[augeas-devel] Config-Model related project for GSoC 2010 (was Fwd: Welcome to our 2010 Debian Google Summer of Code students!)

[David Lutterkort]

On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 22:25 +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote:
> It's official: I'm going to mentor a project related to config-model (without 
> forgetting Augeas which might also be involved) this year: 

Congratulations ! Le me know if I can help out in any way.

> == Content-aware Config Files Upgrading ==
> by Krzysztof Tyszecki, mentored by Dominique Dumont
> 
> When a package deliver configuration files, the problem of merging
> user data with new configuration instructions will arise during
> package upgrades on users systems. Sometimes merging can be done with
> 3 way merge, but this process does not insure that the resulting file
> is correct or even legal.

Or even what you think it might be. If you haven't seen it, Benjamin
Pierce's paper on diff3[1] is well worth a read.

David

[1] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/diff3-short.pdf