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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: jtotto@uwaterloo.ca
Cc: wei.liu2@citrix.com, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
	czylin@uwaterloo.ca, xen-devel@lists.xen.org,
	hjarmstr@uwaterloo.ca
Subject: Re: Taking on a Xen development project
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:59:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151210105936.GA9371@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151204152600.10081fr70ozsbbh4@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca>

Hello

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 03:26:00PM -0500, jtotto@uwaterloo.ca wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We're a team of three fourth-year undergraduate software engineering
> students at the University of Waterloo in Canada.  We're in the process
> of planning for our capstone design project, and are interested in
> contributing to Xen.  Ideally, we'd like to take on a hypervisor/kernel
> hacking project with roughly the same scope as a Google Summer of Code
> project (like the hypervisor or domain support projects described at
> [0]), following a similar timeline (roughly May to August 2016).  We're
> all broadly interested in systems programming in C, and have each had
> relevant academic and internship experiences.
> 
> Each of projects [1-3] currently on the Wiki look interesting, though
> we'd be completely open to others as well.  In particular, we'd be open
> to picking up Ben Catterall's work on HVM x86 deprivileged mode [4].  Do
> any of these projects seem like a good fit in terms of usefulness to the
> community and our timeline?  If so, we'd love to communicate more with
> any maintainers with projects in mind!  We were also hoping to
> familiarize ourselves with the project by addressing some Coverity
> issues, if any are open at the moment.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Harley Armstrong, Chester Lin, Joshua Otto
> 
> [0] http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/GSoC_2015
> [1] <http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Development_Projects#Utilize_Intel_QuickPath_on_network_and_block_path.>
> [2] <http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Development_Projects#Introducing_PowerClamp-like_driver_for_Xen>
> [3] <http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_Development_Projects#Allowing_guests_to_boot_with_a_passed-through_GPU_as_the_primary_display>
> [4]
> <http://lists.xenproject.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2015-09/msg01550.html>
> 

The powerclamp project has been taken by our Outreachy intern and the
x86 depriveleged project has been taken by Anthony Perard.

I've CC the mentors of the other two projects for you.

Wei.

> 
> 
> 
> 
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> Xen-devel@lists.xen.org
> http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-10 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-04 20:26 Taking on a Xen development project jtotto
2015-12-10 10:59 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2015-12-10 17:23 ` Andrew Cooper
2015-12-12  2:19   ` Yang Hongyang
2015-12-12 22:30     ` Joshua Otto
2015-12-12 23:02       ` Andrew Cooper
2015-12-14 22:49         ` Joshua Otto
2015-12-11 13:52 ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-12 22:07   ` Joshua Otto
2015-12-14 11:08     ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-14 22:59       ` Joshua Otto
2015-12-15 15:48         ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-28  5:16       ` Coverity tidying Joshua Otto
2015-12-28  5:16         ` [PATCH 1/5] libxl: tidy libxl_get_scheduler() according to CODING_STYLE Joshua Otto
2016-01-04 16:23           ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-05  8:20             ` Dario Faggioli
2016-01-19  5:57               ` [PATCH v2 " Chester Lin
2016-01-19  9:14                 ` Dario Faggioli
2016-01-19 11:28                 ` Wei Liu
2016-01-19 11:35                   ` Ian Campbell
2015-12-28  5:16         ` [PATCH 2/5] libxl: make GC_FREE reachable in libxl_get_scheduler() Joshua Otto
2016-01-04 16:29           ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-05  8:49             ` Dario Faggioli
2016-01-05 11:16               ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-19  5:57                 ` [PATCH v2 " Chester Lin
2016-01-19  9:08                   ` Dario Faggioli
2016-01-19 14:15                   ` Ian Jackson
2015-12-28  5:16         ` [PATCH 3/5] ns16550: widen an integer constant for Coverity Joshua Otto
2016-01-04 16:36           ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-06  9:26             ` Jan Beulich
2016-01-19  5:57               ` [PATCH v2 3/5] n16550: add sanity check for reg_shift Chester Lin
2016-01-19 13:32                 ` Jan Beulich
2016-01-25  0:41                   ` czylin
2015-12-28  5:16         ` [PATCH 4/5] credit: remove pointless local variable initialization Joshua Otto
2015-12-28  5:16         ` [PATCH 5/5] libxl: Add explicit cast to libxl_psr_cat_set_cbm Joshua Otto
2016-01-04 16:40           ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-19  5:58             ` [PATCH v2 " Chester Lin
2016-01-19  8:34               ` Dario Faggioli
2016-01-19 14:06               ` Ian Jackson
2016-01-19 14:21                 ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-19 14:28                   ` Dario Faggioli
2016-01-19 14:33                     ` Ian Jackson
2016-01-19 14:31                   ` George Dunlap
2016-01-19 14:31                 ` Ian Campbell
2016-01-19 14:35                   ` Ian Jackson
2017-01-12 18:08                     ` George Dunlap
2017-01-13  9:05                       ` Dario Faggioli
2015-12-28  9:34         ` Coverity tidying Andrew Cooper
2016-01-01  3:14           ` [PATCH] svm: rephrase local variable use for Coverity Joshua Otto
2016-01-06 13:24             ` Jan Beulich
2016-01-06 14:33               ` Boris Ostrovsky

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