On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Greg Freemyer
Manu (dropping project),
A library that allows access to NTFS VSCs( volume shadow copies) is part of 13.1 for the first time (libvshadow). I don't think any other distro has it included yet. VSCs are similar to BtrFS snapshots at least to some extent. (I know far more about VSCs than I do BtrFS snapshots).
I think a great SoC project would be to do one of the following:
- write a GUI front-end that would mount the volume shadow copies in /media or /run, etc. I guess it could be a new YaST module.
- integrate libvshadow into a filemanager such KDE's dolphin or mc (midnight commander)
- integrate libvshadow into snapper (I'm not sure this makes since. VSCs are readonly from Linux. They only change if the user is dual booting to Windows.)
Are either of the above appropriate openSUSE GSoC ideas? I think the scope of the projects are about right, but I'm not sure they are openSUSE specific enough.
We encourage projects that are also beyond the scope of openSUSE directly and all of them sound great ideas to me, it is just the mentor who should have time.
Thanks Greg -- Greg Freemyer
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Manu Gupta
wrote: Dear All
GSoc 2014 has been announced. Cheers to it.
We have learnt a lot over the past few months and will like to propose a set of guidelines, please let us know of your opinions
1. If the student is not writing weekly reports and the mentor fails the student, we wont accept the evaluations as PASS or go to Google for reevaluations. 2. GSoC is supposed to be a full time project. If the work is done earlier, it is upto the mentor to decide if he or she will get more work or not. 3. Students must have committed some code / package or some other form of contribution to openSUSE. 4. Students are expeceted to work atleast 4 hours a day (it will usually mean atleast 2 pull requests / commits as a bare minimum per week) 5. Students should be verified by a college professor vouching for him. 6. Mentors should encourage kick off meetings
If this is ok with you guys, I will add it to the wiki.
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