From 4c9332756681d2db0488832b9aa75beddbd4826b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: antrik Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 05:28:07 +0100 Subject: Drop unsuitable exercise suggestions from some GSoC ideas These exercises wouldn't result in a useful patch, and thus are not appropriate in view of our patch requirement... --- community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn | 9 --------- community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot.mdwn | 3 --- community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization.mdwn | 3 --- 3 files changed, 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn index 228a1046..6dc83463 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings.mdwn @@ -65,12 +65,3 @@ bindings](http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/#pith), which might serve as a reference if you want to work on Perl. Possible mentors: Anatoly A. Kazantsev (jim-crow) for Python - -Exercise: Write some simple program(s) using Hurd-specific interfaces in the -language you intend to work on. For a start, you could try printing the system -uptime. A more advanced task is writing a simple variant of the hello -translator (you can use the existing C imlementation as reference), -implementing only open() and read() calls. Don't only write an implementations -using the existing C libraries (libps, libtrivfs), but also try to work with -the MiG-generated stubs directly. If you are ambitious, you could even try to -write your own stubs... diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot.mdwn index 77fc357f..21cf168f 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot.mdwn @@ -43,6 +43,3 @@ boot process and other parts of the design. It requires some design skills also to come up with a working mechanism. Possible mentors: ? - -Exercise: Try to write a dummy server that is started instead of ext2fs on -system boot, and starts the actual ext2fs in turn. diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization.mdwn index 4f2d260e..bfeb72f2 100644 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization.mdwn +++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization.mdwn @@ -75,9 +75,6 @@ solutions would be very helpful. Possible mentors: Olaf Buddenhagen (antrik) -Exercise: Make some modification to the "boot" programm used to start subhurds. -(More specific suggestions welcome... :-) ) - *Status*: Zheng da has has implemented [[network_virtualization|zhengda]] (an important prerequisite for unprivileged subhurds) for GSoC 2008, along with various other interesting bits, including a mechanism to override socket -- cgit v1.2.3