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

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...