Re: Google's Summer of Code?

["Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@cateee.net>]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 23:05:34 +0300
> "Alexey Zaytsev" <alexey.zaytsev@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Maybe the Kernelnewbies should stand up as the mentoring organisation?
> 
> Kernelnewbies is just a community of people, without much organization.
> 
> However, I would be happy to coordinate a group of mentors for Linux
> kernel Summer of Code as well as be a mentor for the kernel subsystems
> that I know something about.
> 
> If we can find mentors to cover most of the kernel (volunteers? anyone?),
> we can do a good enough job of mentoring the students that we could sign
> up for Summer of Code.
> 
> Summer of Code could also be a good way to get some kernel related work
> done, for example LTP tests for kernel subsystems that do not have a
> test suite yet.  Maybe not the most interesting work, but it can be very
> educational as well as useful - that and $5000 may be enough to motivate
> students to get some of this "boring work" done :)

I propose and I could mentor two projects about automagical kernel
configuration:

- add support to menuconfig, to show what you should enable (not
really an automagical configuration, but more an helper which
know better(?) your hardware).
- new ideas about hardware/protocol detection and detection heuristics.

I've already done some parts: generating an hardware->kernel driver
database ( http://cateee.net/lkddb/ ), and a working prototype of
autoconfiguration ( http://testing.cateee.net/autokernconf/ ).

I really want to have new ideas and other developers. I think the
idea are appealing to students, and it doesn't requires a lot of
knowledge of kernel internal.

ciao
	cate