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=== Porting ===
 * Port debian-installer to hurd-i386

This is a draft, and need a lot of work before it leave the draft state.

This wiki page is created to make it easier to plan and coordinate Debian's involvement in the [http://code.google.com/soc/ Google Summer of Code 2006].

[http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2006/04/summer-of-code-2006.html Request for mentoring organizations] has gone out, and Debian need to move quickly to make it before the May 1st deadline. Mentoring organisations should read the [http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html mentor FAQ].

TODO

  • Formulate projects
  • Organise mentors
  • Bring this content once it's not a draft anymore into www.debian.org?

Contact info

To be decided. Currently the Admin is Baruch Even, Anthony Towns will be an admin as well once he signs up, he can then distribute admin rights as needed.

Information on how to register to be a mentor was posted to debian-private, contact baruch (baruch@debian.org) if you need more info. Please note that you should not register as a mentor if you intend to participate as a student.

Possible Projects (in () possible mentors)

(also see [http://www.debian.org/devel/todo/ the general TODO list] and the EtchTODOList)

General

  • Improve/unify the QA websites: packages.qa.d.o, qa.d.o/developer, dehs, etc

  • Create a better environment for regression/unit tests (tbm)
  • Improve the system to handle WNPP: including expiry of ITPs, checking that orphaned packages have correct maintainer fields, etc. (DavidMorenoGarza)

  • Create a collaborative repository of meta-informations about sources packages (including upstream URL, URL of upstream VCS, URL of upstream BTS, debian/watch file, etc.) (RaphaelHertzog)

  • Help [http://dehs.alioth.debian.org Dehs project] to accept watch submitting and maintaining in an external framework instead of the single deb packages. Improve the Dehs postgres Db structure to optimizing query speed. Create rss feed with useful information from Dehs data. Collaborate with devscript maintainer to specify in a standar way the upstream news/changelog file in watch file and write with devscript package maintainer an official policy about watch file. Optimize, clean and standardize source code. (Stefano Fabri)

  • Add improvements to the BTS LDAP gateway like last-change-dates, last-mail, full-content, etc. (DavidMorenoGarza)

  • A program to sanity-check Debian CD and DVD images, like lintian/linda do for packages. (SteveMcIntyre)

  • BTS interface in kmail: on display of a bts related mail (headers!), add buttons like 'view this bug', 'close/reopen this bug' (would ask for version first), 'edit bug tags', 'set severity', 'retitle', ... to the toolbar (cmot, just a funky idea...)
  • Web frontend for QA applications (linda, lintian, piuparts) and other packaging utilities (like pbuilder) Some work has been done in that topic, and it could be useful for CollaborativeMaintenance too

  • Improve Britney; britney is the name of the scripts used to update Debian's testing distribution: it automates some of the hard problems of Debian release management. See [http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/blog/debian/britney AJ's blog] and the [http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/ general info about Testing] (aba)

  • Create a "Migration Tracking System" which can be used to track the various migrations that are happening. It should have a web interface as well as a mail interface. It should transparently make use of debbug's usertags to keep track of the bugs related to a specific transition. (RaphaelHertzog)

Package management

Individual packages

  • Add IPv6 support to vserver (aba)

  • Improve support of pinning in apt ["real" dependency resolver, better docs, graphical interface (?), allow matching in Packages, etc] (aba)

  • Make reportbug enhancements: graphical and/or webbased, so its easier for user to report

  • Improve wpasupplicant: Split out the roaming functionality from wpasupplicant and associate based on what is known to the system from /etc/network/interfaces. (?KyleMcMartin)

  • Fix and enhance apt-listbugs: There are quite a few seemingly simple bugs and wishes in the BTS, but it's seen no updates for 10 months. A few small changes would make it much more useful. (RaphaelHertzog: probably too limited in scope to be a good project).

New applications

Security

  • Help integrate a coherent SELinux security policy into Etch, see ["SELinuxStatus"]
  • Create various variants of the reference policy for specific audiences (server, single user, desktop)
  • Create policy modules for specific packages, or contribute additions back to reference policy
  • SELinux: Automatically select policy modules for installed Debian packages (with dependency handling!), user UI for customizing this list (ErichSchubert)

  • Develop an [http://oval.mitre.org OVAL] agent for Debian. Define a mechanism to automaticaly generate OVAL queries from DSAs so that admins can set a central monitoring network (through an OVAL server and distribute OVAL agents) that can determine which systems need security updates. Optionally rate the urgency of the update using [http://www.first.org/cvss/ CVSS] (by CVE-linking with the [http://nvd.nist.gov/ National Vulnerability Database]) (JavierFernandezSanguino)

  • Develop a lintian-like system (i.e. both local tools and a lintian.debian.org service) to do automatic security review of packages source code and, through a metric, attempt to spot packages with possible security vulnerabilities that need to be reviewed before being released with the testing/stable release (JavierFernandezSanguino)

Infrastructure

Porting

  • Port debian-installer to hurd-i386

Misc/unsorted

Mentors for other projects

Check the mails in -private on how to register to be a mentor, to speed things up also email baruch at baruch@debian.org to notify me of your request so I can accept it.

  • AigarsMahinovs - I am a DD and was a participant in SOC 2005, I can mentor students willing to do Debian projects

  • aba (Andi Barth) - projects related to release management, QA, project management
  • Martin Michlmayr (tbm) - projects related to QA, release and project management; possibly also projects related to embedded systems.
  • DirkEddelbuettel - would be glad to mentor and help on R / CRAN related integration

  • StefanoZacchiroli - automated handling of OCaml dependencies (dh_ocaml)

  • DavidMorenoGarza - willing to work on the projects I'm offering to mentor even if they don't get into SOC; if so, please contact me.

  • SergioTalensOliag - will be happy to mentor anyone interested in working on the ["CDDT"].

  • JavierFernandezSanguino - willing to mentor security enhancement or security audit related projects.