Re: [libvirt] Looking for project ideas and mentors for Google Summer of Code 2014

Christian Benvenuti (benve)
2014-03-07T00:22:46Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org]
> On Behalf Of Stefan Hajnoczi
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 7:58 AM
> To: Cedric Bosdonnat
> Cc: Jan Kiszka; qemu-devel; kvm; libvir-list@redhat.com; Kevin Wolf; Peter
> Maydell; Peter Crosthwaite; Max Reitz; Anthony Liguori; Paolo Bonzini;
> Andreas Färber; Richard Henderson
> Subject: Re: [libvirt] Looking for project ideas and mentors for Google
> Summer of Code 2014
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 03:22:04PM +0100, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 09:16 +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > > > I need to submit our organization application (including our
> > > > project
> > > > ideas) on Friday.
> > >
> > > Hope it's not too late: just added the VT-d emulation proposal.
> >
> > It's not too late. Ideas page must be ready when students will
> > discover the list of accepted organizations on Monday 24th.
> >
> > I'm not GSoc admin here, but on LibreOffice ;)
>
> The project ideas list is linked from the organization application form and
> Google folks have mentioned messy/incomplete project ideas lists when
> giving feedback to orgs that were not accepted.
>
> This is why it's worth having the project ideas list ready.
>
> But Cedric is right that we can still add project ideas later. I set the hard
> deadline at March 10th when students begin applying.
>
> Stefan

There are only a few days left before the hard deadline (March 10th) but
I wanted to mention one possible project which I think is worth considering:

Integration of Libvirt and CRIU to allow live-migration
(and snapshots?) for containers

In [1] you can find more details about the reasons why this feature
would make sense together with a first analysis by Daniel about
what to consider for the design.

I am not applying as a student and I am not offering myself as a mentor (I
do not qualify as a mentor), I Just wanted to point out a possible interesting
(and challenging) project.
I am afraid it would be too challenging for a 12 weeks projects, but I'll let you
decide that.
Having said that, I would be happy to help with the testing and reviews if
needed.

/Chris

[1] http://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2013-November/msg00055.html