NetBSD and Google Summer of Code
After participating in the Google Summer of Code program for
2005 and
2006,
NetBSD has many reasons to be proud. Most of their
students are still active contributors. Several have had their code integrated into NetBSD's
releases. On top of all of that, the project gained three new committers.
Alan Ritter worked with NetBSD
during GSoC 2005 to
port the
NDIS driver from FreeBSD to NetBSD. He continued to work on his GSoC project after
the program ended for the year, and he later
imported his
code into NetBSD's source tree on March 30, 2006. He became a developer in
April
2006.
Arnaud Degroote's GSoC 2006 project to add
ipv6 support to the Fast_ipsec
stack will be imported into NetBSD's source tree soon. As a result of his work
during GSoC, Arnaud is one of NetBSD's
newest developers.
Ruibiao Qiu's 2005
GSoC
project to
implement wide character support in NetBSD's curses library will also be integrated into
NetBSD's source tree shortly. Ruibiao became a
developer
for the project in January 2006.
For more information on all things
NetBSD & GSoC, check out NetBSD's roundup posts for
2005
and
2006. Congratulations to NetBSD's students and mentors for their
tremendous success, and thanks to NetBSD for joining us for the two years of the Google Summer
of Code.
