[oi-dev] [developer] GSoC? Decision time....

[Gordon Ross]

The "ideas" page is the place to put such suggestions.  See:
  http://wiki.illumos.org/display/illumos/Google+Summer+of+Code
Feel free to add yours.

Thanks,
Gordon

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Alexander Pyhalov <alp at rsu.ru> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Garrett D'Amore писал 14.02.2014 06:43:
>
>> But they do.  Openindiana is still the reference as the only disto
>> that can build vanilla an unmodified illumos-gate.  Unless that has
>> changed?
>>
>> Resources are tight enough that if there are mentors for OI willing to
>> help out I see no issue.  Unless we have a larger number of mentors
>> and viable candidates than slots. I doubt that is going to happen this
>> year based on the responses so far.  I also haven't heard any of OI
>> developers offer to mentor so it may be a moot question.
>>
>
> Should we provide a set of specific project ideas for application?
>
> I'd like to suppose several tasks if no one objects:
> 1) make oi-userland safe in respect to parallel package compiling (now we
> support compiling multiple components in parallel), it would be good to
> support compiling most components themself in parallel;
> 2) add build-time dependency tracking to oi-userland (the framework itself
> to set buildtime dependencies for components and installing prerequisite
> packages before building) and set correct dependencies for at least all
> major components;
> 3) XNV/JDS transition to oi-userland, perhaps renewal of X11;
> 4) at last, port "your favorite software".
>
> I'd like to help but I'm not sure in
> a) how much time I can dedicate to this task
> b) if I have skills enough to mentor all these task.
>
> Also, perhaps, it's better to clear way for non-very-popular illumos tasks
> (drm/wi-fi stack/new drivers/etc). In sense, that we can solve above
> mentioned problems (or perhaps workaround them), but we can't do anything if
> OS just doesn't support specific use case or user system.
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