Google Summer of Code: Proposals and Mentors

[Rob]

On Thursday, 19 February 2015, Andoni Morales <ylatuya at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2015-02-18 23:04 GMT+01:00 Rob <robert.swain at gmail.com <javascript:;>>:
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday, 18 February 2015, Nirbheek Chauhan
> > <nirbheek.chauhan at gmail.com <javascript:;>> 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?
>
> That's already supported using external_recipes and external_packages
> in you .cbc file:
>
>  external_recipes = {
>     'fluendo-recipes': ("/path/to/recipes/dir", 1),
>     'collabora-recipes': ("/path/to/recipes/dir", 2),
>  }
>
> The dictionary key is the name of the repository and the tuple value
> is the path to the directory with the recipes and the priority for the
> repository.


Nice! Thanks for the info.

Best regards,
Rob





>
> Andoni
>
>
> >
> > 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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