I am very excited to announce that Jonathan Roes has successfully applied to the Google Summer of Code 2008 and will be working on netconf over this summer. With his help, I am confident that netconf 1.0 in Debian “lenny” is no longer a dream.

Jonathan is a soon-to-be computer science graduate from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and his application was (by far) the most convincing of the ten I received. He has several years of programming and Linux experience and it’s quite obvious that he has understood the philosophy of netconf.

I am looking forward to working with Jonathan!

NP: Underworld: Second Toughest of the Infants

If you care about netconf and wonder what’s the current status, you might want to ingest the status update I sent to the netconf-devel mailing list.

The most important point probably is: if you want to work on netconf, I’ll be readily available for questions on the mailing list, even though I cannot expend much time to hack myself over the next four months.

But I will consider coaching anyone who would like to contribute and wants to be coached in doing so. So don’t hesitate and let me know, and consider telling me a bit about what kind of projects you have worked on in the past.

NP: Mono: Under the Pipal Tree

This message just went out to the debian-devel mailinglist:

Even though I am still somewhat physically limited, my brain today decided to start on the netconf development. And since we all know that the waterfall model is the One True Model and that Extreme Programming no solution, I started by drafting a document, nothing formal, just thoughts on how to implement the various parts of netconf. And open questions I already know need to be answered.

I shall be posting this document to the netconf-devel mailing list sometime soon and am looking for comments (and answers and helpers). The purpose of this message is to get interested people to subscribe. Please do so that we can keep debian-devel free of this and so that I can get more feedback (and potentially help).

If you don’t know what I am talking about, check out the wiki page and slides from my last talk. Then subscribe.

Thanks for your attention; that is all.

NP: Trentemøller: The Last Resort