IRC Channel

#fedora-commops

Web page

CommOps Wiki

Mentor(s)

* Remy DeCausemaker (decause)

* Corey Sheldon (linux-modder)

Notes

The rise of DevOps has been swift. Sysadmins are increasingly instrumenting and integrating automated systems to stand up and maintain their infrastructure. This same approach can be taken to support community infrastructure in a distributed and automated fashion, that doesn’t force people to choose between using their precious volunteer time to "build things" or "build communities that build things." The community operations team works across numerous technologies, and interest areas in Fedora, including Messaging, Storytelling, Fedora Badges, Fedora Hubs, Wiki, Culture, Metrics, Voting, and other miscellaneous topics. It is important to note that CommOps team members are generalists, and the strengths and interests of individual applicants will determine the precise nature of your work. Enthusiasm for FOSS culture and community organization, and effective communication skills are most important. Specific deliverables can include automated metrics gathering, real-time messaging integration with Fedora hubs, and other big-data analysis and visualization. Tools are primarily written in python, and utilize libraries such as fedmsg, numpy, pandas, pygals, flask, sqlalchemy. We also leverage other web technologies like HTML5 and Javascript, and frameworks such as bootstrap and handlebars to deliver these metrics.

Your internship with this project could also involve any or all of the following:

* Web testing and bug reporting / triaging * Content development and syndication * Writing for the web and print * Collaboration with Fedora Council and Leadership on Project Objectives and Initiatives * Volunteer Coordination and Organizing * Campaign development and implementation * Advocacy and Messaging

Required:

* Effective Communication Skills; written and verbal, synchronous and asynchronous. * Passion for Free/Open Source Software and Free Culture * Self-directed and Curious nature * Experience writing for the web (Content only is ok, HTML/CSS even better) * Experience publishing and/or syndicating content via Social Media * Experience working in teams, or community organizing * Basic Web development/design skills

Bonus Skills:

* Basic multimedia development skills * Sysadmin/Devops skills * programming/scripting skills

IRC Channel

#fedora-hubs

Web page

* Fedora Infrastructure Team * Fedora Hubs Wiki

Mentor(s)

* Luke Macken (lmacken) * Remy DeCausemaker (decause) * Corey Sheldon (linux-modder)

Notes

Fedora has been in the process of creating a new web presence for all of the Fedora users, subprojects, and communities. We also plan to integrate some of the features of this system with the prototype of the Fedora Developer Portal, which is targeted at helping general developers use Fedora. While the Hubs project itself is aimed at Fedora contributor circles, the reusable features will allow the Portal to use this work to speak to general developers who may not have an interest in working in the Fedora community, but want to connect with community members for advice, best practices, or to generate interest in their upstream project.

Several of the principal app developers in the Fedora Engineering team will be working together with you on this project during the GSoC term. You’ll participate directly with team members daily on core features of Hubs as well as integration with the Portal. This is a great opportunity both for regular mentorship and for being deeply involved in an exciting and fast-moving project with the Fedora team.

Working on this project could involve any of the following:

* Adding new features to the web frontend * Adding new capabilities to the backend * Writing and deploying new widgets * Triaging and processing new widget ideas submitted by the community at large. * Implementing existing (and thoroughly detailed) mockups from previous UI/UX interns and team members.

Skills:

* HTML/Javascript/CSS * Basic Python a plus * Bonus: Experience with Bootstrap, jinja templates, Fedmsg, datanommer/grepper, or other fedora infrastructure projects a HUGE plus.

When applying to this project, it may be useful to review the designers' blogs about the projects' design here:

Fedora Developer Portal

* http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2015/09/15/fedora-developer-website-design/

Fedora Hubs

* http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/category/fedora-hubs * https://meghanrichardson.wordpress.com/

A video overview of the Hubs project is available here: http://blog.linuxgrrl.com/2015/07/01/fedora-hubs-update/

IRC Channel

#fedora-apps

Web page

Pagure project

Mentor(s)

Pierre-Yves Chibon (pingou)

Notes

Pagure is a forge written in python and offering the possibility of self-hosting projects while still using the now well-know fork and pull-request contribution model. While being similar to other forge such as GitHub or GitLab it is also pretty different for example it does not namespace projects under usernames with the idea that projects should not belong to a single person but to a community.

