[B.A.T.M.A.N.] Opportunity to contribute in B.A.T.M.A.N

[B.A.T.M.A.N.] Opportunity to contribute in B.A.T.M.A.N

[Dhruvesh Rathore]

Hello,
	
	We are a group of students that are currently pursuing our undergraduate degrees in Computer Science form Pune Institute of Computer Technology (PICT), Maharashtra, India. We will be graduating in June 2015 and are currently in our final year. For our final year B.E project we have selected the domain as Computer Networks and would be very interested in working in the field of routing protocols for multihop ad-hoc mesh networks, which is where we stumbled upon the B.A.T.M.A.N protocol.
     Over the past few weeks we have been extensively studying the various features and working principles which has allowed this protocol to prosper. It will be a great learning opportunity for us to work with B.A.T.M.A.N and in turn work with you. As per given on the open-mesh.org website for contributions, we would appreciate if you could steer us towards the direction of choosing the right topic and working towards culminating a project in the same, which would be helpful for the community.
     	Following are a few details which includes information about us, which would help you in making an informed decision:

1) Group name: A-DRS
     It is our constant belief that inquisitiveness is the best teacher. For each one of us, coming together as a group has allowed us to begin the journey of learning and innovating. We have been working together since December 2012 and have completed numerous projects in our college and for organizations, some of which you can view at out GitHub account link : ( https://github.com/a-drs?tab=contributions&from=2014-07-18 ).

2) Group members:
      Amey Ruikar ( ameyruikar@yahoo.com , in.linkedin.com/pub/amey-ruikar/9a/315/1b7/ )
     	Dhruvesh Rathore (dhruvesh_r@outlook.com , in.linkedin.com/pub/dhruvesh-rathore/9a/550/56a/ )
      Somdeep Dey (somdeepdey10@gmail.com , in.linkedin.com/pub/somdeep-dey/a0/124/bb7/)

3) We have two mentors working with us, who will be guiding us throughout the process
     	Nafisa Mandliwala (nafisa.madliwala@gmail.com)
     	Swapnil Pimpale (pimplae.swapnil@gmail.com)

4) Development time ( 6 to 7 months from August'14 to February'15 )

We would love to hear from you about any ideas that you see fit for us to pursue and which are feasible in the specified time frame. Hoping to hear from you soon, and thanking you in anticipation.

Regards.

Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] Opportunity to contribute in B.A.T.M.A.N

[Simon Wunderlich]

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Hello Dhruvesh,

> Hello,
> 
> 	We are a group of students that are currently pursuing our undergraduate
> degrees in Computer Science form Pune Institute of Computer Technology
> (PICT), Maharashtra, India. We will be graduating in June 2015 and are
> currently in our final year. For our final year B.E project we have
> selected the domain as Computer Networks and would be very interested in
> working in the field of routing protocols for multihop ad-hoc mesh
> networks, which is where we stumbled upon the B.A.T.M.A.N protocol. Over
> the past few weeks we have been extensively studying the various features
> and working principles which has allowed this protocol to prosper. It will
> be a great learning opportunity for us to work with B.A.T.M.A.N and in
> turn work with you. As per given on the open-mesh.org website for
> contributions, we would appreciate if you could steer us towards the
> direction of choosing the right topic and working towards culminating a
> project in the same, which would be helpful for the community. Following
> are a few details which includes information about us, which would help
> you in making an informed decision:

Thank you very much for your interesting proposal. We have discussed a little 
bit about topics you might find interesting and which are currently vacant:

 * Distributed ARP table support for IPv6 - this has been started but they guy 
who has been working on it doesn't have the time anymore. You could pick up 
the patches [1]
 * Interconnecting batman-adv clouds. We have a rough draft proposal [2] 
already, but nothing more
 * Evaluation and review of BATMAN V - we currently work on the next 
generation of BATMAN routing, and testing/reviewing that would certainly help.

I'm not sure how much experience you have in kernel development. Depending on 
the task you choose, it would be a good thing to start reading about how the 
kernel and kernel modules work. In any case, for submitting code you must 
comply to the Linux kernel coding style[3], and should run your patches 
through checkpatch, but you probably have already read that in our 
contribute[4] page. And please don't hesitate to send patches early, you can 
always send unfinished stuff as RFC patches. As you can see on the mailing 
list, we usually have a few review cycles for patches, and even though you 
have a few months planned development, time runs out easily and it would be 
sad to see half-finished stuff stopped being worked on. :) You should plan to 
release the first feature-complete patchset at half-time at latest to have 
enough time for review/corrections.

If you have ideas on your own what you want to work on, please don't hesitate 
to propose them!

Cheers,
     Simon

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.org.freifunk.batman/10014/focus=10574
[2] http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki/Connecting-Batman-adv-
clouds
[3] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle
[4] http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/open-mesh/wiki/Contribute

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