GSoC-2010
D1272397322
Ajake
#Google Summer of Code 2010
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#OVERVIEW
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#[Accepted Projects |
#http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/home/google/gsoc2010/plan9]
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#REQUIRED SKILLS
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#The primary skill required for working with any of our projects is
#the ability to think a little differently about problems. There are
#generally better ways to solve problems in Plan 9 and friends than
#simply trying to port (literally or conceptually) Unix solutions.
#
#Plan 9 and related projects put a high premium on elegance and
#simplicity of both design and implementation.
#
#The vast majority of development on Plan 9 is done in C. Our
#libraries are custom, although they're easy to pick up for anyone
#with Unix/POSIX C experience. The kernel and a few libraries have a
#very small amount of assembler in them. We use our shell much more
#extensively than most Unix systems (several commands common to both
#Plan 9 and Unix are simple shell scripts here; see /rc/bin for
#examples). There are user-contributed ports of perl, python, scheme,
#and a few others, but no significant body of Plan 9 programs in
#those languages. We have no c++ compiler.
#
#With Inferno, the story is the same in the kernel (almost all C, a
#very small amount of assembler), but all user-mode code (other than
#shell scripts) is written in Limbo, a type-safe concurrent language
#developed specifically for Inferno. Limbo compiles to a bytecode
#interpreted by the Dis virtual machine.
#
#Other projects under our umbrella have different constraints; Plan 9
#from User Space is dealing almost entirely with C. Glendix is
#dealing with C, largely from the Linux kernel. There are projects
#with 9p implementations in various languages.
#
#IDEAS
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# *	Drawterm on handhelds w/ 9p access to "interesting" devices
#
#For folks using Plan 9 regularly, it'd be nice to be able to have a
#drawterm you can take with you anywhere. Additionally, many of the
#new breed of handhelds (think the iPhone and Android) have all sorts
#of interesting devices built in: accelerometers, GPSs, multi-touch
#touch screens, cameras, and so on. Pick a few and design and
#implement file system interfaces to them in drawterm.
#
#Possible mentor: Anthony Sorace (depending on platform)
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# *	Beagle Board or IGEP port and drivers
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#Plan 9 and Inferno are much easier to port than comparable systems,
#and we love to see the systems running on all sorts of devices. We
#have good support for ARM systems, and much of the community is
#excited about all the interesting things going on with that
#architecture.
#
#You'll need to make sure that both you and your mentor have the
#hardware in question (or can get it in the timeframe required, at
#your own cost).
#
# *	Native ssh2 implementation
# *	Native rdp implementation
# *	Java port for Plan 9, this is a Bell Labs request
#
#At the labs we get a lot of interest in Plan 9 but not having Java,
#which is the de facto programming language in many fields, is often
#a deal breaker. The project would consist of getting a jvm running
#and then getting as many (non-graphical) libraries running in the
#time allotted.
#
# *	Finishing up the go runtime
# *	imapd security updates
#
#It would be nice to get support for various IMAP extensions,
#including starttls, logindisabled, digest-md5, anonymous, and
#sasl-ir (yes, these should be all caps, but it confuses the wiki).
#
#Possible mentor: Noah Evans
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# *	factotum: better (application agnostic) support for SASL
#	mechanisms
# *	Virtio device/network/9P support for Plan 9 and/or Inferno and
#	KVM/Qemu
#
#Virtio is a model for devices, such as block devices or NICs, that
#allows for greater performance for virtualized OSes than emulation
#of real hardware. Virtio devices show up as PCI devices and require
#a conventional device driver for control; there is a spec available
#at http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/virtio-spec. Virtio on the host is
#implemented by KVM and QEMU at least.
#
#Possible mentor: Lyndon Nerenberg
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# *	Windowing system for handhelds, Inferno of Plan 9
#
#Handheld devices present a different set of constraint from a
#desktop environment; typically, smaller screens and a more
#restricted pointing interface (fewer, if any, buttons). Come up with
#a design which fits with the Plan9 and Inferno principles while
#working well for users within these tighter constraints.
#
# *	Inferno authentication in Plan 9's factotum
# *	A tool to make 9vx failures easier to debug and improve the
#	reliability of 9vx
#
#Suggested by Ron Minnich.
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# *	Better wikifs syntax
#
#The wikifs syntax in both Plan 9 and Inferno is very simplistic,
#causing some counter-intuitive results. It'd be nice to use
#something like [markdown |
#http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/] for wiki pages. In
#addition to just the HTML generation, take a look at how wikifs
#rewrites pages in its local store, which may need changes. Consider
#whether it makes sense to allow drop-in replacement formatters. This
#should be a low- to medium-complexity project for someone with good
#C skills and some experience with text processing applicaitons.
#
#Possible mentor: Anthony Sorace
#
#You may also want to check out our ideas pages from previous years:
#[2009 | http://gsoc.cat-v.org/ideas/] [2008 |
#http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/gsoc2008/index.html] [2007
#| http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/gsoc2007/index.html]
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#POTENTIAL MENTORS
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# *	Name - Email - IRC nick - areas of interest (as a mentor)
# *	Anthony Sorace - a@9srv.net - anth - Limbo, user-mode C
# *	Anant Narayanan - anant@kix.in - KillerX - Glendix
# *	Ron Minnich - rminnich@gmail.com - rminnich -
# *	David Eckhardt - David.Eckhardt@cs.cmu.edu - -
# *	Noah Evans - noah.evans@gmail.com - npe -
# *	Lyndon Nerenberg - lyndon@orthanc.ca - ve6bbm - factotum imap smtp
# *	Erik Quanstrom - quanstro@quanstro.net - - upas, networking,
#	small drivers
# *	Steve Simon - steve@quintile.net - quintile - user mode C,
#	Windows interoperation
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#FURTHER INFORMATION
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#Links from Google:
# *	[FAQ |
#	http://socghop.appspot.com/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2010/faqs] (which includes the timeline)
#
#Previous Plan 9 GSoC Info
# *	Plan 9 GSoC 2007: [gsoc2007] [Google |
#	http://code.google.com/soc/2007/p9/about.html]
# *	Plan 9 GSoC 2008: [gsoc2008]
# *	Plan 9 GSoC 2009: [Google |
#	http://socghop.appspot.com/gsoc/org/show/google/gsoc2009/plan9]
# *	[gsoc 2008 application template]
# *	[gsoc 2008 student guidelines]
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