Dmitry and all: here is the draft content of the GSOC candidature submission I will make later today. The deadline for submission is near to time is of the essence
The project ideas web page is here: https://sourceforge.net/p/strace/wiki/GoogleSummerOfCode2014/ Please add as needed your ideas Cheers Philippe Ombredanne ====================================================================== 1. Describe your organization. strace is a system call tracer, i.e. a debugging tool which prints out a trace of all the system calls made by a another process/program. strace is one of the longest running open source projects and started even before Linux started. strace is an important tool for debugging and tracing deployed on all Linux distribution and most Unix with a small community of active contributors and usage in many other open source projects (among others Android and Chromium use and rely on strace.) While strace is a small project the strace tool is essential for many developers and open source projects. Its maintainers and contributors are experienced developers (contributors include Linux Torvalds among many others). See http://sourceforge.net/p/strace/code/ci/master/tree/CREDITS.in 2. Why is your organization applying to participate in Google Summer of Code 2014? What do you hope to gain by participating? We want engage with students that are interested in system programming and want to help making strace a better tool. We hope to gain new long term contributors and interesting and new features. 3. Has your organization participated in past Google Summer of Codes? (yes/no) No 4. If you answered “yes” to the question above, please summarize your involvement and the successes and challenges of your participation. Please also list your pass/fail rate for each year. N/A 5. If your organization has not previously participated in Google Summer of Code, have you applied in the past? If so, for what year(s)? N/A 6. What Open Source Initiative approved license(s) does your project use? BSD, 3 clauses: see https://sourceforge.net/p/strace/code/ci/master/tree/COPYING 7. What is the URL for your Ideas list? **This is the most important part of your proposal. Please make sure we can access it and it is complete when you submit this proposal. “Placeholder” or inaccessible ideas pages will be grounds for an automatic rejection for participation in Google Summer of Code2014.** http://sourceforge.net/p/strace/wiki/GoogleSummerOfCode2014/ 8. What is the main development mailing list for your organization? https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/strace-devel 9. What is the main IRC channel for your organization? The project does not use IRC. All communications are going through the mailing list at https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/strace-devel including patches. This is simple and is very similar to the Linux kernel ways. 10. Who will be your backup organization administrator? Dmitry V. Levin, core maintainer 11. What criteria did you use to select the mentors? Please be as specific as possible. Mentors must be active contributors and committers and are willing to dedicate personal time during the GSOC project to coach students successfully. 12. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing students? Please be as specific as possible. We will try to address the issue one on one with the student first. If the work cannot be resumed, we will notify the GSOC program and report the student as failing but considering the contributions already completed in context before declaring a failure. 13. What is your plan for dealing with disappearing mentors? Please be as specific as possible. We plan to assign a backup mentor to each student. We will try to address the issue one on one with the mentor then. We will solicit alternative mentors or the administrators will pick up the slack. 14. What steps will you take to encourage students to interact with your project's community before, during and after the program? All the interactions taking place through a single mailing list, the students will have to use this list to discuss their proposal and to interact directly with the community. Longer term, participating in the community means that the student names will added the list of contributors and their contribution widely used by all strace users. 15. Are you a new organization who has a Googler or other organization to vouch for you? If so, please list their name(s) here. Chromium developers for the swarming project at https://code.google.com/p/swarming/ may vouch for the importance of strace, since they depend on it. Same for the maintainers of the strace package in Android: https://github.com/android/platform_external_strace 16. Are you an established or larger organization who would like to vouch for a new organization applying this year? If so, please list their name(s) here. N/A 17. What will you do to encourage that your accepted students stick with the project after Google Summer of Code concludes? We will encourage students to stick around by having their contributions recognized by the community. Continuous contribution to strace could be a valuable resume item for these students. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Android apps run on BlackBerry 10 Introducing the new BlackBerry 10.2.1 Runtime for Android apps. Now with support for Jelly Bean, Bluetooth, Mapview and more. Get your Android app in front of a whole new audience. Start now. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=124407151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Strace-devel mailing list Strace-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/strace-devel
