[pkg-fso-maint] GSoC 2011 - project ideas?

[Steffen Möller]

On 03/05/2011 04:15 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote:
> Steffen Möller <steffen_moeller at gmx.de> writes:
>> This year we are again asked to submit a GSoC project proposal.
>> I don't know enough about GT04, but a mere bring install.sh
>> back to speed again plus the one or other extra might be already
>> rather helpful. Or is there something on the kernel to work on?
> 
> I'd really like to see a boot loader (u-boot or Qi) in Debian. Having
> everyone use the same boot loader would make bug reporting a lot
> easier. Install.sh documentation would not need to direct people into
> downloading "random binaries from other distros" ;-)

Could you mentor that? Or find someone to mentor it for you?
http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2011/Applying
would then be the place to go :)

> Getting kernel to debian is probably too large challenge for GSoC.
Right. But sometimes there is just something smallish to do somehow
somewhere. What we could also think more about is documentation and
tutorial. For instance, the last time I checked the cross-building was
not yet trivial because of file formats not being supported without
modules -- I luckily forget quickly about such bad times. To smoothen
this or another corner may already be sufficiently nice.

Cheers,

Steffen