Debian welcomes the 2024 GSOC contributors/students
On Wed 01 May 2024 with tags gsoc development diversity softwareWritten by Nilesh Patra
We are very excited to announce that Debian has selected seven contributors 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: anuragxone
Deliverables of the project: Make the entire Android toolchain, Android Target Platform Framework, and SDK tools available in the Debian archives.
Project: Benchmarking Parallel Performance of Numerical MPI Packages
- Student: Nikolaos
Deliverables of the project: Deliver an automated method for Debian maintainers to test selected numerical Debian packages for their parallel performance in clusters, in particular to catch performance regressions from updates, and to verify expected performance gains, such as Amdahl’s and Gufstafson’s law, from increased cluster resources.
Project: Debian MobCom
- Student: Nathan D
Deliverables of the project: Update the outdated mobile packages and recreate aged packages due to new dependencies. Bring in more mobile communication tools by adding about 5 new packages.
Project: Improve support of the Rust coreutils in Debian
- Student: Sreehari Prasad TM
Deliverables of the project: Make uutils behave more like GNU’s coreutils by improving compatibility with GNU coreutils test suit.
Project: Improve support of the Rust findutils in Debian
- Student: hanbings
Deliverables of the project: A safer and more performant implementation of the GNU suite's xargs, find, locate and updatedb tools in rust.
Project: Expanding ROCm support within Debian and derivatives
- Student: xuantengh
Deliverables of the project: Building, packaging, and uploading missing ROCm software into Debian repositories, starting with simple tools and progressing to high-level applications like PyTorch, with the final deliverables comprising a series of ROCm packages meeting community quality assurance standards.
Project: procps: Development of System Monitoring, Statistics and Information Tools in Rust
- Student: Krysztal Huang
Deliverables of the project: Improve the usability of the entire Rust-based implementation of the procps utility on Linux.
Congratulations and welcome to all the contributors!
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 contributors and outreach tasks.
Join us and help extend Debian! You can follow the contributors' 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.