Debian welcomes the 2020 GSOC interns
On Fri 22 May 2020 with tags gsoc announceWritten by Donald Norwood
Translations: fr
We are very excited to announce that Debian has selected nine interns to work under mentorship on a variety of projects with us during the Google Summer of Code.
Here are the list of the projects, students, and details of the tasks to be performed.
Project: Android SDK Tools in Debian
- Student(s): Manas Kashyap, Raman Sarda, and Samyak-jn
Deliverables of the project: Make the entire Android toolchain, Android Target Platform Framework, and SDK tools available in the Debian archives.
Project: Packaging and Quality assurance of COVID-19 relevant applications
- Student: Nilesh
Deliverables of the project: Quality assurance including bug fixing, continuous integration tests and documentation for all Debian Med applications that are known to be helpful to fight COVID-19
Project: BLAS/LAPACK Ecosystem Enhancement
- Student: Mo Zhou
Deliverables of the project: Better environment, documentation, policy, and lintian checks for BLAS/LAPACK.
Project: Quality Assurance and Continuous integration for applications in life sciences and medicine
- Student: Pranav Ballaney
Deliverables of the project: Continuous integration tests for all Debian Med applications, QA review, and bug fixes.
Project: Systemd unit translator
- Student: K Gopal Krishna
Deliverables of the project: A systemd unit to OpenRC init script translator. Updated OpenRC package into Debian Unstable.
Project: Architecture Cross-Grading Support in Debian
- Student: Kevin Wu
Deliverables of the project: Evaluate, test, and develop tools to evaluate cross-grade checks for system and user configuration.
Project: Upstream/Downstream cooperation in Ruby
- Student: utkarsh2102
Deliverables of the project: Create guide for rubygems.org on good practices for upstream maintainers, develop a tool that can detect problems and, if possible fix those errors automatically. Establish good documentation, design the tool to be extensible for other languages.
Congratulations and welcome to all the interns!
The Google Summer of Code program is possible in Debian thanks to the efforts of Debian Developers and Debian Contributors that dedicate part of their free time to mentor interns and outreach tasks.
Join us and help extend Debian! You can follow the interns' weekly reports on the debian-outreach mailing-list, chat with us on our IRC channel or reach out to the individual projects' team mailing lists.