[opensuse-project] Google SoC 2012 - student introduction
Hi, My name is Davidlohr Bueso and I am interested in working on the "Redesign fdisk to be more extensible and implement GPT support" Summer of Code 2012 project for openSUSE. I have already submitted my application and have been in contact with the project's mentor. I am a Phd. Computer Science (High Performance Computing) student at Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and have been working on Linux development for some while. I believe that the benefits of this project will extend that of openSUSE users, but the entire Linux community can benefit from. I am attaching a plain text with is what already available on Melange, I am looking forward to your comments. Thanks, Davidlohr
Le 02/04/2012 14:52, Davidlohr Bueso a écrit :
Why me: I have a good technical background in systems programming (thus C being natural to me), and have been contributing for a few years to the util-linux project, which has the mainstream fdisk program. Furthermore I am experienced with the fdisk source code and block devices (partition tables and filesystems), having written some of the interfaces used along the project - blkdev, xalloc, procutils, etc. I am one of the people with most contributions (https://www.ohloh.net/p/util-linux-ng/contributors) and am known by the maintainer and other developers.
very good news, specially the fact that you already know the util-linux team. one of the delicate points if that such sensible tool have to be maintained for a very large period of time. I follow the parted mailing list and see that pretty often there are some obscure bug discovered. Do you think you will be able to keep working on fdisk for some time after the Gsoc? thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 04:54:46PM +0200, jdd wrote:
Le 02/04/2012 14:52, Davidlohr Bueso a écrit :
Why me: I have a good technical background in systems programming (thus C being natural to me), and have been contributing for a few years to the util-linux project, which has the mainstream fdisk program. Furthermore I am experienced with the fdisk source code and block devices (partition tables and filesystems), having written some of the interfaces used along the project - blkdev, xalloc, procutils, etc. I am one of the people with most contributions (https://www.ohloh.net/p/util-linux-ng/contributors) and am known by the maintainer and other developers.
very good news, specially the fact that you already know the util-linux team.
one of the delicate points if that such sensible tool have to be maintained for a very large period of time.
I follow the parted mailing list and see that pretty often there are some obscure bug discovered.
Do you think you will be able to keep working on fdisk for some time after the Gsoc?
Obviously I can not speak for Davidlohr, but since he already did quite a lot of work on util-linux, I don't expect he will just quit after finishing the GSoC, right? :) Petr -- Petr Uzel IRC: ptr_uzl @ freenode
On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 17:02 +0200, Petr Uzel wrote:
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 04:54:46PM +0200, jdd wrote:
Le 02/04/2012 14:52, Davidlohr Bueso a écrit :
Why me: I have a good technical background in systems programming (thus C being natural to me), and have been contributing for a few years to the util-linux project, which has the mainstream fdisk program. Furthermore I am experienced with the fdisk source code and block devices (partition tables and filesystems), having written some of the interfaces used along the project - blkdev, xalloc, procutils, etc. I am one of the people with most contributions (https://www.ohloh.net/p/util-linux-ng/contributors) and am known by the maintainer and other developers.
very good news, specially the fact that you already know the util-linux team.
one of the delicate points if that such sensible tool have to be maintained for a very large period of time.
I follow the parted mailing list and see that pretty often there are some obscure bug discovered.
Do you think you will be able to keep working on fdisk for some time after the Gsoc?
Obviously I can not speak for Davidlohr, but since he already did quite a lot of work on util-linux, I don't expect he will just quit after finishing the GSoC, right? :)
Yes, with or without SoC I am already very much involved in util-linux development. Davidlohr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
Le 02/04/2012 17:08, Davidlohr Bueso a écrit :
Do you think you will be able to keep working on fdisk for some time after the Gsoc?
Obviously I can not speak for Davidlohr, but since he already did quite a lot of work on util-linux, I don't expect he will just quit after finishing the GSoC, right? :)
Yes, with or without SoC I am already very much involved in util-linux development.
it's very good. I had two years ago to deal with a gsoc student that stopped working during Jully, so why I really appreciate long term support :-)) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org
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