From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/6980 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Christopher Meng Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: GSoC projects? Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 10:03:46 +0800 Message-ID: References: <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=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423620282 24707 80.91.229.3 (11 Feb 2015 02:04:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 02:04:42 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-6993-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Wed Feb 11 03:04:42 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 1YLMfR-0000Jq-1h for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 03:04:41 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 5970 invoked by uid 550); 11 Feb 2015 02:04:39 -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 5956 invoked from network); 11 Feb 2015 02:04:38 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id :subject:to:content-type; bh=cODUi9kHxq98F8b3slpAfLvs/vmaEVUjhnCU90MeSCU=; b=QLZInnXBDENjPARnLJawspoTpQyh7p1Cy/rx68I15TuOOmaYdokidFuj8vL7kEvNwU 7EI6i0VL5U096A/JkM4THVpaMcqjBO6orcrp3zRDG3sZWyXY0qvrhByBJsDn0sU485Ol nW5yAmuHdx8Aiy8CKmDiPSd+T+UVf5t3OuWdT9QFNGC+zN8k/ICQmaZ3hhJ8DXI4sE9D HzgLYZKMJdxdfzfhdlUiW5garZlG5PS7mFEz4yH5ykvTlPAdqR1gPMMeXXM1fXVSPb4q 0/yZHeBTG+5/rF/7M7k54N/nSjD6SaYs8FN1Ce04qLkpWu5IGoxxkBtRGI/j5bQG63dj kbFQ== X-Received: by 10.170.47.8 with SMTP id 8mr11696607ykp.18.1423620267079; Tue, 10 Feb 2015 18:04:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20150210223110.GA25576@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:6980 Archived-At: On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 6:31 AM, Rich Felker wrote: > 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 Hi Rich, I'm interested in musl for a long time, I could be a student of this. But I'm not sure how strong the skill you need ;) Thanks.