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General information

This wiki page will be the central point for information about the Google Summer of Code 2009 at Debian. Feel free to add missing sections to it.

You can find information about the previous years on SummerOfCode2006, SummerOfCode2007 and SummerOfCode2008.

Introduction

The Google Summer of Code is a program where Google pays students stipends to work over the summer on free software projects such as Debian. Each student works with one or more mentors from the community to complete a software project.

The Google Summer of Code has started again this year. As we were selected as a mentoring organisation, 2009 will be the fourth participation of Debian in the program and we want to again improve on our participation to make the experience even more exciting and fulfilling this year for the students, the mentors and the whole Debian community.

Timeline

Here are the next steps:

March 23: ~12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC

Student application period opens.

April 3: 12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC

Student application deadline.

Interim Period:

Mentoring organizations review and rank student proposals; where necessary, mentoring organizations may request further proposal detail from the student applicant.

April 15: 00:00 PDT / 07:00 UTC

All mentors must be signed up and all student proposals matched with a mentor; IRC meeting to resolve any outstanding duplicate accepted students (timing TBD).

April 20: ~12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC

Accepted student proposals announced on the Google Summer of Code 2009 site.

The full timeline is available here.

Participating / Applying

I am a student

You should have applied by April 3rd, 19:00 UTC on the Google Summer of Code application.

Familiarize yourself with the communication tools of Debian:

  • IRC on general or team development channels

  • the general and particular Mailing-lists of various teams

  • this wiki

Join the communication channels of the teams or persons involved with the subject you would like to work on and discuss it. Don't be afraid to suggest seemingly crazy or vague ideas, we'll help you and give you suggestions. If you're lost (or even not!), drop in the communication channels of the Summer of Code team mentioned below. Remember that early preparation is a guarantee that your proposal will be better!

There is some interesting introductory documentation on this wiki about what Debian is and what Debian is for a developer. A lot of information about being a Summer of Code student can be found on the Advice for students page.

We also have a template that we would recommend students to use for their application: application template

I am a Debian developer

Your help is much needed from general organization to individual mentoring. Come see us on IRC or on the mailing-list mentioned below.

This year, we want to improve the communication between Summer of Code projects and the whole Debian community during the whole Summer of Code program, from student/project selection to final code integration into production through testing and feedback.

A lot of information can be found on the Advice for mentors page. A practical mentoring guide can be found here.

Contacting us : Mailing-list, IRC, Twitter and identi.ca

http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/soc-coordination

We're also on IRC: #debian-soc in the OFTC network (irc.debian.org). Just drop in and ask your questions. Of course you can also ask in other Debian IRC channels.

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DebianGSoC or on identi.ca: http://identi.ca/debiangsoc

The Google's Summer of Code general IRC channel is #gsoc in Freenode.

Projects

Map of Debian projects

Here will be a map of areas in Debian where proposals are requested/accepted.

A good place to start looking for teams and areas is : http://debian.org/intro/organization

Project proposals

Here will be a list of proposals, sorted according to the map above.

Packaging

  • Large dataset manager: download and update local copies of public datasets, and integrate them in Debian with the tools we packaged.

  • Mergemaster: perform 3-way merge of config files on upgrades by keeping a copy of original config files. (Mentor to be found)

  • Aptitude packages query UI and language: improve the GTK+ search UI and language for complex packages queries

  • Aptitude search ranking and presentation: improve the presentation of search results with substring highlighting, relevancy ranking...

  • Aptitude history tracking: extend and build on the packages actions history tracking features of Aptitude

  • Aptitude mixed-install/apt-pinning integration: high-level support of mixed-installs (eg. testing/unstable) and apt-pinning in Aptitude

  • Improve non-networked package management: Develop a framework for package management on non-networked computers (Mentor to be found)

  • Home directory cleaner: Application to assist users to remove left-over configuration and data files in their home directories

  • Distribution-independent update-manager: make update-manager distribution-independent, creating a package with core-functionality that can be extended with distribution-specific code

  • ?Debian control files - Parsing and Manipulation Library: a library to parse and manipulate Debian control files (debian/control, copyright, changelog in particular). Capable of parsing in either quirks or strict mode; manipulation of control data; exporting back to the appropriate files. Includes creation of Perl-Qt4 bindings and a Debconf interface using Qt4. (See debconf-Qt4 frontend, below)

