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

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On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:22 AM, Christian Benvenuti (benve)
<benve@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kvm-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> On Behalf Of Stefan Hajnoczi
>> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 7:58 AM
>> To: Cedric Bosdonnat
>> Cc: Jan Kiszka; qemu-devel; kvm; libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx; Kevin Wolf; Peter
>> Maydell; Peter Crosthwaite; Max Reitz; Anthony Liguori; Paolo Bonzini;
>> Andreas Färber; Richard Henderson
>> Subject: Re:  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.

Agreed, it seems like it could be too much for someone new to libvirt
and containers.  But definitely an exciting feature idea.

Stefan

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