On 19/12/16 10:41, Samuli Seppänen wrote: > Hi, > > Il 17/12/2016 16:44, Илья Шипицин ha scritto: >> Hello, >> >> I discussed this earlier with @mattock, however, there are more ideas :) >> >> 1) what do you think of participating GSoC in general ? > > In general that is probably a good idea. That said, we'd need somebody > to mentor the student, and that can take quite a lot of time.
Agreed. The mentoring is indeed the most challenging aspect of GSoC. > OpenVPN itself is probably too much for a student that may have fairly > limited C programming/networking/cross-platform experience. Our other > projects might be better candidates for a GSoC student. I'd say it differently. If a potential candidate have a clearly defined project, that will help make it reasonable to look for mentor resources. But it needs to be something very concrete. >> 2) there are at least 2 ideas which I wished to be done with GSoC >> >> 2a) "import ovpn from URL for network-manager-openvpn" (actually, it is >> perfect way to deliver config to android/ios/whatever", but linux >> network-manager is missing that > > So one could give an URL to network-manager and it would import the > configuration? Can network-manager-openvpn import configuration files today? > > I also wonder if this should be a GSoC project for network-manager, not > OpenVPN... Agreed. This is indeed a NetworkManager project. The NetworkManager-openvpn plugin is developed and maintained by the NetworkManager team. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth OpenVPN Technologies, Inc
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