Re: Gsoc: choosing right project for hurd.

[Carl Fredrik Hammar]

Hi,

>   I dont know if this is the right list for this question. I apologize
> if it is the wrong forum.

No worries, this is the right one.  :-)

>  I am quite unsure which project to choose from the list. I originally
> applied for procfs project and i got a suggestion to apply for another
> project because procfs already has several applications. I think i can
> also work  on Convert Hurd Libraries and Servers to pthreads, GNU Mach
> Code Cleanup.

This mostly depends on your own preferences.  Both tasks require
similar skills, i.e. good knowledge of C and experience with large
code bases.  It boils down to if you want to take a tour of the Hurd
proper or Mach.

Others you might be interested in (given your initial choice), are
fixing tmpfs or nfs, or possibly implementing xmlfs.  The last two
require some domain specific knowledge though, but all of them mostly
involve learning how to write translators, like you would for procfs.

Regards,
  Fredrik