Re: [question] GSoC Proposal 2026

[Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>]

Hi Saalim,

On 2026/2/22 05:42, Saalim Quadri wrote:
> Hi everyone, I am Saalim Quadri an undergrad student at Dayananda Sagar College of Engineering, pursuing Electronics and Communications.
> I wish to participate in the GSoC 2026 as a part of the EROFS filesystem.
> 
> I have been contributing to the Linux Kernel and have more than 10 accepted patches.
> I have also worked with Android Linux Ecosystem in the past years, and have worked on several subsystems, backports and fixes.
> 
> I started looking into https://erofs.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/roadmap.html, and I am interested in expanding erofs-utils to stabilize liberofs APIs.
> 
> In that sense, I would like to know if anyone in the community could provide with some suggestions for my proposal, and a positive impact.
> Any suggestion or hint is appreciated!

Sorry for late reply since I was in the vacation.

"expanding erofs-utils to stabilize liberofs APIs." is of course
part of TODOs, but I'm not sure if it's a gSOC project since:
  - It's not an independent feature, much like just rearranging
    code instead;

  - Currently we don't have enough mentors to trace too many
    formal gSOC projects.

The formal gSOC projects are still under discussion, but I do
hope we could have some improvements in:

  - Multi-threaded userspace decompression;

  - BSD kernel support.

But if you're interested in erofs development, contribution is
always welcome!

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

> 
> Sincerely,
> Saalim Quadri