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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 5d42b5c6..00000000 --- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,115 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, -Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this -document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or -any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant -Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license -is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation -License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] - -We offer a wide range of possible projects to choose from. If you have an idea -not listed here, we'd love to hear about it! - -In either case, we encourage you to contact us (on [[IRC]] and/or our developer -[[mailing lists]]), so we can discuss your idea, or help you pick a suitable -task -- we will gladly explain the tasks in more detail, if the descriptions -are not clear enough. - -In fact, we suggest you discuss your choice with us even if you have no trouble -finding a task that suits you: as explained in the introduction section of the -[[student_application_form]], we ask all students to get into regular -communication with us for the application to be considered complete. Talking -about your project choice is a good start :-) - -(We strongly suggest that you generally take a look at the -[[student_application_form]] right now -- the sooner you know what we expect, -the better you can cater to it :-) ) - -Many of the project descriptions suggest some "exercise". The reason is that -for the application to be complete, we require you to make a change to the Hurd -code, and send us the resulting patch. (This is also explained in the -[[student_application_form]].) If possible, the change should make some -improvement to the code you will be working on during the summer, or to some -related code. - -The "exercise" bit in the project description is trying to give you some ideas -what kind of change this could be. In most cases it is quite obvious, though: -Try to find something to improve in the relevant code, by looking at known -issues in the [Savannah bug tracker](http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=hurd); -by running the code and testing stuff; and by looking through the code. If you -don't find anything, try with some related code -- if you task involves -translator programming, make some improvement to an existing translator; if it -involves glibc hacking, make an improvement to glibc; if it involves driver -hacking, make an improvement to the driver framework; and so on... Makes sense, -doesn't it? :-) - -Sometimes it's hard to come up with a useful improvement to the code in -question, that isn't too complicated for the purposes of the application. In -this case, we need to find a good alternative. You could for example make an -improvement to some Hurd code that is not directly related to your project: -this way you won't get familiar with working on the code you will actually need -for the task, but at least you can show that you are able to work with the Hurd -code in general. - -Another possible alternative would be making some change to the code in -question, that isn't really a useful improvement, while still making sense in -some way -- this could suffice to prove that you are able to work with the -code. - -Don't despair if you can't come up with anything suitable by yourself. Contact -us, and we will think of something together :-) - -In either case, we strongly suggest that you talk to us about the change you -want to make up front, to be sure that it is something that will get our -approval -- especially if the idea is not directly taken from the project -description. - -Also, don't let this whole patch stuff discourage you from applying! As -explained in the [[student_application_form]], it's not a problem if you do not -yet have all the necessary knowledge to do this alone -- we don't expect that. -After all, the purpose of GSoC is to introduce you to free software development -:-) We only want to see that you are able to obtain the necessary knowledge -before the end of the application process, with our help -- contact us, and we -will assist you as well as we can. - -See also the list of [Hurd-related X.Org project -ideas](http://xorg.freedesktop.org/wiki/Hurd_Porting). - -<!-- Olaf, wouldn't it make sense to put the following tasks next to each -other: language_bindings, gnat, gccgo, perl_python. --> - -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/language_bindings" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/virtualization" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/file_locking" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/server_overriding" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/tcp_ip_stack" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/nfs" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/pthreads" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/sound" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/disk_io_performance" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/vm_tuning" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/mtab" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnumach_cleanup" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/xmlfs" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/unionfs_boot" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/lexical_dot-dot" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/secure_chroot" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/package_manager" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/download_backends" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/libgtop" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/maxpath" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/gccgo" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/hardware_libs" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/cdparanoia" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/perl_python" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/testsuites" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/testing_framework" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/libcap" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/xattr" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/valgrind" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/driver_glue_code" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/dtrace" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] -[[!inline pages="community/gsoc/project_ideas/libdiskfs_locking" show=0 feeds=no actions=yes]] |