Summer coding ideas for 2009

Other ideas that were incomplete or worth considering are found at Summer coding ideas for 2008.

Project name

Status:

Summary of idea:

Contacts:

Mentor(s):

Notes:

InstantMirror

Status: Proposed

Summary of idea: An simple HTTP proxy which caches a given class of files to disk, with the goal of making it trivial for Fedora users to create a mirror of Fedora packages for their local network.

Contacts: WarrenTogami

Mentor(s): Markmc, WarrenTogami?

Notes:

An idea proposed by WarrenTogami in the past, for more details see e.g.:

• IntelligentMirror
• https://fedorahosted.org/InstantMirror/wiki/InstantMirrorDaemon
• https://fedorahosted.org/InstantMirror/wiki
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-January/msg02361.html

Packages End User UI

Status: Proposed

Summary of idea: A User Interface to the PackageDB for end users to find and review packages

Contacts: Toshio Kuratomi

Mentor(s): Toshio Kuratomi

Notes: This idea has already been taken up and a more detailed proposal worked on by maploin. Details here:

• https://fedorahosted.org/packagedb/wiki/EndUserUI