Google Summer of Code 2018 Mentors and Ideas

Fedora has an android app which lets a user to browse magazine, Fedora Ask, browse the calendar etc within it. However. it is still very primitive and requires a lot of UI/UX love. As a GSoC intern, you will be responsible for the following :

Repo : https://pagure.io/Fedora-app

Fedora has an android app which lets a user to browse Fedora Magazine, Fedora Ask, Fedocal etc within it. However, most of the functions rely on an in-app browser to render content and requires speed optimization and native integration. As a Summer of Code intern, you will be responsible for the following :

Repo : https://pagure.io/Fedora-app

During the course of the project, you will be closely working with the Fedora Community Operations (CommOps) Team to build a metrics dashboard for the community. For building the dashboard, we will be using Grimoirelab suite of tools to build the backend as well as the frontend.

Perceval is a tool that collects data from a given data source and has a lot of pre-defined plugins. The aim of this project is to add fedmsg support to it so that metrics can be pulled out of it, suitable for the Fedora community.

Primary Objectives:

Secondary Objectives: - Additional plugins to support Wordpress, Twitter and other data sources

ASP.NET Core web application for our /r/Fedora subreddit to let the user choose a flair, based on their FAS (Fedora Account System) Group memberships, and to be able to verify Discord account with FAS as contributor with CLA+1. These will be written in C# and deployed on a Fedora production server as systemd service.

You will learn: - What is it .NET Core and how to use it in Linux - How to write C# code in Linux and what IDEs are available to you. - Basic systemd unitfile structure and working with services.

Add Fedora user account authentication and fedmsg integration to Happiness Packets to deploy in Fedora’s infrastructure

Happiness Packets is a web application to send positive feedback and thank-you notes to open source contributors. You can send a note with your name or anonymously. The Fedora community plans to have a Fedora Appreciation Week in 2018, where contributors thank each other and celebrate our accomplishments together. Fedora wants to extend Happiness Packets by giving a Fedora Badge to anyone who sends a Happiness Packet to another contributor. To do this, we need to fork Happiness Packets and add support for Fedora’s authentication system and add a fedmsg hook. This lets Fedora contributors log in and receive a badge when they send a Happiness Packet.

The project is split into primary deliverables (required) and secondary deliverables (optional).

Fedora infrastructure for container image delivery is lacking any kind of automated testing of the images or underlying Dockerfiles. The Container Best Practices document is a digest of recommended practices for writing and deploying images.

With Container Best Practices serving as a “cheatsheet”, you will create a tool to perform basic and advanced checks on Dockerfiles and images that can be applicable generally regardless of an image. In cooperation with the Fedora infrastructure team, you will deploy the tool in the container infrastructure so that the tests can be executed automatically upon a new build/commit or locally before the developer pushes the changes remotely.

Conu is a library which provides Python API to interact with a selected container runtime. It simplifies writing of tests for container images. However, the project currently lacks support for OpenShift and Kubernetes.

conu defines a generic API to interact with containers and container engines. To make the project more usable, we would like to add implementation of well known container orchestration systems — Kubernetes and OpenShift.

Fedora Media Writer is a tool with two build platforms and three deployment platforms. It’s quite challenging to check all the new added code for being able to build properly and as of now, there are no tests.

Your task in this project would be to get a CI platform of your choice to work well with FMW on GitHub. The required environments are Fedora and macOS. Windows builds are done using the MinGW packages in Fedora and FMW can run using Wine - this should be sufficient for testing, however testing the MinGW builds under native Windows is a definite plus.

Qt provides the QTest framework for testing the application - it’s the preferred platform to write tests in this case, however using a bash or Python library is likely okay, too. However, once again, as QTest is easily attachable to the internal structures of FMW, it’s strongly suggested.

Bonus points are if you get automatic binary builds published in the Releases section for tags.

Working CI integration for macOS and Fedora-latest or Rawhide. A set of tests covering at least 5 closed bugs.

Fedora Media Writer now supports writing ARM images to portable media. These cards can then boot on devices that support Fedora out of the box, like the Raspberry Pi. However, to support most other boards, one has to do some modifications to the image on the flash drive. The first of them is writing uBoot (open source bootloader) to the start of the drive. Then it’s sometimes necessary to tweak some environment variables or modify a configuration file.

These are the tasks that are possible to be automated. However, it’s necessary to find a way how to do that in a clean fashion. As an example of an approach to this problem, you can take a look at the arm-image-installer. One option would be to cooperate with the ARM SIG to create a solution that uses their know-how or code directly. I have some ideas so please go ahead and talk to me.

Remember, this is pretty trivial to do on Linux, however we need this functionality to work on Windows and macOS. This induces issues - especially with filesystem handling. For your project proposal, I expect you include a rough description of how you’re planning to tackle this problem.

A Fedora Media Writer build that’s able to deliver a Fedora SD card that can boot on a currently unsupported ARM platform (for example, Cubieboard) on Linux, Windows and macOS.