Google Code-In

["Samuel J. Greear" <sjg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We have just reached 30 tasks completed for Google Code-In, but we are
now down to a single task in-progress. There are 34 more tasks in the
pool, but adoption of these remaining tasks is going at a much slower
rate than before. The possible reasons are numerous, but it would be
great to add more useful tasks to the pool in an attempt to reach the
broadest possible demographic of students participating.

I will include summaries below of the completed and the unclaimed
tasks, in the hopes that they may spark some ideas. Please send any
ideas you might have, either on-list or off. There are some
exceptionally bright students participating, so please do not leave
out tasks that you might consider "too hard", only those that would be
"too large", unless they can be broken down into pieces.

Thanks!



Completed Tasks:

kernel/code: Convert struct klist from an SLIST to a TAILQ (Part 1)
kernel/code: Convert struct klist from an SLIST to a TAILQ (Part 2)
doc: Write an EXAMPLES section for the setitimer(2) manpage
doc: Write an EXAMPLES section for the getsockopt(2)/setsockopt(2) manpage(s)
doc: Write an EXAMPLES section for the
socket(2)/accept(2)/bind(2)/connect(2) manpage(s)
doc: Write an EXAMPLES section for the writev(2) manpage
doc: Write an EXAMPLES section for the select(2) manpage
doc: Write an EXAMPLES section for the poll(2) manpage
doc: Write an EXAMPLES section for the fork(2) manpage
doc: Write an EXAMPLES section for the send(2)/recv(2) manpage(s)
doc: Write an EXAMPLES section for the mmap(2) manpage
doc: Write an EXAMPLES section for the setjmp(3)/longmp(3) manpage(s)
doc: Write an EXAMPLES section for the dladdr(3)/dlinfo(3)/dlopen(3) manpage(s)
doc: Write an EXAMPLES section for the directory(3)/scandir(3) manpage(s)
doc: Write an EXAMPLES section for the
ucontext(3)/makecontext(3)/getcontext(3)/setcontext(3) manpage(s)
doc: Write an EXAMPLES section for the glob(3) manpage(s)
doc: Write an EXAMPLES section for the popen(3)/system(3) manpage(s)
doc: Write an EXAMPLES section for the exec(3) manpage(s)
bugs.dragonflybsd.org layout
Get to the desktop
Regression test
code: write a devattr tool
code: Add usage() to vkernels
doc/research: Describe all lwkt.* sysctl's that lack a description
doc/research: Describe all debug.* sysctl's that lack a description
doc/research: Describe all net.inet6.* sysctl's that lack a description
doc/research: Describe all net.inet.* and net.local.* sysctl's that
lack a description
doc/research: Describe all vm.stats.* sysctl's that lack a description
code: Change default password hashing from md5 to SHA2
Create an installation video


Open/unclaimed tasks:

doc: Improve the wlan(4) manpage
doc: Write an EXAMPLES section for the sendfile(2) manpage
doc: Write an EXAMPLES section for the
msgctl(3)/msgget(3)/msgrcv(3)/msgsnd(3) manpage(s)
doc: Write an EXAMPLES section for the tree(3) manpage(s)
doc: Update Chapter 13 of the old handbook
doc: Update Chapter 14 of the old handbook
doc: Update Chapter 17 of the old handbook
doc: Update Chapter 18 of the old handbook
doc: Update Chapter 19 of the old handbook
doc: Update Chapter 20 of the old handbook
doc: Update Chapter 21 of the old handbook
doc: Update Chapter 22 of the old handbook
doc: Update Chapter 25 of the old handbook
code: make du(1) show space used by historical data on the HAMMER filesystem
code: make df(1) show space used by historical data on the HAMMER filesystem
code: make hammer iostats display humanized output
Release benchmarking
Document upgrading
Tear out C/H/S disk reporting
Implement sem_* functions
doc: Write some handbook entries on the device mapper (dm), lvm,
cryptsetup, crypttab and initrd
code: Change the display of iostat(8)
Research: find out what functionality is missing in our
udev/libdevattr to get Linux' applications using libudev to work
How-To SAMBA Server
doc/research: Describe all p1003_1b.* sysctl's that lack a description
doc/research: Describe many vfs.* sysctl's that lack a description
doc/research: Describe all vfs.nfs.* sysctl's that lack a description
doc/research: Describe all vfs.hammer.* sysctl's that lack a description
doc/research: Describe all kern.ipc.* sysctl's that lack a description
Create a basic setup screencast
Create a vkernel screencast
Create a HAMMER screencast
Porting FTP server documentation
Document Hammer recovery