GSoC - Ubuntu and Mir participation

[Thomas Voß]

Hey all,

reposting a message from Dylan McCall regarding Ubuntu's GSoC
participation, please see a list of potential Mir topics at the end of
the mail:

We're going to be applying for Google Summer of Code (GSoC) this year.
I'm sure many of you know the drill at this stage: it's an opportunity
to grow Ubuntu's developer community, share knowledge with talented
university students, make friends and get some really cool work done. We
have a wiki page all about GSoC 2013 that explains the hows and whys in
detail:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GoogleSoC2013

Since the last GSoC we participated in, Ubuntu has really found its own
with several projects led by Canonical and by members of the community.
As I see it, Unity, Juju, Ubuntu Touch and Mir are interesting projects
that students would enjoy contributing to, and they are all projects
that students would be best equipped to work on with Ubuntu as the
mentoring organization. And, of course, there are many more where those
came from! I already mentioned that there are many lovely benefits for
the students and for Ubuntu, and I'll also point out that this is a way
to really expand on the community-friendly nature of those projects. I
think it would be amazing if we could make that happen.

So, this is where you come in! Do you have an idea for a project that we
could empower a student to work on over the summer? Are you interested
in mentoring one of those talented and motivated students? Either way,
you're welcome to add what you see fit to our list of ideas and mentors:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GoogleSoC2013/Ideas.

Thank you,
Dylan McCall

>From the top of my head, the following topics w.r.t. Mir might make good
candidates for GSoC:

 * Behavior driven testing: Pick up Robert Carr's work on Cucumber-based
testing approaches, enhance it and potentially make it reusable by Unity.
 * Integrate Mir with a performance-metrics collection system (either
Performance CoPilot or collectd) and capture a set of pre-defined
metrics for our CI and/or Autolanding scenarios.
 * Provide a Mir-backend for SDL (2.0).
 * Provide a Mir-backend for GTK 3.

What do you think? Makes sense? Any additions?

Thanks,

  Thomas