[Buildbot-devel] Welcome to this year's GSoC students!

[Pierre Tardy]

Yeah! Both projects are very cool, and students look very motivated.

I can't wait I can put a amp/java buildbot slave on my android phone to CI
test the buildbot UI on it :o)

Cheers
Pierre


On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Marc-Antoine Ruel <maruel at chromium.org>wrote:

> Both project are really important. I hope you both will have fun doing
> these!
>
> M-A
>
>
> 2013/5/29 Dustin J. Mitchell <dustin at v.igoro.us>
>
> This year's GSoC student projects have been announced!
>>
>> Srinu Palivela will be working on completing the master-side source
>> steps, with an eye toward finally removing support for the slave-side
>> implementations.  There are a few key pieces of functionality to
>> implement here, some of them quite substantial.  In fact, several VC's
>> are not implemented on the master side at all.  The end goal here is
>> to have no outstanding bugs in the master-side steps, and as a result
>> no excuse for anyone still using the slave-side implementations to
>> continue doing so.  Srinu will be working with Sam Kleinman and Ernie
>> Hershey as mentors.
>>
>> Mayorov Michael will be working on implementing a new master-slave
>> protocol, based on AMP.  This new protocol opens lots of exciting
>> possibilities: buildslave implementations in something other than
>> Python, for embedded implementations; SSL or SSH authentication of
>> master/slave connections; tunneling; resiliency to connection
>> failures; and more.  But that's all built on a solid protocol, which
>> is what we're aiming to see implemented this summer.  This project
>> requires quite a bit of careful thinking about protocol design, and he
>> has already begun this process during the application period.  John
>> Carr and Jared Grubb will be mentoring.
>>
>> Please give a warm welcome to our students, both here and on irc and Trac.
>>
>> As an FYI, mentors are responsible for keeping students on-track and
>> helping them find resources.  They are not necessarily responsible for
>> technical advice.  That's up to all of us.
>>
>> So: while I know we're all busy, please do take the time to answer
>> Srinu and Michael's questions, file and update bugs, and comment on
>> pull requests as expeditiously as possible.
>>
>> Dustin
>>
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