Your internship with this project could also involve any or all of the following:

* Web testing and bug reporting / triaging * Content development and syndication * Participating in the effort to make of pagure the official front-end to Fedora’s packages git repositories (currently being the read-only cgit) * Implementing private projects in pagure * Figuring out how/if pagure can be a front-end for Fedora’s git repo now that they are namespaced (to offer more than just rpms, for example docker containers)

Required:

* Effective Communication Skills; written and verbal, synchronous and asynchronous. * Passion for Free/Open Source Software and Free Culture * Self-directed and Curious nature * Experience with Flask, javascript and HTML * Experience with git * Sysadmin/Devops skills

Bonus Skills:

* Previous experience with Pagure * Experience with developing APIs and CLIs using it

IRC Channel

#atomic

Web page

ProjectAtomic.io

Mentor(s)

* Colin Walters (walters) * Giuseppe Scrivano (gscrivano)

Notes

* Next generation super-privileged containers: Improve building, managing, and updating these container images]

Difficulty: Advanced

Required skills:

* C programming * Python programming * Docker and/or runC experience

Bonus Skills:

* Golang programming * SELinux knowledge

Expected outcomes

* Implement ability for user to install flannel, etcd, and other bootstrap containers and manage them easily * New super-priv containers are accepted into planned design of Atomic Host * Learn how container security works * Learn advanced SELinux hackery * Learn how to manage container dependances

IRC Channel

#atomic

Web page

ProjectAtomic.io

Mentor(s)

* Colin Walters (walters) * Giuseppe Scrivano (gscrivano)

Notes

* Atomic Host package layering: Improve the package layering design, support more RPMs, ensure %post scripts are safe, etc.]

Required:

* C programming * Fedora or other Linux

Bonus Skills:

* Knowledge of RPM packaging * Experience working in Linux distributions

Libraries and Software:

* rpm-ostree, libhif

Difficulty Level:

* Advanced

Expected outcomes

* Ability to layer debugging, bootstrap, and other packages * Learn how OStree images work * Learn packaging security practices and theory

IRC Channel

#atomic

Web page

ProjectAtomic.io

Mentor(s)

* Josh Berkus (jberkus) * Giuseppe Scrivano (gscrivano) * Corey Sheldon (linux-modder)

Notes

* Bootstrap with gpgcheck in kickstart: Add a way for importing a GPG key from the kickstart ostreesetup command before the download starts. "ostreesetup" is described here

Required:

* Ability to use kickstart images * Experience with virt helpful * Fedora or other Linux Experience

Libraries and Software:

* kickstart * gpg * virt * RPM-OStree

Difficulty Level:

* Intermediate

Expected outcomes

* Ability to kickstart atomic images with full gpg support working * Improved software supply chain hygiene for project atomic * Learning how secure provisioning works * Learning how to get code merged upstream

#atomic

Web page

ProjectAtomic.io

Mentor(s)

* Josh Berkus (jberkus) * Giuseppe Scrivano (gscrivano)

Notes

IRC Channel

#atomic

Web page

ProjectAtomic.io

Mentor(s)

Josh Berkus (jberkus)

Notes

* Support for end-of-life notification: Add support for having an end-of-life notification to inform users if a particular branch is not supported anymore.

Required:

* C programming experience * Fedora or other GNU/Linux Experience

Bonus Skills:

* Advanced C programming experience * experience with RPM packaging

Libraries and Software:

* rpm-ostree * atomic CLI

Difficulty Level:

* Novice

Expected outcomes

* rpm-ostree and atomic command output explaining when a version of an upgraded tree branch is end of life (EoL) * feature merged into future releases, and packaged for distribution * Learn how to work with upstreams and Linux distributions * Understand how EOL policies and lifecycles work

IRC Channel

#atomic

Web page

ProjectAtomic.io

Mentor(s)

Josh Berkus (jberkus)

Notes

* rpm-ostree operation history support: Add support for atomic history to display the transactions history. It should work in a similar way to yum history.

Required:

* C programming experience * Python Programming experience * Fedora or other GNU/Linux experience

Bonus Skills:

* Advanced C programming experience * Advanced Python programming experience * Ability to work with Upstreams

Difficulty Level:

* Intermediate

Expected outcomes

* Duplication of support for history in the atomic command, similar to "yum history" * Strong command history and output on the system, possibly in systemd journal

IRC Channel

#atomic

Web page

ProjectAtomic.io

Mentor(s)

* Josh Berkus (jberkus) * Giuseppe Scrivano (giuseppe)

Notes

* Support metalink for OSTree: Add support for metalink files and support downloads from a list of mirrors and fetch objects from multiple sources.

