First draft - comments/changes please... Debian will again be taking part in Google's Summer of Code program[1]. We have been accepted as a mentor organisation, with 9 students paid by Google to work full time during the summer vacation on a range of projects to help Debian. Several of Debian's existing developers will be working alongside these students as mentors during that period, providing guidance and evaluating the code produced. Jeroen van Wolffelaar's project will be to implement "Mole, an infrastructure for managing information". The idea is to help make Debian's vast supply of data more accessible to the developers and users. Ian Haken will be working on "Automated Upgrade Testing Using QEMU". This will help us to automatically track down more possible bugs in upgrade cycles. Ana Beatriz Guerrero Lopez's plan is to work on improvements to Piuparts, another of the Debian project's array of quality testing systems. Gustavo Rezende Montesino has ideas about a "Bug Triage and Forward Tool" to help developers deal more effectively with tracing bugs and interacting with bug reporters and upstream bug tracking systems. A "BitTorrent Proxy for Debian Archive" is Cameron Dale's project for the summer. He hopes to expand on the BitTorrent application to work effectively with large, constantly updating collections of files such as the Debian archive Pavel Vinogradov will be developing an "OVAL agent for Debian" - a status monitoring system for the security management of clusters of Debian systems. This system is based on the OVAL language, which provides a uniform mechanism to report on and control security centrally. Margarita Manterola Rivero's project is a "Bug Submission and Manipulation Web-based User Interface for debbugs". Debian already has a large open bug tracking system, and this new tool should make it easier for users to report and check on bugs in that system. Martin Hernan Ferrari will be working on "A modular lintian-like CD-image testing tool" to help the Debian CD team and others in their work, allowing more automated testing of CD and DVD images as they are produced. Chris Lamb's work will be a "GUI frontend for live-helper for building live Debian systems". This will make it much easier for Debian developers and others to generate versions of Debian that boot and work directly from a CD/DVD. More information about these projects will be made available on the Debian website[2] as the projects progress. [1] http://code.google.com/soc/ [2] http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2007 -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com Support the Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression: http://www.eff.org/cafe/
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