FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!

[dweimer]

On 2012-10-22 12:44, Wojciech A. Koszek wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 10:19:57AM +0000, Wojciech A. Koszek wrote:
>> (cross-posted message; please keep discussion on freebsd-hackers@)
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Last year FreeBSD qualified for Google Code-In 2011 event--contest 
>> for
>> youngest open-source hackers in 13-17yr age range:
>>
>> 	http://www.google-melange.com/gci/homepage/google/gci2012
>>
>> It was successful. We gained one more FreeBSD developer thanks to 
>> that
>> (Isabell Long) We're pondering participating in the contest this 
>> year as
>> well.
>>
>> For now we only have 25 ideas. We need at least 100.
>>
>> I felt all members of the FreeBSD community should help, so please 
>> submit
>> your own Google Code-In 2012 ideas here:
>>
>> 	http://www.emailmeform.com/builder/form/4aU93Obxo4NYdVAgb1
>>
>> Examples of previously completed tasks:
>>
>> 	http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2011Tasks
>>
>> Those of you who have Wiki access, please spent 2 more minutes and 
>> submit
>> straight to Wiki:
>>
>> 	http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2012Tasks
>>
>> I plan to send out next e-mail if there's any progress on this 
>> project.
>>
>> Help will be appreciated.
>>
>
> Update:
>
> It looks pretty bad so far. Page:
>
> 	http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2012Tasks
>
> Has 38 tasks so far out of which:
>
> 	~30 would qualify.
>
> Consider this e-mail to be the last call for action. Otherwise we'll 
> have to
> pull back and concentrate our efforts on GSOC instead.

One thing I can think to add if it's not already been done and if its a 
practical idea for the Google project, would be to update the mount_udf 
command to support newer versions of UDF. It looks like as of FreeBSD 7 
that 1.02 & 1.50 are supported, I( haven't been able to find any more 
recent documentation to support whether or not updates have been made 
since then.

I only know that server I have running 9.0, for the purpose of hosting 
ISO images on the network so they are available to our ESX environment 
for mounting as a local CDROM/DVD within virtual machines, and also 
available as files over a network share, can't mount the some of the 
more recent DVDs in the UDF format, but I am unsure which format they 
are in, they could be 2.0, 2.5, or 2.6.

-- 
Thanks,
    Dean E. Weimer
    http://www.dweimer.net/