Re: Call for GSoC and Outreachy project ideas for summer 2022

From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu>
Cc: qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Rust-VMM Mailing List" <rust-vmm@lists.opendev.org>,
	"Damien Le Moal" <Damien.LeMoal@wdc.com>,
	"Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	"Sergio Lopez" <slp@redhat.com>,
	"Dmitry Fomichev" <Dmitry.Fomichev@wdc.com>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	"Hannes Reinecke" <hare@suse.de>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>,
	"Florescu, Andreea" <fandree@amazon.com>,
	"Hanna Reitz" <hreitz@redhat.com>,
	"Alex Agache" <aagch@amazon.com>,
	"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"John Snow" <jsnow@redhat.com>,
	"Stefano Garzarella" <sgarzare@redhat.com>,
	bdas@redhat.com, "Darren Kenny" <darren.kenny@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: Call for GSoC and Outreachy project ideas for summer 2022
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 09:34:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJSP0QXxJhxc6gr=DnPGomL+z+fcTfpUcGSDRzXt9ivP86qU+g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220218210323.hw2kkid25l7jczjo@mozz.bu.edu>

On Fri, 18 Feb 2022 at 21:05, Alexander Bulekov <alxndr@bu.edu> wrote:
>
> On 220128 1547, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > Dear QEMU, KVM, and rust-vmm communities,
> > QEMU will apply for Google Summer of Code 2022
> > (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/) and has been accepted into
> > Outreachy May-August 2022 (https://www.outreachy.org/). You can now
> > submit internship project ideas for QEMU, KVM, and rust-vmm!
> >
> > If you have experience contributing to QEMU, KVM, or rust-vmm you can
> > be a mentor. It's a great way to give back and you get to work with
> > people who are just starting out in open source.
> >
> > Please reply to this email by February 21st with your project ideas.
> >
> > Good project ideas are suitable for remote work by a competent
> > programmer who is not yet familiar with the codebase. In
> > addition, they are:
> > - Well-defined - the scope is clear
> > - Self-contained - there are few dependencies
> > - Uncontroversial - they are acceptable to the community
> > - Incremental - they produce deliverables along the way
> >
> > Feel free to post ideas even if you are unable to mentor the project.
> > It doesn't hurt to share the idea!
>
> Here are two fuzzing-related ideas:

Hi Alex,
I have added both ideas to the wiki. I tried to edit them, including
adding specific goals for the intern to complete during the summer.
Please take a look at then and feel free to edit!

> Summary: Implement rapid guest-initiated snapshot/restore functionality (for
> Fuzzing).

https://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2022#Implement_a_snapshot_fuzzing_device

> Summary: Implement a coverage-guided fuzzer for QEMU images

https://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2022#Coverage-guided_disk_image_fuzzing

Stefan