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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 09:59:23 +0800
From: Christopher Meng <cickumqt@...il.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: GSoC projects?
On 2/11/15, Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
> The call for applications for mentoring organizations for Google
> Summer of Code 2015 has just opened. While we don't have the
> organizational structure for musl to participate directly in GSoC, I'd
> like to consider reaching out to some other organizations that might
> be able to act as umbrella organizations and offer some possible
> projects for students related to musl. Some ideas that come to mind
> are:
>
> - Improving toolchain support for musl.
>
> - Fixing portability issues blocking musl support in apps -- the task
> could be something like "make portability fixes for N apps to get
> them working on musl-based systems and get X% of the fixes
> upstream".
>
> - Meaningful benchmarking of libc interfaces that are likely to have
> an impact on performance. (This could be joint with glibc or Bionic,
> even.)
>
> - Packaging more apps for a musl-based dist like Alpine or Sabotage.
>
> - Porting musl to one or more additional archs, possibly covering the
> gaps in target support with musl vs uclibc.
>
> It's been a while since I've looked at GSoC specifics so some of these
> might need tweaks to make them into GSoC-worthy projects, but they all
> seem like things that would be interesting and valuable.
>
> Do we have anyone from the community who would be interested in
> mentoring (or being a student) for projects like this? Other ideas?
> Ideas on orgs to reach out to?
>
> Rich
>
Hi Rich,
I'm interested in musl for a long time, I could be a student of this.
But I'm not sure how strong the skill you need ;)
Thanks.
--
Yours sincerely,
Christopher Meng
http://cicku.me
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