[Rust-VMM] Call for GSoC and Outreachy project ideas for summer 2022

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 07:11, Jason Wang <jasowang at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 11:47 PM Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha at gmail.com> 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!
>
> Implementing the VIRTIO_F_IN_ORDER feature for both Qemu and kernel
> (vhost/virtio drivers) would be an interesting idea.
>
> It satisfies all the points above since it's supported by virtio spec.
>
> (Unfortunately, I won't have time in the mentoring)

Thanks for this idea. As a stretch goal we could add implementing the
packed virtqueue layout in Linux vhost, QEMU's libvhost-user, and/or
QEMU's virtio qtest code.

Stefano: Thank you for volunteering to mentor the project. Please
write a project description (see template below) and I will add this
idea:

=== TITLE ===

 '''Summary:''' Short description of the project

 Detailed description of the project.

 '''Links:'''
 * Wiki links to relevant material
 * External links to mailing lists or web sites

 '''Details:'''
 * Skill level: beginner or intermediate or advanced
 * Language: C
 * Mentor: Email address and IRC nick
 * Suggested by: Person who suggested the idea

Stefan