Debian Installer

Hardware support

Blends

Bug tracking

  • Debbugs Read/Write Soap Interface: overhaul the existing read-only SOAP Debbugs interface with submission and manipulation capabilities (Mentor to be found)

  • Debbugs Web UI: Modern web interface for submitting and manipulating bugs.debian.org's bugs

  • Mylyn plugin for debbugs: Plugin for Mylyn to support debbugs, allowing the management of Debian bug reports from the inside of Eclipse.

Building infrastructure

Archive

  • Debtags Archive Integration: Integrate Debtags into the Debian Infrastructure and the required tools to replace the current archive sections. (Mentor to be found)

Packages Website (packages.debian.org)

Regular Website (www.debian.org)

  • Website VCS Transition: Migrate www.d.o from the current CVS system to a more modern and better accepted version control system, possibly git?

KDE

* Your proposal here ?ProposalTemplate: Use this proposal as a sample.

Shortlist

These projects have been chosen by Debian as the best, and that we would like to see funded:

Aptitude Package Management History Tracking

Student: Cristian Mauricio Porras Duarte, Mentor: Daniel Burrows

Aptitude currently does not track actions that the user has performed beyond a single session of the program. One of the most frequent requests from users is to find out when they made a change to a package, or why a package was changed; we want to store this information and expose it in the UI in convenient locations. As a side effect, this might also provide some ability to revert past changes.

Automatic Debug Packages Creation and Handling

Student: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort, Mentor: Josselin Mouette

This proposal aims at providing debug binary packages for the packages in the Debian archive in an automatic manner, moving them away from the official Debian archive to an special one. This has the benefits of providing thousands of debug packages without any work needed from the developers, for all the architectures, without bloating the archive.

Control Files Parsing/Editing Library/Qt4-Debconf Qt4-Perl bindings

Student: Jonathan Yu, Mentor: Dominique Dumont

This project proposes a common library for parsing and manipulating Debian Control files, including control, copyright and changelog. Main ideas include validating and parsing of these files, with both Strict and Quirks modes for the parser. The second idea is a new frontend for Debconf using Qt4 (for which Perl bindings will be written).

Debbugs Web UI: Amancay Strikes Back

Student: Diego Escalante Urrelo, Mentor: Margarita Manterola

The Amancay project aims to be a new read/write web frontend to Debian's BTS; allowing DDs and contributors to easily interact with bugs via an intuitive yet powerful interface, enabling new workflows and creating new contribution opportunities like triaging while upholding reporting quality.

Debian Autobuilding Infrastructure Rewrite

Student: Philipp Kern, Mentor: Luk Claes

Rewrite the software that currently runs the Debian autobuilding infrastructure in a way that makes it more maintainable and robust. It will use Python as its programming language and PostgreSQL for the database backend. By harmonizing buildds, many build failures can be prevented and wasteful workload on buildd volunteers can be reduced.

Debian-Installer Support for GNU/kFreeBSD

Student: Luca Favatella, Mentor: Aurelien Jarno

GNU/kFreeBSD is currently using a hacked version of the FreeBSD installer combined with crosshurd as its own installer. While this works more or less correctly for standard installations (read: the exact same installation as in the documentation), it does not allow any changes in the installation process except the hard disk partitioning. This project is about porting debian-installer on GNU/kFreeBSD, and to a bigger extent, make debian-installer less Linux dependant.

KDE/Qt4 Adept 3.0 Package Manager

Student: Mateusz Marek, Mentor: Sune Vuorela

Finish Adept 3.0, a fully integrated package manager for Qt4/KDE4. Adept is currently the only viable path to a Debian native package manager on KDE that would support modern features such as tags, indexed search or good conflict resolving. With Aptitude-gtk still in development and only available for GTK+ and (K)PackageKit having fundamental problems, Debian needs this project to stay in control of its package management on KDE after much neglect in the recent years.