Required:

* C programming experience * Metalink experience * Experience working with RPM packaging

Bonus Skills:

* Advanced C programming experience * Ability to work with Upstreams

Difficulty Level:

* Intermediate

Expected outcomes

* Ability to use a list of mirrors for OSTree upgrade * Ability to fetch trees in parallel

IRC Channel

#atomic

Web page

ProjectAtomic.io

Mentor(s)

* Josh Berkus (jberkus) * Giuseppe Scrivano (giuseppe)

Notes

* Drop privileges for HTTP fetches: The HTTP fetcher code is running in the same process of OSTree. Move the HTTP fetcher code to another process with less privileges than the main process.

Required:

* C programming experience * SELinux knowledge

Bonus Skills:

* Advanced C programming experience * libsoup experience helpful * Advanced SELinux Experience * Ability to work with Upstreams

Difficulty Level:

* Intermediate

Expected outcomes

* OSTree uses a different process for fetching data over HTTP * Main OSTree process communicates through Inter Process Communication (IPC) with fetcher process * Fetcher confined to write-only in a temporary file

IRC Channel

#atomic

Web page

ProjectAtomic.io

Mentor(s)

* Josh Berkus (jberkus) * Giuseppe Scrivano (giuseppe) * Corey Sheldon (linux-modder)

Notes

* Support kpatch: Support live update for the kernel without rebooting or restarting any processes.

Required:

* C programming experience * Python programming experience * Basic knowledge of D-Bus

Bonus Skills:

* Advanced C programming experience * Advanced Python programming experience * Advanced knowledge of D-Bus * Familiarity with kpatch

Difficulty Level:

* Intermediate

Expected outcomes

* Partial live update feature integrated into Fedora Atomic Host * Learn to implement live kernel update * Learn to work with upstream project integration * Understand RPM-OSTree packaging and images

IRC Channel

#atomic

Web page

ProjectAtomic.io

Mentor(s)

* Colin Walters (walters) * Giuseppe Scrivano (giuseppe)

Notes

* https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree/issues/177: implement a service that automatically upgrades the system when a new image is available. If the system is not restarting correctly, the rollback to the previous working version.

Required:

* C programming experience * Python programming experience * Basic knowledge of systemd * Ability to create and run VMs.

Bonus Skills:

* Advanced C programming experience * Advanced Python programming experience * Familiarity with RPM packaging

Difficulty Level:

* Intermediate

Expected outcomes

* Automated updates integrated into Fedora Atomic Host * Learn how RPM-OStree packaging and images work * Develop ability to contribute to Atomic Host

IRC Channel

#cockpit

Webpage

http://cockpit-project.org

Mentor(s)

* Dominik Perpeet (dperpeet) * Peter Volpe (petervo)

Notes

* Systemd provides timers for calendar time events and monotonic time events (http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.timer.html, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Timers). A major component of the Fedora Server is the Cockpit Project, a web-based management console for servers.

* Some designs for timers in Cockpit exist at https://trello.com/c/1B2lZViZ/74-timers-and-cron.

Required:

* JavaScript (ideally jQuery) * Fedora or other Linux

Bonus Skills:

* Familiarity with D-BUS * Familiarity with Python (2.7) * Experience working in Linux distributions

Libraries and Software:

* cockpit (http://cockpit-project.org/)

Difficulty Level:

* Beginner to intermediate

Expected outcomes

* A user of the Cockpit UI is able to view existing timers, edit existing ones or create new timers while providing the minimum set of necessary information to the UI * The UI optionally allows more advanced settings to be selected * Functionality of added features is tested via unit and/or integration tests

IRC Channel

#cockpit

Web page

http://cockpit-project.org

Mentor(s)

* Dominik Perpeet (dperpeet) * Peter Volpe (petervo)

Notes

* Cockpit provides an interface for updating the installed software on Atomic systems using rpm-ostree. Admins should be able to examine the OSTree repos enabled on a machine, and add/edit/remove them via Cockpit.

