Re: Google Summer of Code 2007

[Constantine Kousoulos]

IMHO, o GSoC project should be something doable that can be 
completed within the given time. Too broad tasks should be avoided.

Libchannel is a prerequisitive for many proposed projects. I think 
that any project that depends on it, should not be proposed. IMHO, 
each project should be independed of the others for maximum 
efficiency.

AFS? Ext2fs is not working at 100%. Ext3fs support is virtually 
null. Ognyan Kulev worked on ext3fs, but all his work is 
documented in bulgarian :(. Why bother with AFS?

cthreads-->pthreads: From time to time the same question arises. 
What is the status of pthread support? Does this task involve bug 
fixing or code writing? From my limited experience i tend to think 
it's more of the former, but then again i really don't know.

Glue code update: Finally something i have personal experience of. 
I think it's too complex to be on GSoC. For more details, see one 
of my old posts here 
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2006-11/msg00076.html. 
Linux has all the documention we need to write new glue code. 
However, Mach has almost no documentation on how to write device 
driver code. I believe this is a long term project that can only 
be accomplished under the close guidance of an experienced mentor.

For the rest of the tasks, i agree with Thomas' comments or have 
the same questions.

Thanks,
Constantine