Looking for a Google Summer of Code Mentor

[Alex Lieflander]

Hello,

I haven’t contributed to Debian before, but I recently read about Google Summer of Code and I’d love to participate. I’m trying to create a Debian-specific package which heavily relies on systemd and integrates with existing features. It seems that in order to submit my proposal for consideration I need a Debian developer to agree to mentor that project, and I’m wondering whether anyone on this mailing list would be interested. I haven’t written a proposal yet, but here’s a brief description of the project:

It’s called “Simple Slices”, and the goal is to make prioritized resource distribution more accessible to regular users by providing a small number of pre-configured systemd slices with different priorities; instead of a user specifying “nice” and “ionice" or CPUWeight and IOWeight values (and knowing what those mean), they specify a human-readable priority class like “medium-high".

By doing this via slices, systemd services and scopes can be given that priority class across reboots just by specifying the Slice directive via a drop-in config file. That could easily be done by a user-friendly application or as an overridable default specified by Debian, and because many DEs (at least KDE) launch graphical applications in systemd scopes, graphical applications could also be given a persistent priority level. There are several other really cool things about this project, and I’d be happy to provide additional information or answer any questions.

If anyone would be interested in mentoring this project or just contributing, please let me know.

Thanks,
Alex Lieflander