[libvirt] Google Summer of Code 2013 ideas wiki open

[Osier Yang]

On 15/04/13 23:10, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Osier Yang <jyang at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 15/04/13 22:41, harryxiyou wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:43 PM, harryxiyou <harryxiyou at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>>> I'm not hugely comfortable with the idea of "capability support" being
>>>>> done by a student. IMHO to do a good job on that design-wise requires
>>>>> someone with a very good understanding of libvirt architecture &
>>>>> application
>>>>> needs.
>>>>>
>>>> I understand. However, i think our Libvirt is developing so we should
>>>> give more
>>>> choices to learners who are very interested in some field of
>>>> Libvirt.(Like me, i
>>>> love the storage system of Libvirt very much). Maybe this is the essence
>>>> of
>>>> GSOC, isn't it? Actually, some student is not only interested in
>>>> Libvirt but also
>>>>    wanna to join this community and contribute to this community forever.
>>>> (Like
>>>> me, i love the community because i can learn more knowledge from it.)
>>>> I believe that interest is the best teacher. No matter how the problem is
>>>> difficulty i will try my best to achieve it if  i am very interested
>>>> in it. Another
>>>> key point is that GSOC just let students join the community and finish
>>>> easy
>>>> jobs firstly. GSOC wanna train more core developers for our community. If
>>>> i
>>>> can finish a job a bit difficulty, i can also accomplish it after GSOC
>>>> continuously.
>>>> All in all, i think you should not worry about this matter ;-).
>>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> After i read all comments from Danpb, Mprivozn, Osier, i find i should
>>> rephrase my project idea for Libvirt storage during GSOC 2013(Thanks
>>> for Stefan Hajnoczi. He let me know this key point). I find Osier and
>>> Mprivozn agree with the project named 'The capability support for
>>> storage' and Danpb just feel it is a bit difficulty for students to do,
>>> which
>>> i have given my feedback to explain. So i rephrase my project idea for
>>> Libvirt storage during GSOC 2013 like following.
>>>
>>>
>>> Project name: The capability support for storage driver.
>>>
>>> Summary: The capability support for storage driver (like virsh
>>> capabilities for the hypervisor drivers, e.g. what pool types it
>>> supports, what volume types each pool type supports, even
>>> may what operations/APIs the pool type support, ...etc).
>>>
>>> Sill level: Advanced.
>>>
>>> Osier said to me this is a deserved bug to fix so i think he
>>> may wanna be the mentor for this one, right?
>>
>> I could be if you want, but the question is which project you are focusing
>> on? This one or the renaming APIs? And as far as I got from the wiki page,
>> we generally don't want the student fails, and the renaming APIs work is
>> much simpler than this one, and thus more possible to succeed in 12 weeks.
>>
>> So Personally I'd suggest adding the renaming APIs as a project into the
>> wiki
>> instead.
> Is that task reasonable for 12 weeks of full-time work?
>
Yes, It couldn't mean more than 3 months...

Osier