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 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
- Announce our interest to Google and the rest of the world
- Formulate projects
- Organise mentors
Contact info
To be decided
Possible Projects (in () possible mentors)
(also see [http://www.us.debian.org/devel/todo/ the general TODO list])
?DebTags: central database rewrite, review functionality, tag adoption and such
reportbug enhancements: graphical and/or webbased, so its easier for user to report
A Python/GTK/QT app to manage Debian BTS: would queue actions and then send an e-mail to the BTS to commit changes, make it easier to browse bugs, cross-reference, tag/update/close, etc
Britney improvements (aba)
Adding IPv6 vserver support (aba)
Nicer support of pinning in apt [better docs, graphical interface (?), allow matching in Packages] (aba)
Unify apt, dpkg, etc (aba)
Improvements/unification in QA websites: packages.qa.d.o, qa.d.o/developer, dehs, etc
Real perl shlibs (aba)
Improve shlibs: to caclulate the used shlibs, rather than the theorically required ones (aba)
A user-friendly security-update notifier/installer
Improved debian/watch system: to check upstream versions, possibly in a central db
Improved system to handle WNPP: including expiry of ITPs, checking that orphaned packages have correct maintainer fields, etc. (DavidMorenoGarza, willing to work on this even if it gets into SoC or not)
Improve the boot system: speed up and make it dependency based. See discussions on [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/initscripts-ng-devel/ the initscripts-ng list] and [http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts LSB init script page]. (pere)
Support for subversion in alioth
apt-listbugs enhancements/fixes: 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.
(AigarsMahinovs - I am a DD and was a participant in SOC 2005, I can mentor students willing to do Debian projects)