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

[Pavel Simerda <psimerda redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Williams" <dcbw redhat com>
> To: "Hedayat Vatankhah" <hedayatv gmail com>
> Cc: networkmanager-list gnome org
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 7:54:25 PM
> Subject: Re: Any volunteers for becoming a GSoC co-mentor for proxy   integration project?
>
> 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.

If we have a common understanding of how that should work (question more on dcbw), I could provide some help, 
whether being a co-mentor or not.

Pavel
 
> 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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