Re: Any volunteers for becoming a GSoC co-mentor for proxy integration project?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2013-04-18 at 01:00 +0430, Hedayat Vatankhah wrote:
> Dear all,
> I have proposed the integration of proxy settings into NetworkManager as 
> a GSoC project for Fedora[1]; which is in concept very similar to the 
> recent integration of firewalld and NeworkManager where different 
> firewall settings can be associated to each connection. More generally, 
> it is about having different "network profiles" for each connection. 
> Also, it suggests using DHCP information for wired connections to 
> distinguish between different wired connections (the same role that 
> ESSID plays for wireless connections).
> This year, there are several students interested in this idea, but it 
> doesn't have any mentors. I might be able to apply as a mentor, but I'm 
> not familiar with NetworkManager code base and therefore, I'm not very 
> suitable to be the mentor. So, I was suggested to see if there is 
> anybody from NM development team willing to be a co-mentor for this idea 
> so that (s)he can help with the mentoring. The other co-mentor would be 
> me. I am a developer so I will try to help as much as possible. Any 
> volunteers? :P

I can help with mentoring, but I probably don't have enough time to be
the only person mentoring a student.

Dan

> Regards,
> Hedayat
>
> [1] 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2013#Integrate_Proxy_Settings_and_Network_Connections.28Locations.29
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