Links

1. Announce: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2012/02/google-summer-of-code-2012-is-on.html

2. Timeline: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/events/google/gsoc2012

Application

FAQ entry about mentoring organisation application: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/document/show/gsoc_program/google/gsoc2012/faqs#mentoring_apply

Project ideas

• Improving Harvest

  • DanielHolbach

  • Harvest should be the number-one to-go place to find out what needs to be done in Ubuntu. A few things make this still a bit hard. One is searches and being able to bookmark them, the generated URLs are a bit problematic right now. This and some general cleanup would be a great project, Django and Javascript knowledge are important.

• Implement syslog namespace

  • SergeHallyn

  • Containers share the host's syslog, and so can read, write, and clear them. A syslog namespace should prevent the container from accessing or clearing kernel messages. Userspace-generated messages should go to the container's own syslog. Ideally, a new ns_printk() kernel function should be provided to target certain kernel-generated messages (like iptables messages).

• Improved multiple devpts mounts support

  • SergeHallyn

  • The current devpts mounts support is insufficient. Linus has proposed a very simple solution - make all devpts mounts newinstances. To do this requires some work both in kernel and userspace.

• Implement cgroup fake root

  • SergeHallyn

  • Ideally, when a container mounted cgroups, it would see a namespaced view where the cgroup of the container's init was shown as the root ('/') cgroup. See https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/23/532 for previous post and discussion.

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