FreeBSD: Google Summer of Code 2007 Projects
Welcome to the FreeBSD Summer of Code 2007 Project Page. The FreeBSD Project was very lucky to have 25 students generously funded by Google to spend the Summer working on improving FreeBSD. Students are encouraged to add a Wiki here with an introduction and a summary of their work. The lucky winners are :
- AttilioRao <attilio> - Rewriting lockmgr(9) syncronization primitive - JeffRoberson to mentor
- Brian Chu <chub> - msdosfs infrastructure works - Konstantin Belousov to mentor
- Constantine A. Murenin <cnst> - Port OpenBSD's sysctl Hardware Sensors framework - Shteryana Shopova to mentor
- GáborKövesdán <gabor> - Improving the Ports Collection Infrastructure - AndrewPantyukhin to mentor
- Ngie Cooper <gcooper> - Improve performance with packages and create unified ports management frontend - Kirill Ponomarev to mentor
- Nanjun Li <nj> - TCP/IP regression test suite - George V. Neville-Neil to mentor
- RomanDivacky <rdivacky> - Finishing of linuxulator update to Linux 2.6 - KonstantinBelousov to mentor
- Sonja Milicic <smilicic> - FreeBSD “safety net” IO logging utility - LukasErtl to mentor
Questions about this program can be directed at the FreeBSD Summer of Code committee, soc@FreeBSD.org .
You can talk to other students and FreeBSD developers in the #freebsd-soc IRC channel on EFnet.
More information about the program is available on Google's Summer of Code 2007 web site.
Infrastructure
FreeBSD Summer of Code projects are hosted in the FreeBSD Perforce repository. You can browse on-going work using this URL:
An alternative web-interface to the p4 repository is also available:
Code-sample snapshots from 2007-08-20 for all students that have received passing final evaluations are publicly hosted by Google: