Fedora Summer Coding community April 2010

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FAQ ideas
by Karsten Wade 06 May '10

06 May '10

Throw out some ideas, or make some edits: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_FAQ I want to put a bit more there before telling e.g. summer-coding-discuss. Maybe give us 24 hours to throw out some ideas? Make sections of questions and leave them blank or incomplete if you aren't sure what the answer is. :) - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41

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coding test
by Karsten Wade 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

Here is what I have compiled after several discussions about the coding test: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_coding_test Students -- this page is probably done, but it may change if mentors have additions/changes. Mentors -- additions/changes? - Karsten (sent to discuss and SIG lists) -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41

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meeting results - 21 April + 28 April
by Karsten Wade 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

This week's results: Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-04-28/fedora-meeting.2… Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-04-28/fedora-meeting.2… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-04-28/fedora-meeting.2… ... and last week's: Minutes: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-04-21/fedora-meeting.2… Minutes (text): http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-04-21/fedora-meeting.2… Log: http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting/2010-04-21/fedora-meeting.2… -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41

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Question about Summer Coding
by 杨杰 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

Hi, everyone! I am Yang Jie, a MSc student from China. I found Fedora-SIG some days ago and feel quite interested in this activity. I browsed the ideas but didn't find a proper idea, so I want to propose for a file sharing administration tool of Samba & NFS based on Gnome for fedora, but found it not in the idea list. I wonder could a student create an idea and propose for it? Description of the project: Name: File Sharing Administration Tool for Gnome KDE has taken an advance on file sharing which is Kcm-filesharing by allowing the user list all samba/nfs shares and allow the user to configure the shares centrally and graphically, while which is required but not supplied by Gnome. The proposed project aims to create a utility that should provide a graphical administration tool to configure both samba system shares and nfs shares. It is able to manage the file sharing management, authentication, and other most worthy configurations of samba and nfs. Its main page is https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Summer_Coding_2010_ideas_-_Gnom…. Please check it! Any advice is welcome! Thank you & Best wishes! -- Yang Jie（杨杰） hi.baidu.com/thinkdifferent Group of CLOUD, Xi'an Jiaotong University Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University PHONE: 86 1346888 3723 TEL: 86 29 82665263 EXT. 608 MSN: xtyangjie2004(a)yahoo.com.cn once i didn't know software is not free; then i knew it days later; now i find it indeed free.

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full and half projects
by Karsten Wade 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

Swiping an idea from Ruby SOC, what do you all think about having 1/2 projects that are smaller in scope, designed to run in 1/2 the time of a full project, and have 1/2 of the stipend? == full project == * ~10 weeks * Full scope * $5000 == half project == * ~5 weeks * Smaller scope * $2500 -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41

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Coding test
by Mel Chua 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/GSoC_2010_plan#Workflow_plan mentions a coding test that students have to pass - where do we find out more about the test, how to administer it, how it's designed, etc? (I can understand the test itself being non-public so students will take it on even footing.) I've been searching but unable to find stuff, so if it's simply that I'm missing something, just let me know. ;) --Mel