Required:

* JavaScript (ideally angular) * Fedora or other Linux

Bonus Skills:

* Familiarity with D-BUS * Familiarity with Python (2.7) * Familiarity with OSTree * Experience working in Linux distributions

Libraries and Software:

* cockpit (http://cockpit-project.org/) * rpm-ostree (https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree)

Difficulty Level:

* Beginner to intermediate

Expected outcomes

* A user of the Cockpit UI is able to examine the OSTree repos enabled on a machine, and add/edit/remove them. * Functionality of added features is tested via unit and/or integration tests

IRC Channels

#cockpit

Webpage

http://cockpit-project.org

Mentor(s)

* Dominik Perpeet (dperpeet) * Peter Volpe (petervo)

Notes

* Cockpit provides an interface for updating the installed software on Atomic systems using rpm-ostree. Admins should be able to 'rebase' to a different operating system channel or timeline via Cockpit.

Required:

* JavaScript (ideally angular) * Fedora or other Linux

Bonus Skills:

* Familiarity with D-BUS * Familiarity with Python (2.7) * Familiarity with OSTree * Experience working in Linux distributions

Libraries and Software:

* cockpit (http://cockpit-project.org/) * rpm-ostree (https://github.com/projectatomic/rpm-ostree)

Difficulty Level:

* Beginner to intermediate

Expected outcomes

* A user of the Cockpit UI is able to be able to 'rebase' to a different operating system channel or timeline via Cockpit. * Functionality of added features is tested via unit and/or integration tests

IRC Channel

#cockpit

Webpage

http://cockpit-project.org

Mentor(s)

* Dominik Perpeet (dperpeet) * Peter Volpe (petervo)

Notes

* FreeIPA is a domain and directory server. This task implements a UI for setting it up.

* The Rolekit Project provides a platform API for deploying Server Roles such as FreeIPA onto a system. Currently, it supports creating a Domain Controller (based on FreeIPA) or a Database Server (based on PostgreSQL). A major component of the Fedora Server is the Cockpit Project, a web-based management console for servers. The goal of this effort would be to enhance the Cockpit UI so that an administrator could deploy the FreeIPA role.

* Some designs for rolekit integration into Cockpit exist at https://trello.com/c/7CZqL9AQ/54-rolekit-integration-for-domain-controller.

Required:

* JavaScript (ideally jQuery) * Fedora or other Linux

Bonus Skills:

* Familiarity with D-BUS * Familiarity with Python (2.7) * Experience working in Linux distributions * Domain or directory experience

Libraries and Software:

* cockpit (http://cockpit-project.org/) * FreeIPA (https://www.freeipa.org/page/Main_Page) * Rolekit (https://fedorahosted.org/rolekit/)

Difficulty Level:

* Intermediate

Expected outcomes

* A user of the Cockpit UI is able to deploy a Domain Controller while providing the minimum set of necessary information to the UI * The UI allows more advanced settings to be selected * The UI also provides a link post-deployment that allows the user to browse to the Domain Controller administration UI

IRC Channel

#fedora-docs

Webpage

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs_Project

Mentor(s)

Zach Oglesby (zoglesby)

Notes

The Fedora community produces a variety of content suitable for user reference. Members of the Fedora Project produce documentation in a variety of ways - manpages and code comments from developers, system architecture design and best practices reference material from the infra team; application design, interface design, microservices, buildfarms and more. All at work meeting the needs of a transparent organization built on open source technologies and open development practices.

Anerist is intended to consume reference materials, in whatever format they are discovered in, and render them to produce a neatly indexed html site with a common style and theme. To alleviate manual effort in this conversion process, and in the process of 'cycling' translations, the application is event driven, with content regenerated on each change of the sources using CICD technologies. This design relies on modularized conversion tools, which also allows for programmatically generated content and drop-in custom views of technologies or infrastructure.

We need your help to build this framework. You’ll use python, bootstrap, buildbot, fedmsg, git, and more.

Your internship with this project could also involve any or all of the following:

* Exposure to content development workflows. * Mentoring from seasoned sysadmins, veteran technical writers, and free software advocates. * Learning the Open Source Way, the practice of transparent positive collaboration that forms bedrock of Fedora’s Foundations. *

Required:

* general python skills * experience with generating and rendering ReStructuredText * familiarity with DocBook, or other structured contextual XML. * familiarity with Jenkins, buildbot, or similar buildsystems

Bonus Skills:

* UX Design experience * Free software advocacy * Extended community participation * Ownership of amusing hats