Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-05-06 Thread Alfredo Beaumont
Osteguna 27 Apirila 2006 19:29(e)an, Thomas Schwinge(e)k idatzi zuen: > > * Make GNU Mach use more up to date device drivers. > * Work on GNU Mach's IPC / VM system. > * Transition the Hurd libraries and servers from cthreads to > pthreads. > * Rewrite pfin

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-05-03 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 03:15:03PM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > Michael Banck wrote: > >If we could find some other (Debian) developer, who is somewhat familiar > >with d-i and a good coder, as well as happy to be a mentor, this could > >still work out I think. > > I may participate in mentorign t

Re: on Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-30 Thread Michael Banck
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 03:45:23PM +0300, Constantine Kousoulos wrote: > In order to be more clear, what i meant was that i would like to get > involved with one of the ideas presented in > http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas.html regarding the GNU Hurd. > Would a "mentor" be willing

Re: on Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-29 Thread Constantine Kousoulos
In order to be more clear, what i meant was that i would like to get involved with one of the ideas presented in http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas.html regarding the GNU Hurd. Would a "mentor" be willing to cooperate with a newbie or experience on the project is required? Best r

on Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-28 Thread Constantine Kousoulos
Greetings everybody, I am a complete newbie to the hurd project. I only recently installed hurd after a lot of troubleshooting. I am also a postgraduate student of computer science with a very gnu-ish philosophy. I 'm thinking of applying for Google's summer of code. Is there a problem i don

Re: IRC channel (was: Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006)

2006-04-28 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:47:16PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:29:16PM -0400, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > [...] > > please feel invited to contact us on the bug-hurd mailing list or > > the #hurd IRC channel. > > ...on freenode.net. Why are people always fo

IRC channel (was: Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006)

2006-04-27 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 01:29:16PM -0400, Thomas Schwinge wrote: [...] > please feel invited to contact us on the bug-hurd mailing list or > the #hurd IRC channel. ...on freenode.net. Why are people always forgetting to mention the server? Freenode being by far the most popular for f

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:56:15PM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > The following is a list of items you might want to work on. [...] > > :-O Is there particular reason for dropping Xen port for GNU Mach? Like I already told you: | Gianluca wanted to work on that durin

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-27 Thread Ognyan Kulev
Thomas Schwinge wrote: > The following is a list of items you might want to work on. [...] :-O Is there particular reason for dropping Xen port for GNU Mach? Regards, ogi ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/list

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-27 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 01:26:48PM -0400, I wrote: > The GNU project is participating in this year's Summer of Code, [...] > the Hurd project [...] also [...]. I installed the HTML equivavlent of the following on our top level web page, http://hurd.gnu.org/>: #v+ The GNU Hurd project will par

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-26 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 03:15:03PM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote: > I would like to participate in mentoring Xen port development. Gianluca wanted to work on that during the summer, but _outside_ of the Google Summer of Code, since he is also mentor for the Hurd project. > all, if noone takes this ta

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-26 Thread Ognyan Kulev
I would like to participate in mentoring Xen port development. (After all, if noone takes this task I'll have to do it myself ;-) ) Although I'm sure that our nice Hurd community will be of great help for any of the tasks :-) Michael Banck wrote: If we could find some other (Debian) develope

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-24 Thread Matheus Morais
On 4/24/06, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, he said he would be available for questions and would provide hiscurrent working tree.  As one of the main debian-installer guys, hecould also be very valuable in actually getting the code in.He seems to be too busy to do the adminstrative

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-24 Thread Matheus Morais
On 4/24/06, Richard Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As I understand it, libchannel and channelio (the translator), equivalentof libstore/storeio for character devices, would become an important partof the system if it is implemented. You may want to work on it. Sure, but I need someone to explain

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-24 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 01:36:52PM -0300, Matheus Morais wrote: > On 4/24/06, Barry deFreese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matheus, > > > > If I recall correctly, Colin Watson had gotten pretty far on porting > > D-I to Hurd but was still having an issue with booting I think. > > Right, azee

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-24 Thread Richard Braun
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 01:36:52PM -0300, Matheus Morais wrote: > Anyways, I'm still looking to work on some GNU/Hurd project to SoC if > someone it can be the mentor. As I understand it, libchannel and channelio (the translator), equivalent of libstore/storeio for character devices, would become

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-24 Thread Matheus Morais
On 4/24/06, Barry deFreese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matheus,If I recall correctly, Colin Watson had gotten pretty far on porting D-I toHurd but was still having an issue with booting I think.  Right, azeem already tryed to make contact with Colin in respect to mentoring this task, but his awnser

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-24 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:43:29PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > I don't know when the deadline is For the proposals we want to make, we need to get them submitted this week, as I understand it. > porting the current servers to pthreads and fixing any remaining bugs > in pthreads might be a goo

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-24 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Thu, 20 Apr 2006 13:26:48 -0400, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > Possible projects I thought about submitting include `libchannel', > `pfinet rewrite', `nfs / nfsd rewrite / enhancement', `GNU Mach on Xen'. > > If you have ideas for other projects, please don't hesitate to tell me. > It is also pos

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-24 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:19:15PM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > Scribit Thomas Schwinge dies 20/04/2006 hora 13:26: > > [Summer of Code task proposals.] > > File systems > > > - ext3 > - xfs > - reseirfs > - jfs > - ufs > - vfat > - udf > - ntfs I'm a bit reluctant to add such task

