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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.
The current Google Summer of Code 2010 at Debian is covered at SummerOfCode2010.
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.
Google 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. |
Community Bonding Period |
Students get to know mentors, read documentation, get up to speed to begin working on their projects. |
May 23: |
Students begin coding for their GSoC projects; Google begins issuing initial student payments provided tax forms are on file and students are in good standing with their communities. |
July 6: ~12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC |
Mentors and students can begin submitting mid-term evaluations. |
July 13: 12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC |
Mid-term evaluations deadline; Google begins issuing mid-term student payments provided passing student survey is on file. |
Interim Period: |
Mentors give students a helping hand and guidance on their projects. |
August 10: |
Suggested 'pencils down' date. Take a week to scrub code, write tests, improve documentation, etc. |
August 17: ~12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC |
Firm 'pencils down' date. Mentors, students and organization administrators can begin submitting final evaluations to Google. |
August 24: 12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC |
Final evaluation deadline. Google begins issuing student and mentoring organization payments provided forms and evaluations are on file. |
August 25: 12 noon PDT / 19:00 UTC |
Final results of GSoC 2009 announced |
The full timeline is available here.
Selected Projects
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: Marc Brockschmidt
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.
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.
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).
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.
MIPS N32 ABI Port
Student: Sha Liu, Mentor: Anthony Fok
This project first focuses on creating a new MIPS N32 ABI port for Debian. Different from O32 and N64, N32 is an address model which has most 64-bit capabilities but using 32-bit data structures to save space and process time. A second focus will be given on making such a “mipsn32el” 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.
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.
Archive
Participating / Applying
Information about how to apply has been moved to Applying.
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
The results
Completed code uploaded to Google can be found there: http://code.google.com/p/google-summer-of-code-2009-debian/downloads/list
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
Selected Projects
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.
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.
Project proposals
Information about proposals has been moved to SummerOfCode2009/Applying.
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
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primary admin for Google |
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Mentors
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linkid |
Comment |
?DanielBaumann |
Debian Live |
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Eclipse/Mylyn client for debbugs |
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?MarcBrockschmidt |
wanna-build/buildd stuff |
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?DanielBurrows |
apt, dpkg and aptitude related projects |
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buildd infrastructure, release related |
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cran2deb (GSoc2008) followup, RQuantLib, ... |
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?TollefFogHeen |
Multiarch, Debian installer |
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Debian N32 Loongson2F-optimized build |
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?ZhangLe |
Debian N32 Loongson2F-optimized build |
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Website related |
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Amazon EC2 |
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Debian-Installer support for GNU/kFreeBSD |
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?FrankLichtenheld |
packages.debian.org and related |
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?MargaritaManterola |
Debbugs Web UI |
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?JossMouette |
Debugging packages support |
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DebianMed, large data packages |
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?DebTags |
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co-mentor, security |
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bug tracking, building infrastructure |
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?MichaelVogt |
apt, python-apt, dpkg, synaptic |
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Debian Blends |
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?BastianVenthur |
Debbugs SOAP interface |
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Debbugs Web UI, Wanna-build to PostgreSQL |
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?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.