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

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2013-04-26 at 14:24 -0400, Pavel Simerda wrote:
> ----- 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.

I actually updated the TODO file's Proxy section a couple weeks ago with
a suggested approach.  I think NM should expose any relevant proxy
details that it gets, either from the Connection, or from DHCP for WPAD,
and then the userspace proxy library that cares (libproxy, pacrunner,
GNOME, etc) can do what it wants to with that.  I don't think NM should
be doing any of the PAC lookups or stuff like that, since the
aforementioned libraries/tools are already doing that.

Dan

> 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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