Raphael Hertzog a écrit : Hi Raphael and thanks for your mail. > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Obey Arthur Liu wrote: >> * 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. > > I thought that Marc was not able to mentor this one. Did he change his > mind ? Marc was put as a placeholder. Josselin Mouette is now the mentor. >> * 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. > > IMO it's important to have some web UI but we already had a project for > this IIRC and it was not very successful. It would be interesting to know > how the approach followed this year will differ from last time so that we > have some good results this time. You should ask Marga about this but OTOH, I remember there were issues with Django not being mature enough two years ago (Django has reached 1.0 since), python-bts not being there yet and the scope of the project being quite large.. >> * On-demand Cloud Computing with Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus Integration * >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Student: David Wendt Jr, Mentor: (probably) Steffen Moeller *see below* >> >> 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. > > I wonder what the challenges are… or is it simply about an UI that wraps > deboostrap and some loop-mounting of filesystem images ? The proposal lives here: <http://wiki.debian.org/DavidWendt/GSOCProposal> There a decent quantity of work, having both Amazon EC2 and Eucalyptus developers on board. >> * 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. > > What parts are concerned and how will it work out with Roger Leigh ? > Will he be involved or not ? Phil posted his proposal here: <http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/user/pkern/wb_python> > I remember that among the rules the student should work alone on the > code, he should not have external help so that the result can be judged as > being his work. Would it be problematic in this case ? There's no such rule. The only common sense rule is that we should distinguish his commits, which is quite easy. Cheers Arthur -- Obey Arthur Liu <http://www.milliways.fr>
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