Debian participating in Google Summer of Code, Jigdo

["Tom Metro-12" <user=71@nabble.blu.org>]

 > Debian is participating in the 2008 Google Summer of Code 
> 
> The Debian project is proud to announce that it has again been accepted 
> by Google as a mentor organisation for the Summer of Code programme. We 
> have been allocated twelve tasks for this year. 
[...] 
>  * Jigdo is a tool developed to help reduce the cost of downloading 
>    and mirroring Debian CD and DVD images. Dustin Rayner's project 
>    jigdo-ivory entails the creation of a browser-based Jigdo client to 
>    make downloads much easier for end users. 

Hasn't BitTorrent obsoleted Jigdo? 


>  * Obey Arthur Liu is planning to create a GTK+ GUI for the package 
>    management tool Aptitude that will work alongside improved ncurses 
>    and command-line interfaces. This will offer a new interface design 
>    geared toward usability and advanced functionality. 

Sounds redundant with Synaptic. 

Other GSOC projects that sounded interesting: 

>  * Jonny Lamb will work on debexpo, a web-based Debian package 
>    repository to allow everyone to upload and provide personal package 
>    repositories. It includes functionality for sponsors to easily 
>    review packages and should ease contribution to Debian by offering 
>    an easy way to contribute packages for software not yet included in 
>    Debian. 
[...] 
>  * Per Andersson plans to work on improving Debians support for 
>    consumer market NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices. These 
>    popular devices are tiny files servers, often equipped with ARM 
>    processors and running an embedded Linux. This project will make it 
>    easier to install and customize Debian on these devices and further 
>    increase Debians popularity in the embedded Linux market. 
[...] 
>  * Max Wiehle is going to add support for automatically merging 
>    configuration files on system upgrades. At the moment, Debian's 
>    package management tools currently just keep track of old and new 
>    configurations as upgrades take place, so this new work will make 
>    life much easier for system administrators. 
[...] 
> Debian's tasks are listed in our wiki at 
> 
>    http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2008


  -Tom 

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