[gsoc-dev] Regarding GSOC 2014

[Lance Albertson]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Anurag Soni <anuragsoni.iiith at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have gone through the codebase. I think I have understood most of it and
> got a quite clear picture of the workflow. I have some doubts related to
> the project though. Can you please clarify them.
>
> 1. How does the master get updated, I mean is there any cron job running
> on it like the slaves or do we  manually run the update script?
>

There is a cronjob [1] that adds the run-update command with --email.
That's how the master initiates the upstream syncing. Cron itself isn't
necessarily a requirement given enough reason, its just what we've used for
years.

[1] 
https://github.com/osuosl/osuosl-mirror-sync/blob/master/cron.d/update.master#L13


> 2. During addition of new project, do we  manually push the project files
> on the master or is there any other way.
>

Currently our configuration management pushes out the necessary files
that we manually add. I'd prefer to have some other configurable way of
doing that moving forward that isn't necessarily tied to configuration
management. (i.e. perhaps an API that configuration management could talk
to to add/remove projects). I'd prefer this app to manage most of its own
configuration if possible.


> Also, What is the scope of the project w.r.t. GSOC, I mean what features
> we need to add, and what are the architectural changes you are looking for.
> I think, one thing is to implement the dashboard.for statistics and
> monitoring purpose..
>

Let me update the project proposal page to reflect what I'm looking for
better. I realized that I didn't do a very good job of doing that
initially. I'll let you know once I push that out later today.

And, can you please tell me when can you be available on IRC so that it
> would be easier for me to get my doubts cleared.
>

I'm generally available from 8am-5pm PDT and sometimes 7-10pm PDT
depending on what I'm doing.


> Once I am clear with the above questions, I think I can start writing my
> proposal. I want to do it as early as possible, so that you can review
> before final submission, as deadline is coming closer.
>

Thanks! Feel free to submit a draft to me directly via a Google Doc.
It'll make it easier for me to offer suggestions.


> Thanks,
> Anurag Soni,
> BTech CSE,
> IIIT Hyderabad.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Anurag Soni <anuragsoni.iiith at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
>> I have cloned from the git, and currently going through the docs in the
>> docs directory. I want to be familiar with the workflow of the code to get
>> better understanding of it and to get my use-cases. If I find any trouble I
>> will come on the IRC.
>>
>> P.S.: Currently my mid-sem examinations are going on, they will get over
>> by tomorrow. After that, I will be able to give more of my time the
>> project.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anurag Soni,
>> BTech CSE,
>> IIIT Hyderabad.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 12:08 AM, Lance Albertson <lance at osuosl.org>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Anurag Soni <
>>> anuragsoni.iiith at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am a 4th yr undergraduate student pursuing my BTech in CSE at IIIT
>>>> Hyderbad, India.
>>>>
>>>> I am interested in applying for OSL in Gsoc 2014. I had gone through
>>>> this year's idea page and am interested in applying for 'FTP Mirror
>>>> Syncing' project.
>>>>
>>>> I am good at C/C++, python,bash; which are one of the requirements. I
>>>> have quite number of project in theses languages. Some of the projects are
>>>> like:
>>>>
>>>> *Building a Visualization Orchestration Laye*r: Build a fabric that
>>>> can coordinate the provisioning of compute resources by negotiating with a
>>>> set of Hypervisors running across
>>>> physical servers in the datacenter.
>>>>
>>>> *Wikipedia Search Engine*: The objective of this project is to design
>>>> a scalable and efficient search engine using the Wikipedia data.
>>>>
>>>> *Custom Linux Shell*: Built a Linux shell with redirection, pipes,
>>>> signal handling and background task functionality in C.
>>>>
>>>> I had gone through the project idea, and got a good understanding of it.
>>>> Can someone please give me some guidance on, what should be my next
>>>> step?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I just finally published the code [1] we use with our current mirroring
>>> setup. Its not well documented unfortunately but hopefully reading the docs
>>> we do have and the code will help.
>>>
>>> I recommend you look it over and then either write a draft proposal and
>>> share it with me or discuss on this list or IRC any questions you have.
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/osuosl/osuosl-mirror-sync
>>>
>>>
>>>> P.S.: I had also sent a mail on this mailing list showing my interest a
>>>> quite ago, but didn't receive any reply.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I apologize for that! I thought I had replied to everyone but I must
>>> have missed you.
>>>
>>> Thanks-
>>>
>>> --
>>> Lance Albertson
>>> Director
>>> Oregon State University | Open Source Lab
>>>
>>
>>
>


-- 
Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab
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