[asterisk-dev] Google Summer of Code 2009

[Clod Patry]

Tilghman,
i would love to apply for such a project!
Since a long time, i've the CLI filtering +verbosity change in mind, doing
this as a SOC would be great.



On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Tilghman Lesher <
tilghman at mail.jeffandtilghman.com> wrote:

> On Monday 09 March 2009 11:05:48 am Mark Michelson wrote:
> > Russell Bryant wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > The Asterisk project participated in the Google Summer of Code program
> > > in 2005, but has not since then.  I would like to apply again this
> year.
> > >   I think it is an amazing opportunity to reach out to new developers
> > > and get some code written that we all want done, but have not had a
> > > chance to get to.
> > >
> > > http://code.google.com/soc/
> > >
> > > If we want to make this happen, we have a couple of things that we need
> > > to come up with as soon as possible.  Mentoring organizations must
> > > complete their application for the program this week.
> > >
> > > 1) We need to determine who is willing to serve as a mentor from the
> > > Asterisk project.  Mentors will be paired up with a student and will
> > > provide guidance to help the student bring their project to completion.
> > >   Without commitments from mentors, we can not participate in the
> > > program.
> > >
> > > Obviously, an appropriate pairing of a mentor to a student is
> important.
> > >   It's acceptable to say, "I am willing to be a mentor, provided that
> it
> > > is for a student working on a project in my area of expertise."
> > >
> > > If you think you would be interested, please let me know!  Feel free to
> > > respond on this list, or to me directly.
> > >
> > > 2) We must build a suggested project list.  When students apply for the
> > > program, they can submit a proposal for implementing one of our
> > > suggested projects, or another project of their choosing.  Projects for
> > > this list should be appropriate in scope for a college student not yet
> > > familiar with the code base to implement in a Summer.
> > >
> > > I'm going to create a file in svn to maintain our project ideas list:
> > >
> > >   - svn/asterisk/trunk/doc/google-soc2009-ideas.txt
> > >
> > > To kick of the list of ideas, here are a couple of high level thoughts:
> > >
> > > a) I think we could break up the "PineMango" project into multiple
> > > suggested projects.
> > >
> > > b) John Todd and others had some great ideas regarding security in
> > > Asterisk at the last developer conference that could be turned into
> > > suggested projects.
> > >
> > > If you have some thoughts about other projects to add to the list,
> > > again, please let me know, and I'll add them to our ideas list.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> >
> > Firstly, let me state that I would be willing to mentor a student
> depending
> > on what area of the code they choose to work with. I can work with most
> > areas in Asterisk. The areas I would *not* feel comfortable working in
> are
> > channel drivers other than chan_sip. Any other place in Asterisk I either
> > know well enough or could learn quickly enough to be able to mentor
> > effectively.
> >
> > As far as code project ideas go, here are some suggestions (listed
> roughly
> > in order of preference):
> >
> > * ast_storage: For those not in the know, this was an attempt to make
> > several storage backends, primarily for use in app_voicemail but
> > potentially useful for other purposes, too. I think this could make a
> > decent project for a student because the code is already partially
> written,
> > app_voicemail needs some major cleanup with regards to how it handles
> > various storage destinations, and unfortunately, this just isn't
> something
> > that is likely to get tackled by anyone else any time soon.
> >
> > * manager2/managergames: These are existing branches designed to get
> > manager events converted to internal Asterisk events. While I am
> suggesting
> > this as a project, I would like to get Olle's approval first since such a
> > project could encroach on his managergames ideas. This is another project
> > that will be great and useful but is not likely to be worked on by others
> > due to other projects they're working on.
> >
> > * Transaction support for chan_sip. Pretty much self-explanatory. Would
> > help get rid of several known bugs and would make the channel driver much
> > more logical overall.
> >
> > * Anything to help regarding automated testing of Asterisk. Perhaps some
> > sort of addition to Matt Nicholson's asttest branch? I'm not really sure
> > that this is really in the spirit of GSoC though.
> >
> > Other potential places to browse for ideas are Olle's
> > http://asteriskideas.org site and the voip-info wiki.
>
> I would also be interested in mentoring a student.  Among other projects,
> we
> might want a student to change the way verbose logging in Asterisk works,
> to
> allow a constant level to always be logged to a particular logfile, without
> regard for the console verbosity.  Currently, if a PBX admin changes the
> verbosity on a remote console, it not only affects all consoles, but it
> also
> affects the messages which end up in the log.  An ideal solution would
> allow
> a default verbosity to be specified per remote console and for the logs and
> allow various consoles' verbosity to be altered independently without
> affecting the information sent to the logfiles.
>
> --
> Tilghman
>
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