GSoC 2014 projects
Nicolas Dandrimont
4 june 2014
What's GSoC?
- Yearly program funded by Google
- Students paid to work on Free Software for the summer
Debian in GSoC
- Participating for the 9th year
- Steady increase in applicants and accepted students
- 90% success rate
Bootstrap / Porting related projects
- Peter Pentchev: Bootstrappable Debian (mentored by Wookey)
- Plamen Aleksandrov: Improve Debian port on mips/mipsel (mentored by Aron Xu, YunQiang Su, Anibal Monsalve Salazar)
- Sphinx Jiang, Xilin Sun: Improve Debian on mips64el (mentored by Aron Xu, Liang Guo, YunQiang Su)
Package management tools
- Abhishek Bhattacharjee: AppStream/DEP-11 for the Debian Archive (mentored by Matthias Klumpp)
- Floris-Andrei Stoica-Marcu: Get Muon ready (mentored by Aleix Pol, Sune Vuorela)
- Ian Donnelly: Improve Configuration Upgrade Mechanism with Elektra (mentored by Markus Raab)
Packaging
- Andrew Schurman: Recursively Building Java Project Dependencies (mentored by Daniel Pocock)
- Sergey Davidoff: Package elementary software (mentored by John Paul Adrian Glaubitz)
QA
- Alexander Ovchinnikov, Arthur Marble: Debian built with clang (mentored by Sylvestre Ledru)
- Brandon Fairchild: Debian Continuous Integration - Web Interface Improvements (mentored by Antonio Terceiro, Kartik Mistry)
- Clement Schreiner: Provide some metrics in Debile (mentored by Sylvestre Ledru)
- Joseph Bisch (mentored by Debian Metrics Portal (mentored by Stuart Prescott, Stefano Zacchiroli)
- Lucas Kanashiro (mentored by Debian Continuous Integration (mentored by Antonio Terceiro, Kartik Mistry)
Improvements on Debian tools
- Dionysis Fryaganas: Project import/export for Alioth (FusionForge) (mentored by Sylvain Beucler)
- Juliana Louback: WebRTC portal for the Debian community (mentored by Daniel Pocock)
- Kumar Sukhani: Integrate Debian with Android (mentored by Ramakrishnan Muthukrishnan, Hans-Christoph Steiner)
- Pavol Rohár: ListArchive (mentored by Martin Zobel-Helas, Alexander Wirt)