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-24 Thread Barry deFreese
- Original Message - From: Matheus Morais To: bug-hurd@gnu.org Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 10:49 AM Subject: Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006 I had read Thomas last task about sound support on gnumach and I'm very interested in put that job done. Unfortunately, I have

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-24 Thread Matheus Morais
I had read Thomas last task about sound support on gnumach and I'm very interested in put that job done. Unfortunately, I have no enough skills for that and sounds interesting to me use SoC and one mentor to get this task. I already tryed find some mentor in project about port debian-installer to

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-24 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 06:25:43PM +0200, Alexandre Buisse wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 17:54:49 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > > Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I could imagine handling the task of mentoring with the help of the whole > > > Hurd community. That is, I'd be the

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-24 Thread Thomas Schwinge
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 08:42:07PM +0200, Gianluca Guida wrote: > On 4/20/06, Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I could imagine handling the task of mentoring with the help of the whole > > Hurd community. That is, I'd be the official mentor for the projects > > we're going to submit.

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-22 Thread Gianluca Guida
On 4/23/06, Jeroen Dekkers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To me it looks like that common standard isn't going to be here > anytime soon. I didn't said that it would have been a short term thing. But anyways, we should closely follow what's going to happen in the linux kernel, since that would affe

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-22 Thread Jeroen Dekkers
At Sat, 22 Apr 2006 20:48:18 +0200, Gianluca Guida wrote: > > Hi there (again)! > > On 4/20/06, Ognyan Kulev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > > Possible projects I thought about submitting include `libchannel', > > > `pfinet rewrite', `nfs / nfsd rewrite / enhancement', `

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-22 Thread Gianluca Guida
Hi there (again)! On 4/20/06, Ognyan Kulev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > Possible projects I thought about submitting include `libchannel', > > `pfinet rewrite', `nfs / nfsd rewrite / enhancement', `GNU Mach on Xen'. > > It will not be surprise to anyone that I consider X

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-22 Thread Gianluca Guida
Hi, I am finally back writing some serious mails. On 4/20/06, Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I could imagine handling the task of mentoring with the help of the whole > Hurd community. That is, I'd be the official mentor for the projects > we're going to submit. But for sure I'll

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-22 Thread Alexandre Buisse
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 17:54:49 +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, > > > I could imagine handling the task of mentoring with the help of the whole > > Hurd community. That is, I'd be the official mentor for the projects > > we're going to submit.

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-22 Thread Marco Gerards
Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi, > I could imagine handling the task of mentoring with the help of the whole > Hurd community. That is, I'd be the official mentor for the projects > we're going to submit. But for sure I'll need a backup who would at > least care at the times I wo

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-21 Thread Giuseppe Scrivano
Yes, you remember correctly, I did that patch against samba 3.0.5; it fixes a null pointer error with a dirty hack. I reported the bug (quite 2 years ago) but I haven't received any answer, hopefully they fixed it, I haven't tried the translator recently. Anyway, that patch doesn't fix any MA

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-21 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 01:26:48PM -0400, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > Possible projects I thought about submitting include `libchannel', > `pfinet rewrite', `nfs / nfsd rewrite / enhancement', `GNU Mach on Xen'. Other projects I could think about: * test-suite framework * update GNU Mach's device gl

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-21 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:25:38PM -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: > >Actually a samba translator is present in the hurd-extras project. > >Probably > >it is a bit broken at the moment as I haven't used/tested it from about 2 > >years. > Yes it's broken. It depends on Samba and Samba won't build f

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-21 Thread Richard Braun
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 01:26:48PM -0400, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > Possible projects I thought about submitting include `libchannel', > `pfinet rewrite', `nfs / nfsd rewrite / enhancement', `GNU Mach on Xen'. > > If you have ideas for other projects, please don't hesitate to tell me. > It is also

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-21 Thread Matheus Morais
Hi there,On 4/20/06, Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi!For those who don't know it yet: Google's Summer of Code,http://code.google.com/soc/>, is a project organized by Google wherecapable students can sign up to work on tasks (software projects) that are offered my mentoring parties.  A

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-20 Thread Barry deFreese
- Original Message - From: "Giuseppe Scrivano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Pierre THIERRY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 5:56 PM Subject: Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006 Pierre THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: T

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-20 Thread Giuseppe Scrivano
Pierre THIERRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Translators > > - CIFS/SMB Actually a samba translator is present in the hurd-extras project. Probably it is a bit broken at the moment as I haven't used/tested it from about 2 years. Thanks, Giuseppe ___

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-20 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Thomas Schwinge dies 20/04/2006 hora 13:26: > If you have ideas for other projects, please don't hesitate to tell > me. It is also possible that you come up with suggestions for > projects which you then consider yourself applying for. Network === - IPv4 - IPv6 - IPX/Netbios? Stacks

Re: Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-20 Thread Ognyan Kulev
Thomas Schwinge wrote: > Possible projects I thought about submitting include `libchannel', > `pfinet rewrite', `nfs / nfsd rewrite / enhancement', `GNU Mach on Xen'. It will not be surprise to anyone that I consider Xen port for the most important one :-) I would just like to mention the 2 major

Google's Summer of Code 2006

2006-04-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hi! For those who don't know it yet: Google's Summer of Code, http://code.google.com/soc/>, is a project organized by Google where capable students can sign up to work on tasks (software projects) that are offered my mentoring parties. A pecuniary aid is also involved. See the above URL for deta