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results of the Google Summer of Code 2010

Matt Madia reported on the success of the Haiku project in this year's Google Summer of Code . Of the seven students were lined up five to implement their projects successfully. Here are all students in fast-forward:

• Atis Elst - IPv6 implementation - code
  IPv6 is not yet officially arrived in the image, there must first have some code example for the NetServer and ifconfig from Atis haikuipv6 be installed github. Atis would like to continue working on this issue until IPv6 is fully operational.

• Janito Vaqueiro Ferreira Filho - Ext3 support - code
  reading support is already available, can be written only when the journaling was tested properly. Incidentally has Janito incidentally still has some bugs in BFS and the block cache found and repaired.

• Lucian Adrian Grijincu - lkl-haiku-fsd
  Although he was initially regarded by all as very encouraging, and Lucian has unfortunately not the assessment for GSoC half over. He could not be reached for weeks from his mentor and the extent of the elaborated codes remained well short of expectations. The code is on github: lkl-linux-2.6 , lkl-haiku-fs .

• Christopher Humphries - expansion of media player - code
  Because he experienced shortly after the start of GSoC from his university, and is now but does not accept GSoC participation as an internship, Christopher had his project cut down on DVD support. Over time it became clear that the media kit still needs some features before anything can be implemented. This was also Christopher some proposals. His Haiku-DVD add-on is on github.

• Christophe Huriaux - Services Kit foundation - code
  is currently handle the service kit with synchronous and asynchronous HTTP requests. As a test application Christophe WebPositive modified so that it uses the services kit instead of cURL. As he reported Web + learned by a real speed boost, for example when downloading. Even after the GSoC Christophe wants to continue working on the kit and including through the use of add-ons facilitate the development of additional protocols.

• Nathan Mentley - x86_64 port
  Nathan has not survived, unfortunately, the final evaluation. The main reasons were insufficient communication and lack of regular patches. Insofar as the kernel port is not complete: most of the code is "stubbed" but it lacks important parts such as vm86 and SMP and other matters, such as paging and swap in the Long Mode have problems. Nathan says, that the project turned out to be more challenging than he had initially expected. Some older patches are on Trac: # 6306 , # 6307 , # 6308 , # 6309, # 6310 .

• Alex Wilson - Haiku Layout API complete - implemented code
  Alex archiving BLayout, BLayoutItem and their subclasses, BLayout is now a subclass of BLayoutItem and various applications have been modified so that they now use the layout API. Alex received while still a project in SVN write access and is determined to continue with the layout API so that it can soon become an official part of haiku.

As you can see, all in all a very successful season GSoC! much thanks to all students, Mentors and Matt Madia, who has done in the background all the administrative tasks super!