Looking for a Google Summer of Code Mentor

[Michael Biebl]

Hi Alex,

thanks for your interest in Debian and systemd!

Reading through your proposal, I somehow miss the connection to Debian 
i.e. why this is best sponsored as a Debian specific project.

Maybe I'm missing something, but to me, this looks more like a project 
that should be sponsored by the systemd upstream project.
In the past, systemd upstream has participated in Outreachy.
Maybe they'd be willing to join GsoC as s well.

Regards,
Michael


Am 18.01.24 um 17:31 schrieb 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

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