From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17762 invoked by alias); 27 Feb 2009 02:27:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 17752 invoked by uid 22791); 27 Feb 2009 02:27:51 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (HELO ti-out-0910.google.com) (209.85.142.189) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:27:42 +0000 Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id y8so1067052tia.12 for ; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:27:38 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.110.69.14 with SMTP id r14mr2893162tia.19.1235701658734; Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:27:38 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1235658320.5890.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1235658320.5890.18.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:27:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: google summer of code From: teawater To: Thiago Jung Bauermann Cc: gdb ml , Jakob Engblom , Michael Snyder Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-02/txt/msg00169.txt.bz2 Thanks Thiago, I think it's a very cool idea. On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 22:25, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering whether we want to participate in the Google Summer of > Code. The application period for mentoring organizations is from March 9 > until March 13th, so now is a good time to decide if it will be > beneficial for us. > > I think two benefits that we get from the program are: 1. possibility of > attracting new gdb developers and 2. a helping hand for features we want > to develop. > > There are some disadvantages too. From what I read, the main problem is > that mentoring a student takes some time and effort. From the GSoC > Mentors Wiki: > > "However talented the students are who you may select, they will require > significant attention from your developers, so release schedules and the > desire of your community to be supportive are important considerations. > > Many organizations have found great rewards in mentoring, but most agree > that they underestimated the amount of time that mentoring requires. > > As a potential administrator you should also consider that you will be > responsible for getting reports and forms in to the GSoC website on > time. You should make sure that your potential mentors realize that they > will need to take time to evaluate students at the mid and final points > of the 12 week period. > > Failure to meet the reporting requirements or mentoring requirements of > GSoC is a serious infraction, and reflects poorly on your organization. > If you have a big release coming out during the summer that will require > all hands, you may wish to reconsider applying." > > We have some ideas for projects that a student could implement in: > > http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ProjectIdeas > > Some that may be worth considering for this: > > 1. Help with Python scripting support; It must can make a lot of people interested in. When I told about gdb in some place, must have a lot of people ask me if gdb support python or not. :) > 2. Help with reversible debugging (not sure if teawater and Michael need > a helping hand there); I am not very clear the GSOC want student get . But maybe we can let these students do some test with reverse debug and precord, of course write some testsuite is better. :) They can not only test reverse debug with precord, but also test reverse debug with some remote-stub that support reverse-debug (For example, vmware and Simics. Maybe we need help from Jakob and Michael.) I think it will help gdb reverse debug very much. :) Thanks, Hui > 3. Support pipes in the run command (this may be too small for a GSoC); > 4. Support tracepoints in gdbserver. > > There may be some wishlist bugs in the bugzilla that we could lump > together with 3. to keep someone busy for the summer... > > Some pointers about the GSoC: > > Main page: http://code.google.com/soc/ > FAQ: http://code.google.com/opensource/gsoc/2009/faqs.html > Mentors Wiki: http://gsoc-wiki.osuosl.org/index.php/Main_Page > > -- > []'s > Thiago Jung Bauermann > IBM Linux Technology Center > >