Add GSoC project ideas to the wiki!

Add GSoC project ideas to the wiki!

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

This is a reminder that QEMU will apply for Google Summer of Code 2012 and we
need project ideas and mentors.  Libvirt and kvm.ko projects are also welcome!

http://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012

Please add yourself to the wiki now if you want to mentor a project
this summer.  I will file our application next week.

Thanks,
Stefan

[Qemu-devel] Add GSoC project ideas to the wiki!

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

This is a reminder that QEMU will apply for Google Summer of Code 2012 and we
need project ideas and mentors.  Libvirt and kvm.ko projects are also welcome!

http://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012

Please add yourself to the wiki now if you want to mentor a project
this summer.  I will file our application next week.

Thanks,
Stefan

Re: [libvirt] Add GSoC project ideas to the wiki!

[Michal Privoznik]

On 24.02.2012 10:19, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> This is a reminder that QEMU will apply for Google Summer of Code 2012 and we
> need project ideas and mentors.  Libvirt and kvm.ko projects are also welcome!
> 
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012
> 
> Please add yourself to the wiki now if you want to mentor a project
> this summer.  I will file our application next week.
> 
> Thanks,
> Stefan

Hi Stefan,

Thank you for the opportunity. I was personally thinking about something
libvirt-snmp related. Nowdays, it is difficult to add new elements to
MIB, as some parts of code were generated by mib2c. Any change to MIB
requires regeneration of such source files and thus leads to loss of all
previous changes. So one thing that is coming to my mind is drop this
dependency and use libsnmp directly. But I am not sure it is worth of GSoC.

Michal

Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] Add GSoC project ideas to the wiki!

[Michal Privoznik]

On 24.02.2012 10:19, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> This is a reminder that QEMU will apply for Google Summer of Code 2012 and we
> need project ideas and mentors.  Libvirt and kvm.ko projects are also welcome!
> 
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012
> 
> Please add yourself to the wiki now if you want to mentor a project
> this summer.  I will file our application next week.
> 
> Thanks,
> Stefan

Hi Stefan,

Thank you for the opportunity. I was personally thinking about something
libvirt-snmp related. Nowdays, it is difficult to add new elements to
MIB, as some parts of code were generated by mib2c. Any change to MIB
requires regeneration of such source files and thus leads to loss of all
previous changes. So one thing that is coming to my mind is drop this
dependency and use libsnmp directly. But I am not sure it is worth of GSoC.

Michal

Re: [libvirt] Add GSoC project ideas to the wiki!

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 24.02.2012 10:19, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Thank you for the opportunity. I was personally thinking about something
> libvirt-snmp related. Nowdays, it is difficult to add new elements to
> MIB, as some parts of code were generated by mib2c. Any change to MIB
> requires regeneration of such source files and thus leads to loss of all
> previous changes. So one thing that is coming to my mind is drop this
> dependency and use libsnmp directly. But I am not sure it is worth of GSoC.

If this project is self-contained and can be completed in 12 weeks by
a person without prior libvirt and SNMP experience, but fluent C
programming skills, then it sounds suitable.

Is there any creativity required or problems to solve that aren't
grunt work?  For example, if you just need to run mib2c and then
manually diff to produce the final C version, then this sounds like a
lot of manual work but little gain for the student.

Stefan

Re: [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] Add GSoC project ideas to the wiki!

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 24.02.2012 10:19, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Thank you for the opportunity. I was personally thinking about something
> libvirt-snmp related. Nowdays, it is difficult to add new elements to
> MIB, as some parts of code were generated by mib2c. Any change to MIB
> requires regeneration of such source files and thus leads to loss of all
> previous changes. So one thing that is coming to my mind is drop this
> dependency and use libsnmp directly. But I am not sure it is worth of GSoC.

If this project is self-contained and can be completed in 12 weeks by
a person without prior libvirt and SNMP experience, but fluent C
programming skills, then it sounds suitable.

Is there any creativity required or problems to solve that aren't
grunt work?  For example, if you just need to run mib2c and then
manually diff to produce the final C version, then this sounds like a
lot of manual work but little gain for the student.

Stefan

Re: [Qemu-devel] Add GSoC project ideas to the wiki!

[Kevin Wolf]

Am 24.02.2012 10:19, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
> This is a reminder that QEMU will apply for Google Summer of Code 2012 and we
> need project ideas and mentors.  Libvirt and kvm.ko projects are also welcome!
> 
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012
> 
> Please add yourself to the wiki now if you want to mentor a project
> this summer.  I will file our application next week.

Natalia, I saw that you copied a few items from last year's Wiki page to
the current one. But did you check that all of them are still valid? For
example, we do have EHCI and xHCI in the tree for quite a while now. I
don't think there's enough left for a GSoC project with these.

Kevin

Re: [Qemu-devel] Add GSoC project ideas to the wiki!

[Natalia Portillo]

Hi Kevin,

Sorry for the late answer, had hardware problems recently

On 12/03/2012, at 11:36, Kevin Wolf wrote:

> Am 24.02.2012 10:19, schrieb Stefan Hajnoczi:
>> This is a reminder that QEMU will apply for Google Summer of Code 2012 and we
>> need project ideas and mentors.  Libvirt and kvm.ko projects are also welcome!
>> 
>> http://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012
>> 
>> Please add yourself to the wiki now if you want to mentor a project
>> this summer.  I will file our application next week.
> 
> Natalia, I saw that you copied a few items from last year's Wiki page to
> the current one. But did you check that all of them are still valid? For
> example, we do have EHCI and xHCI in the tree for quite a while now. I
> don't think there's enough left for a GSoC project with these.

I posponed checking the status of EHCI and xHCI but had the hardware problems.

So if they're already on the tree then I will remove those from the wiki.

Regards,
Natalia Portillo