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I want to develop something like this, improvments in network configuration. |
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But not only by NetworkManager, I also think about wicd or just some set of |
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shell scripts to easy connect/reconnect/chose network. Also, I think about |
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adding pptp support to wicd. But, i'm also interested in improving |
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NetworkManager. |
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P.S. With whom I can discuss possibility of doing it? |
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Artem Volkhin. |
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On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 7:56 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@g.o>wrote: |
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> Improve NetworkManager integration with Gentoo: |
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> People who use NetworkManager in Gentoo have found that it lives in an |
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> ecosystem of it's own, completely detached from the network |
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> configuration in Gentoo (/etc/conf.d/net, hostname, dns, etc). Due to |
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> these reasons, the init script has not even been made to "provide net" |
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> yet, which makes it quite useless out of the box. However, NM is an |
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> excellent tool, and the aim of this project would be to make it work |
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> properly in Gentoo. |
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> This mostly involves writing a NetworkManager plugin to read and write |
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> to Gentoo configuration files, and various other improvements to |
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> enhance integration. Creating a full list is left as an exercise for |
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> the applicant. |
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> |
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> Skills: |
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> *C |
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> *GObject C |
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> *Basic understanding of networking |
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> *Familiarity with network configurations and services in Gentoo |
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> That's essentially what I've put up on the wiki. Anyone who has used |
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> NetworkManager semi-seriously will agree with me that NM integration |
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> is quite shoddy in Gentoo because no one wrote a gentoo-specific |
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> plugin (like RH and Ubuntu did). Writing the plugin itself and making |
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> it work properly should not take more than a month (and a half?), and |
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> properly integrating NM with network services (reconfiguration/hup |
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> when new interfaces go up/down, etc) should take a few more weeks |
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> (mainly b/c we need to test against almost everything). |
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> I need help in adding a few more things to this project so that the |
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> student can be kept occupied for the entire duration of summer. Or is |
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> the amount of work sufficient? |
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> Also, please note that I will most likely not be able to mentor for |
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> this project, so if anyone is interested in mentoring, feel free to |
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> take over this ;) |
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> -- |
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> ~Nirbheek Chauhan |
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> Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team |
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