Re: Call for GSoC and Outreachy project ideas for summer 2022

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 at 14:12, Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 02:01:52PM +0000, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> >On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 07:11, Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 11:47 PM Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Dear QEMU, KVM, and rust-vmm communities,
> >> > QEMU will apply for Google Summer of Code 2022
> >> > (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/) and has been accepted into
> >> > Outreachy May-August 2022 (https://www.outreachy.org/). You can now
> >> > submit internship project ideas for QEMU, KVM, and rust-vmm!
> >> >
> >> > If you have experience contributing to QEMU, KVM, or rust-vmm you can
> >> > be a mentor. It's a great way to give back and you get to work with
> >> > people who are just starting out in open source.
> >> >
> >> > Please reply to this email by February 21st with your project ideas.
> >> >
> >> > Good project ideas are suitable for remote work by a competent
> >> > programmer who is not yet familiar with the codebase. In
> >> > addition, they are:
> >> > - Well-defined - the scope is clear
> >> > - Self-contained - there are few dependencies
> >> > - Uncontroversial - they are acceptable to the community
> >> > - Incremental - they produce deliverables along the way
> >> >
> >> > Feel free to post ideas even if you are unable to mentor the project.
> >> > It doesn't hurt to share the idea!
> >>
> >> Implementing the VIRTIO_F_IN_ORDER feature for both Qemu and kernel
> >> (vhost/virtio drivers) would be an interesting idea.
> >>
> >> It satisfies all the points above since it's supported by virtio spec.
> >>
> >> (Unfortunately, I won't have time in the mentoring)
> >
> >Thanks for this idea. As a stretch goal we could add implementing the
> >packed virtqueue layout in Linux vhost, QEMU's libvhost-user, and/or
> >QEMU's virtio qtest code.
> >
> >Stefano: Thank you for volunteering to mentor the project. Please
> >write a project description (see template below) and I will add this
> >idea:
> >
>
> I wrote a description of the project below. Let me know if there is
> anything to change.

Thanks, I have added the idea:
https://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2022#VIRTIO_F_IN_ORDER_support_for_virtio_devices

Stefan