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

Gaudenz Steinlin gaudenz at debian.org
Wed Mar 16 12:28:14 UTC 2011


Hi

I was one of the two mentors of Thibaut's last summers project.

Excerpts from Steffen Möller's message of 2011-03-15 12:55:57 +0100:
> 
> > As a quick sum up, with my modified code, d-i can run and install
> > Debian on the FR. Some of this code is now in d-i, but some parts
> > (the gta02 target itself, kernel things, and the uboot-env thing)
> > are not.

Do you have an overview of what's left to be merged? Is there an easy
place to download your patches or did you submit everything as bug
reports? If things can't go upstream (at least into branches) the next
best thing would be to have everything as patches in bug reports and
to have a usertag to easily list all these reports.

> > I've dropped kernel upstreaming for now, but I've started an
> > on-screen keyboard project so that g-i could be used on the FR or
> > any other touchscreen-only device.

Do you have an overview of what's left to upstream to have very basic
support to install on the network-console?

> > I've not really know much on the GTA04, but I suspect kernel
> > upstreaming would be easier as things like the glamo chip have
> > been removed.
> >   
> Could you possibly mentor something? You certainly have a good overview
> on what would be feasible to aim at. D-i has recently moved towards git,
> so maybe this could help us in some way.

I would also be available to mentor something again this year. IMO as
long as there is now kernel with at least basic support in Debian
there is not much point in doing more d-i work as it won't get
integrated into any official release anytime soon. We don't have to
upstream everything! It's enough to have basic support to bootstrap
the system and after that people can install a better suited kernel
from the pkg-fso repository if the want. AFAIK the major part missing
is the glamo mfd module for SD card access.

Gaudenz
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