Hi Arian, On 17/02/26 06:37 PM, Arian Ott wrote:
[..] > --- BEGIN PROPOSAL --- > > Title: "DebNet: Visualising the Bus Factor – Graph Analysis of Debian's > Infrastructure" > > Description: > Debian has more than 70.000 packages in the archives, which are all held > together by a decentralised community of a few thousand volunteers. > DebNet aims to visualise the resilience of the archive by modelling the > archive as a graph. You will collaborate with mentors to define specific KPIs > (e.g. Bus Factor, Centrality, ...) to evaluate archive health. The goal is to > identify critical packages that are abandoned or rely on too few maintainers > which need more support. You will build a FastAPI application to provide all > analysed data through HTTP endpoints. This project offers the chance to > actively shape how we detect single points of failure > within the distribution. > > Confirmed Mentor: Christian Kastner, Arian Ott > How to contact the mentor: Christian Kastner <[email protected]>, Arian Ott > <[email protected]> > Confirmed co-mentors: Debian AI Team <[email protected]> > Difficulty Level: hard > Project Size: 350h > Deliverables of the project: > - FastAPI backend (which does all the analytics etc.) > Desirable skills: > - Foundational knowledge of Graph Theory > - Python programming > - Basic knowledge of SQL > What the intern will learn: > - Using Graph theory to analyse the debian archive > - Building secure and performant FastAPI applications > Application Tasks: > - Solve the tasks from this repo: > https://salsa.debian.org/Arian-Ott/debnet-application-tasks > Related projects: None (maybe UDD?) > AI usage Policy: All contributions should be created by the student. > > > --- END PROPOSAL --- Proposal have all the fields and seems great. I see that you created application tasks by yourself. That's wonderful. If you have a debian wiki account just go ahead and add proposal to SummerOfCode2026/Projects[1]. If not, I can add it for you. Let me know. > Sorry again for all the chaos.. I messed up the timeline a bit. > Christian would be representing Debian towards Google for this GSoC. Don't worry about it. There weren't any chaos :). You took time to figure out a proposal, polished it and submitted. We truly appreciate that. Glad you found a DD. > If you need anything from me, just let me knowYou can also ping me in the > IRC. ACK. Thanks again for the proposal. --abhijith [1] - https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2026/Projects (Scroll down towards end)
