

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GSoC : Students application period started
by Buddhike Kurera 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

Dear Students, The students application period will be open[1] from today, 26th March 1900 UTC. Interested students can start submitting their applications (proposals) to the Fedora project and google-melange. Please make sure you complete following on or before the deadline, 06th April, 1900 UTC. Do not wait till the last minute, no late proposals will be entertained by gsoc program admins or Fedora project. Complete how-to guide on submitting proposals[2] to the Fedora project can be found at wiki [3] and each and every proposal should be submitted via the google-melange.com as well. (get registered with the program if you dont) You should create your proposal on the wiki[4] and send the link to the summer-coding mailing list. One student can submit more than one proposal[5] but bare mind the quality matters than the quantity. A template of the application[6] should be followed. Every question should be answered on the application template. Feel free to add anything important and related except the questions noted on the application template. But make sure all the questions on the application template will be answered. If anything is not clear please do contact me or admins or your mentor. Further please keep in touch with the summer-coding mailing list and GSOC 2012 wiki page[7], important notifications/ notices will be forwarded/ displayed. Happy Summer Coding !!! [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc20… [2] http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCStudentGuide/ch008_writing-a-proposal/ [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSOC_Guide_students [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSOC_Guide_students#Create_your_proposal [5] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc20… [6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSOC_2012/Student_Application_Template [7] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSOC_2012 -- Regards, Buddhike Chandradeepa Kurera(bckurera) Fedora Ambassador - APAC region Event Liaison - Design Team Email: bckurera(a)fedoraproject.org | IRC: bckurera

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