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<p>The following is an outline of potential projects for those interested in
-working on Samba through Google's "Summer of Code" program. For more on that
-program see <a href="http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html">Google's
-overview</a>.</p>
+working on Samba through <a href="http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html">Google's
+"Summer of Code"</a> program.</p>
<p>This is just a holding area for project ideas. The projects listed here
-may be updated as developers refine a projet's outline.</p>
+may be updated as developers refine a projet's outline. Questions about
+Samba's participation in the program can be mailed to
+<a href="mailto:summercode@samba.org">summercode@samba.org</a>.</p>
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<table class="real">
- <tr><th>Project Infrastructure</th></tr>
- <tr><td>Develop a database back end for managing Samba support provider
- information listed at http://www.samba.org/samba/support/</td></tr>
-
- <tr><th>Linux CIFS FS</th></tr>
- <tr><td>Create a GUI for managing Linux cifs mounts and
- displaying /proc/fs/cifs statistics and mount status</td></tr>
- <tr><td>Create a common uid mapping mechanism for Linux
- nfs and cifs vfs clients, that can be configured to
- remap, on a particular mount on the client, the uids
- returned by the server to uids which would be valid on
- the client (or to a default if such uid does not exist)</td></tr>
- <tr><td>Finish the Linux cifs vfs change notification support
- by completing the D_NOTIFY fcntl mapping to the FindNotify
- mechanism supported by the CIFS protocol</td></tr>
-
<tr><th>Samba 3</th></tr>
<tr><td>Implement support for EMF print jobs</td></tr>
<tr><td>Finish off portions of the PDC<->BDC SAM replication</td></tr>
<tr><td>Develop more client tools</td></tr>
<tr><td>Add MS-DFS support to libsmbclient</td></tr>
<tr><td>Create a tool for monitoring the health of a Samba server</td></tr>
+ <tr><td>Implement a Samba 3 backend code generator for PIDL (from Samba 4)
+ in order to share IDL files between the two branches</td></tr>
<tr><th>Samba 4</th></tr>
- <tr><td>Implement the DsSync replication protocol and regression
- tests</td></tr>
+ <tr><td>Implement the DsSync replication protocol and regression tests</td></tr>
<tr><td>Implement the spoolss printing RPCs and regression tests</td></tr>
<tr><td>Help complete the sqlite3 backend for ldb.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Implement support for the CIFS unix extensions</td></tr>
+ <tr><td>Implement journaling support for the tdb database library
+ (code shared by Samba 3)</td></tr>
- <tr><th>Misc</th></tr>
- <tr><td>Implement journaling support for the tdb database library</td></tr>
+ <tr><th>Linux CIFS FS</th></tr>
+ <tr><td>Create a GUI for managing Linux cifs mounts and
+ displaying /proc/fs/cifs statistics and mount status</td></tr>
+ <tr><td>Create a common uid mapping mechanism for Linux
+ nfs and cifs vfs clients, that can be configured to
+ remap, on a particular mount on the client, the uids
+ returned by the server to uids which would be valid on
+ the client (or to a default if such uid does not exist)</td></tr>
+ <tr><td>Finish the Linux cifs vfs change notification support
+ by completing the D_NOTIFY fcntl mapping to the FindNotify
+ mechanism supported by the CIFS protocol</td></tr>
+
+ <tr><th>Project Infrastructure</th></tr>
+ <tr><td>Develop a database back end for managing Samba support provider
+ information listed at http://www.samba.org/samba/support/</td></tr>
</table>
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