[gentoo-soc] GSoC 2013: Improved Gentoo cloud support

[gentoo-soc] GSoC 2013: Improved Gentoo cloud support

[Devan Franchini]

Hello fellow GSoC'ers!

      My name is Devan Franchini, I'm a student at D'youville college,
in Buffalo NY, where I am working on getting my bachelors degree in
Information Technology under the study of Anthony Basile. I would like
to work on the suggested project of improving Gentoo cloud support.
This will require things such as adding support for creating AWS
images for Gentoo into catalyst. In order to do that I'll need to
learn to work with tools such as veewee and Vagrant, to allow building
a pristine build of Gentoo which can then be distributed as AWS
images. Once this is accomplished I can then implement that process
into catalyst. This is useful because once this is implemented you can
create images of Gentoo that can distributed through the cloud.

About me:
========

      I'm from Tampa Florida but I have spent most of my childhood and
life in Buffalo, NY where I am now. I love learning about the awesome
things you can do with computers and the capabilities of finding new
things, and fixing old ones. To me, knowledge is king and the most
important thing. So when I have an experience where I can learn
something I find interesting I typically have tunnel vision until I
accomplish my goal. I am familiar with Java, python, and C; as well as
some x86_64 and MIPS assembly. During my spare time I usually try and
get something productive done such as bug fixes on the webapp-config
package that Gentoo uses or writing ebuilds for packages that I use
that aren't on the portage tree, such as Dolphin Emulator. The
webapp-config program is used to set up web applications on Gentoo
systems using portage and Dolphin Emulator is a gamecube and Wii
emulator. This will be my second proposal for Google Summer of Code.
My previous one was the SELinux Policy Originator that I worked on
under the guidance of Sven Vermeulen. During my last GSoC I immersed
myself in the world of Gentoo Linux. I was unfamiliar with the entire
OS and how it worked; or how to even install it. Since then I have
learned a lot about Gentoo and plan on working to become a Gentoo
developer.

Contact information:
===============

Email: twitch153@hotmail.com

IRC: NICK: twitch153, and I am typically in #gentoo-hardened and #gentoo-soc

Phone Number: (716)605-3049*

Address:

38 East End Avenue

Buffalo, NY, 14225

*Please only use this as a last resort method when you need to get in
contact with me.

Re: [gentoo-soc] GSoC 2013: Improved Gentoo cloud support

[Rich Freeman]

On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Devan Franchini <oot153@gmail.com> wrote:
>       My name is Devan Franchini, I'm a student at D'youville college,
> in Buffalo NY, where I am working on getting my bachelors degree in
> Information Technology under the study of Anthony Basile. I would like
> to work on the suggested project of improving Gentoo cloud support.
> This will require things such as adding support for creating AWS
> images for Gentoo into catalyst. In order to do that I'll need to
> learn to work with tools such as veewee and Vagrant, to allow building
> a pristine build of Gentoo which can then be distributed as AWS
> images. Once this is accomplished I can then implement that process
> into catalyst. This is useful because once this is implemented you can
> create images of Gentoo that can distributed through the cloud.

I think a catalyst-based approach would be cleaner, but feel free to
make use of the AWS bootstrap scripts at:
https://github.com/rich0/rich0-gentoo-bootstrap - branch rich0-changes.

The original scripts are by Eric Dowd, and I've been tweaking them to
make them a bit more flexible (he's merged back a number of these
changes).  I'll warn you that they're a bit prone to failure depending
on the state of the tree, but for the most part these are only
failures that any unfortunate soul trying to install Gentoo for the
first time would run into.  Old stage3s tend to be the biggest source
of problems, and integrating this into catalyst would fix that.

Rich

Re: [gentoo-soc] GSoC 2013: Improved Gentoo cloud support

[Devan Franchini]

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Funny enough, I already had your link saved in my bookmarks so I could
start with that in my process of understanding how it all works, then
trying to implement it into catalyst. Thanks :)

Devan Franchini
On May 5, 2013 8:11 PM, "Rich Freeman" <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Devan Franchini <oot153@gmail.com> wrote:
> >       My name is Devan Franchini, I'm a student at D'youville college,
> > in Buffalo NY, where I am working on getting my bachelors degree in
> > Information Technology under the study of Anthony Basile. I would like
> > to work on the suggested project of improving Gentoo cloud support.
> > This will require things such as adding support for creating AWS
> > images for Gentoo into catalyst. In order to do that I'll need to
> > learn to work with tools such as veewee and Vagrant, to allow building
> > a pristine build of Gentoo which can then be distributed as AWS
> > images. Once this is accomplished I can then implement that process
> > into catalyst. This is useful because once this is implemented you can
> > create images of Gentoo that can distributed through the cloud.
>
> I think a catalyst-based approach would be cleaner, but feel free to
> make use of the AWS bootstrap scripts at:
> https://github.com/rich0/rich0-gentoo-bootstrap - branch rich0-changes.
>
> The original scripts are by Eric Dowd, and I've been tweaking them to
> make them a bit more flexible (he's merged back a number of these
> changes).  I'll warn you that they're a bit prone to failure depending
> on the state of the tree, but for the most part these are only
> failures that any unfortunate soul trying to install Gentoo for the
> first time would run into.  Old stage3s tend to be the biggest source
> of problems, and integrating this into catalyst would fix that.
>
> Rich
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-soc] GSoC 2013: Improved Gentoo cloud support

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 05/05/2013 08:14 PM, Devan Franchini wrote:
> Funny enough, I already had your link saved in my bookmarks so I could
> start with that in my process of understanding how it all works, then
> trying to implement it into catalyst. Thanks :)
>
> Devan Franchini
> On May 5, 2013 8:11 PM, "Rich Freeman" <rich0@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Devan Franchini <oot153@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>        My name is Devan Franchini, I'm a student at D'youville college,
>>> in Buffalo NY, where I am working on getting my bachelors degree in
>>> Information Technology under the study of Anthony Basile. I would like
>>> to work on the suggested project of improving Gentoo cloud support.
>>> This will require things such as adding support for creating AWS
>>> images for Gentoo into catalyst. In order to do that I'll need to
>>> learn to work with tools such as veewee and Vagrant, to allow building
>>> a pristine build of Gentoo which can then be distributed as AWS
>>> images. Once this is accomplished I can then implement that process
>>> into catalyst. This is useful because once this is implemented you can
>>> create images of Gentoo that can distributed through the cloud.
>> I think a catalyst-based approach would be cleaner, but feel free to
>> make use of the AWS bootstrap scripts at:
>> https://github.com/rich0/rich0-gentoo-bootstrap - branch rich0-changes.
>>
>> The original scripts are by Eric Dowd, and I've been tweaking them to
>> make them a bit more flexible (he's merged back a number of these
>> changes).  I'll warn you that they're a bit prone to failure depending
>> on the state of the tree, but for the most part these are only
>> failures that any unfortunate soul trying to install Gentoo for the
>> first time would run into.  Old stage3s tend to be the biggest source
>> of problems, and integrating this into catalyst would fix that.
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
Hi guys, Devan is my student at D'Youville college.  I'm interested in 
this project too.  Is it possible for me to co-mentor it?  I think 
Donnie proposed it, but I could spend some time on it too.

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