[Openstack-devel] GSoC Debian OpenStack

Loic Dachary loic at enovance.com
Mon Feb 27 19:09:42 UTC 2012


On 02/27/2012 07:24 PM, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Loic Dachary <loic at enovance.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I propose to submit the following to recruit developers to help out:
>> http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2012/Projects
>>
>> as instructed on
>> http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2012/02/msg00007.html
>>
>> We're working on a hot topic, there is a good chance this will attract students.
> +1 !
> I'm all in !
>
> What will be the student's goals ?
>
> I feel the biggest pain in OpenStack currently is:
> +documentation and QA (both official "openstack-manuals" and the
> Debian HOW-TO, and the man pages)
> (I fixed several bugs in Debian HOW-TO and sent 2 patches vs. official
> "openstack-manuals", and opened 6 more bugs upstream, but there is
> much more work to be done.)
The most useful goals are to fix such problems indeed.
> Advantages:
> If student gets his improved documentation by August/Sep 2012, it
> means that Wheezy + Essex combo will be well documented, and well
> tested. It will let Debian achieve really stable release.
>
> Alternative wishes:
> +develop cross-platform desktop GUI image uploader for glance/swift
> (in python-pyside / Qt4), but this task is likely too big for most
> students for 2 months time frame.
Yes :-)
> This feature, while a good long-term idea, does not bring immediate
> benefits for the stability of OpenStack-Essex-for-Wheezy.
>
> Any other realistic wishes, that an average student could achieve in 2 months ?
> What do you think ?


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