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Hello,

As you are probably aware, the NetBSD project will once again participate
in the Google Summer of Code 2006.  We are currently compiling a list of
possible projects, but seeing how our userbase communicates primarily via
our mailing lists, I thought I should bring your attention to these
projects.

If you are interested in participating in the Summer of Code as as
student, it would be best if you would start discussing your proposal on
this list.  You also want to take a look at
http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/soc-application.html for a list of questions
you should be able to answer in your application.

The projects relating to topics on this mailing list are:

*  Automate regression framework --  Rework the NetBSD regression
   framework to allow automated testing.

   NetBSD has a lot of regression tests at various levels collected in
   src/regress. The tests have been added as problems have been found, but
   there currently is not easy/automated way to test a given system against
   all the tests. Other projects, for example gcc, have created out of the
   box testsuites, that can be run via something simple as ?make test?. For
   a complete operating system, portable to many architectures, this is not
   possible.

   The project is: get as much automation as possible, and optionally
   design a method how the regression suite could be run in a ?build lab?
   environment on multiple machines of different architecture.=20

   See also PR 23952.

The complete list of project ideas is available online at
http://www.netbsd.org/contrib/projects.html

-Jan

P.S.: Discussions (and implementations) of any of these projects is of
course welcome regardless of whether or not you are a student or intend
to apply for the SoC. :-)

--=20
Except most of the good bits were about frogs, I remember that.
You would not believe some of the things about frogs.

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