Congratulations to the following who were selected to work on
Samba projects as part of
Google's Summer of
Code. Samba had a total of 69 submitted proposals from 59 unique
individuals. From these, Google will fund 6 to work on Samba over the
months of July and August.
-
Brad Henry
- Write the regression tests necessary to implement
the Active Directory Synchronization protocol
between domain controllers.
- Mentors: Andrew Bartlett, Stefan Metzmacher
-
Kalim Moghul
- Write a new version of Samba 3.0's smbclient
on top of the libsmbclient API.
- Mentor: Jerry Carter
-
Chris Nicholls
- Implement an MS-RPC library that would allow
client applications to manage remote Windows
and Samba servers.
- Mentor: Jerry Carter
-
Amit Regmi
- Develop a server management framework written
in python for Samba 3.0 hosts.
- Mentor: Jerry Carter
-
Asser Femø
- Add support to the Linux CIFS kernel fs for
utilizing the DNOTIFY interface for file and
directory refresh.
- Mentor: Steve French
-
Jelmer Vernooij
- Add support to Samba 4.0 for upgrading configuration
settings and user/group accounts from Samba 3.0
installations.
- Mentor: Andrew Bartlett
We are really excited to have these new developers, even if only
for a few months. Look for them on the samba-technical mailing list
and IRC channel.
