Re: [libvirt] Looking for project ideas and mentors for Google Summer of Code 2014

> -----Original Message----- > From: kvm-owner(a)vger.kernel.org [mailto:kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org] > On Behalf Of Stefan Hajnoczi > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 7:58 AM > To: Cedric Bosdonnat > Cc: Jan Kiszka; qemu-devel; kvm; libvir-list(a)redhat.com; Kevin Wolf; Peter > Maydell; Peter Crosthwaite; Max Reitz; Anthony Liguori; Paolo Bonzini; > Andreas Färber; Richard Henderson > Subject: Re: [libvirt] Looking for project ideas and mentors for Google > Summer of Code 2014 > > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 03:22:04PM +0100, Cedric Bosdonnat wrote: > > On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 09:16 +0100, Jan Kiszka wrote: > > > > I need to submit our organization application (including our > > > > project > > > > ideas) on Friday. > > > > > > Hope it's not too late: just added the VT-d emulation proposal. > > > > It's not too late. Ideas page must be ready when students will > > discover the list of accepted organizations on Monday 24th. > > > > I'm not GSoc admin here, but on LibreOffice ;) > > The project ideas list is linked from the organization application form and > Google folks have mentioned messy/incomplete project ideas lists when > giving feedback to orgs that were not accepted. > > This is why it's worth having the project ideas list ready. > > But Cedric is right that we can still add project ideas later. I set the hard > deadline at March 10th when students begin applying. > > Stefan There are only a few days left before the hard deadline (March 10th) but I wanted to mention one possible project which I think is worth considering: Integration of Libvirt and CRIU to allow live-migration (and snapshots?) for containers In [1] you can find more details about the reasons why this feature would make sense together with a first analysis by Daniel about what to consider for the design. I am not applying as a student and I am not offering myself as a mentor (I do not qualify as a mentor), I Just wanted to point out a possible interesting (and challenging) project. I am afraid it would be too challenging for a 12 weeks projects, but I'll let you decide that.