Re: [libvirt] Google Summer of Code 2013 ideas wiki open

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Osier Yang <jyang(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: > On 15/04/13 23:10, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Osier Yang <jyang(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote: >>> On 15/04/13 22:41, harryxiyou wrote: >>>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:43 PM, harryxiyou <harryxiyou(a)gmail.com&gt; >>>> wrote: >>>>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Daniel P. Berrange >>>>> <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; >>>>> 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... I asked because it seems like a very mechanical and relatively short thing to work on. If you still think the scope is good, then please add the project idea to the GSoC wiki using this template: http://qemu-project.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2013#Project_idea_template