Google Summer of Code: Proposals and Mentors

[Rob]

On Wednesday, 18 February 2015, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek.chauhan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 5:23 PM, Sebastian Dröge
> <sebastian at centricular.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> > On Di, 2015-02-17 at 16:59 +0000, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
> >> GStreamer is going to apply for Google Summer of Code 2015. But we need
> >> your help!
> >>
> >> We would really appreciate if you suggested proposals, volunteered for
> >> mentoring, or added content to the proposals.
> >>
> >> Current list of proposals is here:
> >> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/GSOC/socprojects.html
> >
> > Does anybody have any other ideas, or would like to be added as a
> > potential mentor for any of these projects? Would be great to get some
> > more ideas and potential mentors so we can properly handle all
> > projects :)
> >
>
> It might be useful to have a project to improve Cerbero.
>
> Cerbero's main use-case right now is to build binaries
> tarballs/packages from upstream sources. It's quite difficult to use
> it for other uses such as local development; which is a shame because
> it's currently our best way of doing cross-compilation.
>
> List of deficiencies (Incomplete):
> ==================================
> 1) Local development is hard; current best way is to push to a custom
> remote/branch
> 2) Difficult to maintain multiple checkouts of Cerbero (gst 1.4,
> master, custom, etc)
> 3) Downloaded-sources management is suboptimal (no checksums, etc)
> 4) Built-sources management is supoptimal (mtime is compared, which is
> often misleading)
> 5) No way to "uninstall"/"wipeone" a recipe; need to wipe everything
> 6) Essentially no documentation about how to use it
> 7) More![1]


Perhaps also support for some kind of recipe overlay that is just a path to
a directory whose recipes override/extend those present in the cerbero repo
now?

Better Mac OS X / iOS framework support so that you can skip the whole move
built framework out the way and then install the .pkg files malarkey.

Best regards,
Rob




>
> A subset or a superset of these problems can be turned into a GSoC
> project. The aim is not to turn Cerbero into a full-fledged package
> management system, but something that at least fulfills basic
> development requirements such as "don't arbitrarily rebuild everything
> ffs". :)
>
> I volunteer myself to mentor/co-mentor this project[2] if we think
> it's worth doing.
>
> Cheers,
> Nirbheek
>
> 1. I'm sure Alessandro has many choice expletives he would love to
> share with us on the matter
> 2. I have experience being a GSoC student and a mentor with the Gentoo
> project
>
> --
> ~Nirbheek Chauhan
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