Hello All! Fist of all sorry if you received multiple copies of this message.
I'm participating as a mentor from Fedora Community in the Google Summer of Code 2011. My proposal is to integrate further Erlang with RPM (automatic provides/requires generation, live upgrades within init-script's reload/restart commands, creating RPM package directly from the rebar and perhaps something else). Unfortunately the deadline is near (08-04-2011) and nobody has volunteered so far. In order to achieve the desired goals the participant - *must* be a Fedora user. Fedora 15 is preferred (alpha version was released few weeks ago). Actually you don't need to install it on bare metal - you may use any virtualization software you want. - *should* be familiar with RPM packaging - *must* have at least superficial Erlang experience (I mean you should be able to create something more sophisticated than ping-pong example - you have only few days to learn!) - *should* be familiar with Git - *must* be eligible to participate in GSoC (in short - you're student or postgraduate) This is a one-person position. It won't require full-time participation (i think this will require ~5-10 hours per week or even less). If you're interested then please drop me a line *immediately* (our time is short). And under "line" I mean very informal CV^W self-introduction - with brief description of your skills, desired goals and motivation, GitHub account, whatever else you think is relevant. Please don't be shy if you think you're not a Great Rock Star Developer - the main goal of GSoC is to teach you something new, not to examine you. If you know a person who might be interested - forward him this message, please. Also please note that I *cannot* guarantee that this proposal will be finally approved - there are many other competing proposals (you may chose one of them instead of mine one) and some of them are very interesting indeed: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2011 Anyway we should try. -- With best regards, Peter Lemenkov.