MIPS 3 N32 ABI Port

Student: Sha Liu, Mentor: Anthony Fok

This project first focuses on creating a new MIPS 3 N32 ABI port "-march=mips3" for Debian. The "mips3" arch will highly improve performance compared with current "mips" arch. The second goal is to make such a “mipsn3” arch fully optimized for the Loongson 2F CPU which gains more and more popularity in subnotebooks/netbooks in many countries.

MTD Embedded Onboard flash Partitioning and Installation

Student: Per Andersson, Mentor: Wookey

Many embedded devices have MTD onboard flash as persistent storage like the Kurobox Pro NAS, the Neo Freerunner, the Sheeva Plug or the OLPC. With MTD flash being so popular and with increases in capacity, support for MTD partition/installation would make Debian even more interesting to a wide range of of devices, making it one step closer to being universal.

On-demand Cloud Computing with Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus Integration

Student: David Wendt Jr, Mentor: Steffen Moeller

In many academic fields, as well as commercial industries, people use clusters to distribute tasks among multiple machines. Many times this is done by packaging a whole operating system disk image, uploading it onto the cluster, and having the cluster run it in a VM. This project intends to make it easier for Debian to distribute prepared disk images templates like they distribute CD images now, for the users to recreate or customise these templates with Debian packages and for administrators to host such clusters with Debian.

Port back update-manager to Debian and all Derivatives

Student: Stephan Peijnik, Mentor: Michael Vogt

The project would involve taking the distribution-(Ubuntu-)specific update-manager code, analyzing it, and creating a package with just its core functionality, decoupling the distribution-specific parts and thus making the core code extensible by distribution-specific add-ons. This in turn would remove the need of porting update-manager to Debian with every upstream release. An additional optional goal would be replacing the synaptics-backend with a python-apt based one.

Crew

Please add yourself to the relevant tables, preserving alphabetical order of the last names. To get a 'linkid', register on the GSoC web application.

Administrators

Name

linkid

Comment

SteveMcIntyre

einvalsledge

primary admin for Google

ObeyArthurLiu

arthurliu

backup admin for Google

RudyGodoy

rudygodoy

NeilMcGovern

neilm

MichaelSchultheiss

schultmc

Mentors

Name

linkid

Comment

?DanielBaumann

danielbaumann

Debian Live

OlivierBerger

olberger

Eclipse/Mylyn client for debbugs

BastianBlank

waldi

?MarcBrockschmidt

marcbrockschmidt

wanna-build/buildd stuff

?DanielBurrows

dburrows

apt, dpkg and aptitude related projects

OndrejCertik

certik

MichalCihar

nijel

LukClaes

luk

buildd infrastructure, release related

DirkEddelbuettel

edd

cran2deb (GSoc2008) followup, RQuantLib, ...

?TollefFogHeen

tfheen

Multiarch, Debian installer

AnthonyFok

foka

Debian N32 Loongson2F-optimized build

?ZhangLe

r0bertz

Debian N32 Loongson2F-optimized build

GerfriedFuchs

rhonda

Website related

EricHammond

esh

Amazon EC2

AurelienJarno

aurel32

Debian-Installer support for GNU/kFreeBSD

?FrankLichtenheld

djpig

packages.debian.org and related

FrancescoLovergine

frankie

AigarsMahinovs

aigarius

?MargaritaManterola

marga

Debbugs Web UI

?JossMouette

joss

Debugging packages support

CharlesPlessy

plessy

DebianMed, large data packages

ErichSchubert

erich

?DebTags

ManojSrivastava

srivasta

co-mentor, security

PavelVinogradov

blaze

bug tracking, building infrastructure

?MichaelVogt

mvo

apt, python-apt, dpkg, synaptic

SamuelThibault

sthibaul

AndreasTille

andreas_tille

Debian Blends

?BastianVenthur

bventhur

Debbugs SOAP interface

WouterVerhelst

wouter

GunnarWolf

gwolf

Debbugs Web UI, Wanna-build to PostgreSQL

StefanoZacchiroli

zack

?Wookey

wookey

Embedded, MTD-di

Meta

Promotion

Organize the promotion of the Google Summer of Code 2009 at Debian here.

A flyer has been made, feel free to make additional translations:

Updated with the submission deadline!

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This flyer can be put on university bulletin boards, etc.