Debian Patch Porting System
Description of the project: In 2017, I kick started a small project to automatically port security patches in Debian. You can see the presentation here. Since then, the project is pretty much abandoned. Let try to put it back on its feet!
Confirmed Mentor: Luciano Bello (luciano@d.o)
How to contact the mentor: lbello@gmail.com, Hangouts.
Confirmed co-mentors:
Deliverables of the project: Improve the current situation of the project. Ideally, put it back online!
Desirable skills: Debian, Debian packaging, make (debian/rules is a Makefile), Python, webcrawling, some front-end (optional)
What the intern will learn: Python and automatically building. How the Debian Security team works and well as collaboration with other distros and projects.
Application tasks: write a web crawler to download security patches from the security-tracker, the debian repo or wherever you want! It can be a simple or complex as you want.
Related projects: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/ https://github.com/PatchPorting