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Re: Fedora Summer Coding 2010 : Copr
by Toshio Kuratomi 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 04:43:43PM +0530, shan chak wrote: > Hi > My name is Shankhoneer Chakrovarty and I am a final year student pursuing > B.Tech from Indian Institute Of Information Technology. > One of my professors introduced me to FOSS ideologies and encouraged me to take > up FOSS development. I completed building up of Tibetan OCR ( Tibet is a > province of China near India China border ) which was released under GPLv2. > My skillset includes working in C,C++ and Python. I mostly work in Linux ( > Ubuntu is my favourite ) but I have dual boot system with windows as well. > I read the Copr information page.It seems to be interesting as well as long. > Are you planning to complete whole corp during this summer? > Can you include me with your project please? If there is any work on corp to > show, please tell me.Where is the codebase? > I also read the application procedure for FSoC2010 and I am really interested > in it.Can you please provide me some guidance regarding the same? > Let me fill you and any other potential students in on what the status of Copr is. Copr is a new project to implement an old idea. The idea is to make it easy for Fedora packagers to make third party repositories. The repositories can be used for a variety of purposes: * Updates to new, incompatible versions of software within a Fedora release * Packages that are not yet in Fedora * Packages that don't yet follow Fedora's Guidelines but are legal for distribution using Fedora services * Rebuilds of Fedora packages with different buid time options enabled * Other use cases that packagers will come up with once the service is deployed. We are working on three pieces of software to enable this: * mock-vm builds packages inside of a virtual machine. skvidal has this well under control and we likely are not looking for summer coding help to do this. * Headhunter allocates jobs to be performed on other computers. This is a generic service that could be used by system admins and application developers for other things besides a buildsystem. It uses func (https://fedorahosted.org/func) to have Headhunter communicate with the computers that will run the tasks. Summer coding work on this would include: + writing modules to perform tasks we need: building packages in mock, creating new repositories, updating web pages with the lists of available repositories, etc. + deciding how to deploy func, headhunter, how to share the package information, etc in order to build. + porting func and headhunter to use amqp/qmf for communication. * The Copr buildsystem is the front end to this. It needs to provide a web interface to view builder state and a command line client to manage repositories and build packages for those repos. Other pieces that could be written are an interface for users to search and browse the repositories. We'll be implementing this as a TurboGears2 project. Copr is a very new project and as such, there isn't much code to start out with. This makes working on Copr for the summer both exciting for you and risky for us: You get a chance to help design how the system works since many of the decisions of how to implement this have not been made. It's risky for us since we'll need to maintain and build on the code you write after the summer whether or not you stick around to help :-) Because of the risk, here's some of the things we're looking for in a student: * Willingness to jump on IRC and start talking with us. * Willing to start talking in public about things (#fedora-summer-coding and #fedora-admin are appropriate channels.) * We communicate with each other well -- since we're working on basics of how the system will look, we'll need to mesh well as a team... which may have nohting to do with what your skills are, just how well we end up working together. * Able to formulate ideas, discuss them, modify or discard them, and implement them. Since this is new software, we're going to be bouncing implementation ideas off of each other constantly that may be good, maybe bad, or might need to be shelved in the short term to get something that minimally works for people to use. * A Fedora packager -- you don't need to be part of Fedora already but if you are and you think you can keep maintaining pieces of Copr that you've worked on over the summer (or new pieces of the project) that is a bonus for us as we know you have a vested interest in seeing that the Copr repositories are running. * Experience with the relevant pieces of technology. If you're planning on working on the web front end, having some experience with TurboGears2 is good. If you want to work on the amqp communication, some experience setting up or programming for qpid or another amqp broker is good. Experience with python is likely to be a hard prerequisite whereas the other pieces of technology can be picked up while on the job if necessary. -Toshio

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Fedora Summer Coding Poster
by Aditya Patawari 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

Hi, I have made a poster for Fedora Summer Coding. You can download it from [1]. The tar.gz file consists of a .pdf, .png and .svg. Please consider putting it where ever you can like college/school notice boards, dorms or just hand them out to people. ps: Any better designs are most welcomed. :) [1] http://adityapatawari.com/FSC.tar.gz -- Aditya Patawari http://yaps.co.in http://blog.adityapatawari.com/ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Adimania India

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help with organization - going with the plan
by Karsten Wade 21 Apr '10

21 Apr '10

On this page we wrote out all the audiences, what we have to say to them, and how we are saying it: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_plan I've been using that plan but haven't done all the work it outlines. If you are looking to help with the organization of this program, or want to work with any of those audiences in particular, use that page to find out what to do next. Questions? - Karsten -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41

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a 30-day bumped schedule looks like ...
by Karsten Wade 14 Apr '10

14 Apr '10

... this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_Coding_2010_schedule_-_proposed_chang… (Pasted below, with monthly calendars.) We had 3 weeks slack in May already, so I moved the project start date up to 1 June and we gained 4 weeks without touching the end of the schedule. Put in an admonition that final student _project_ schedule was part of the proposal, to be debated then accepted/rejected like any other part of the proposal. As long as it's all done in time for the end date, of course. ## Proposed schedule * April 7 April - Students can begin submitting applications * May Whole month - students, mentors, and sub-projects get to know each other 13 May - Mentors need to finish idea pages 20 May - Students applications + proposals need to be in 21 May - Sponsors must pledge funding by this point 24 May - Organizers finalize how many applications will be accepted 27 May - Mentors + admins finalize rank-ordered list 28 May - Students informed yes/no about application * June 01 June - Project begins (depending on proposal) Proposals may have a modified schedule included. * Whole month - code, interact * July 5 July - Midterm evaluations period begins 12 July - Midterm evaluations due * August 09 August - Project coding completes 16 August - Students final report, code snapshot, and evaluations due 20 August - Mentor evaluations due for students 23 August - Final evaluations due back to students 25 August - Mentor, sub-project evaluations due * September 01 September - Sponsors receive report from organizers 06 September - Sponsors release and deliver funds (proposed date) April 2010 May 2010 June 2010 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 1 1 2 3 4 5 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 25 26 27 28 29 30 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 27 28 29 30 ags 30 31 July 2010 August 2010 September 2010 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 29 30 31 26 27 28 29 30 -- name: Karsten 'quaid' Wade, Sr. Community Gardener team: Red Hat Community Architecture uri: http://TheOpenSourceWay.org/wiki gpg: AD0E0C41

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Fedora Summer Coding community April 2010