From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/6973 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: GSoC projects? Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:31:10 -0500 Message-ID: <20150210223110.GA25576@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423607495 22775 80.91.229.3 (10 Feb 2015 22:31:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2015 22:31:35 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-6986-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Tue Feb 10 23:31:34 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YLJLC-0002ug-5o for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:31:34 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 20311 invoked by uid 550); 10 Feb 2015 22:31:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 20303 invoked from network); 10 Feb 2015 22:31:22 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:6973 Archived-At: The call for applications for mentoring organizations for Google Summer of Code 2015 has just opened. While we don't have the organizational structure for musl to participate directly in GSoC, I'd like to consider reaching out to some other organizations that might be able to act as umbrella organizations and offer some possible projects for students related to musl. Some ideas that come to mind are: - Improving toolchain support for musl. - Fixing portability issues blocking musl support in apps -- the task could be something like "make portability fixes for N apps to get them working on musl-based systems and get X% of the fixes upstream". - Meaningful benchmarking of libc interfaces that are likely to have an impact on performance. (This could be joint with glibc or Bionic, even.) - Packaging more apps for a musl-based dist like Alpine or Sabotage. - Porting musl to one or more additional archs, possibly covering the gaps in target support with musl vs uclibc. It's been a while since I've looked at GSoC specifics so some of these might need tweaks to make them into GSoC-worthy projects, but they all seem like things that would be interesting and valuable. Do we have anyone from the community who would be interested in mentoring (or being a student) for projects like this? Other ideas? Ideas on orgs to reach out to? Rich