Re: [libvirt] Add GSoC project ideas to the wiki!

2012-02-24 Thread Stefan Hajnoczi
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Michal Privoznik  wrote:
> On 24.02.2012 10:19, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Thank you for the opportunity. I was personally thinking about something
> libvirt-snmp related. Nowdays, it is difficult to add new elements to
> MIB, as some parts of code were generated by mib2c. Any change to MIB
> requires regeneration of such source files and thus leads to loss of all
> previous changes. So one thing that is coming to my mind is drop this
> dependency and use libsnmp directly. But I am not sure it is worth of GSoC.

If this project is self-contained and can be completed in 12 weeks by
a person without prior libvirt and SNMP experience, but fluent C
programming skills, then it sounds suitable.

Is there any creativity required or problems to solve that aren't
grunt work?  For example, if you just need to run mib2c and then
manually diff to produce the final C version, then this sounds like a
lot of manual work but little gain for the student.

Stefan

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Re: [libvirt] Add GSoC project ideas to the wiki!

2012-02-24 Thread Michal Privoznik
On 24.02.2012 10:19, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> This is a reminder that QEMU will apply for Google Summer of Code 2012 and we
> need project ideas and mentors.  Libvirt and kvm.ko projects are also welcome!
> 
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2012
> 
> Please add yourself to the wiki now if you want to mentor a project
> this summer.  I will file our application next week.
> 
> Thanks,
> Stefan

Hi Stefan,

Thank you for the opportunity. I was personally thinking about something
libvirt-snmp related. Nowdays, it is difficult to add new elements to
MIB, as some parts of code were generated by mib2c. Any change to MIB
requires regeneration of such source files and thus leads to loss of all
previous changes. So one thing that is coming to my mind is drop this
dependency and use libsnmp directly. But I am not sure it is worth of GSoC.

Michal

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