interested in working on freeBSD

[Alfred Perlstein]

* Sanket Somnath Hase <sanket at cmu.edu> [070924 01:29] wrote:
> Hi Matt , 
> 
> We are graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University. We are enrolled in
> a course (Operating systems practicum http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/ ) which
> involves hands-on experience with operating-system code as it is developed
> and deployed in the real world. Murray Stokley referred us to you.
> 
> We were thinking of contibuting to FreeBSD.We read through the description of your project "Rewrite the in-kernel file system syncer" and found it interesting.Could you let us know the status of this project? It will be great if you could mention some related readings.
>    
> We have already taken an operating system design and implementation class
> (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~410/ ) before where we developed a UNIX like
> kernel from scratch. We have fair experience in reading-coding-debugging
> kernel code. All three of us interned at core systems group at companies
> like Google and Oracle in the past summer.
>    
> Our team can invest 30 hours per week, for a period of 12 weeks of this
> Fall semester. We are wondering if we can contribute to FreeBSD.
> It will be great if you could give us some pointers towards such work.

Two projects come to mind:

Fixing up the nfs lockd.
Finishing the autofs filesystem.

If this is interesting I can help you guys out.