svn commit: r42691 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status

Mon Sep 23 17:54:16 UTC 2013

Author: pgj
Date: Mon Sep 23 17:54:16 2013
New Revision: 42691
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/42691

Log:
  - Add Q3 report entry on the Intelligent Download Service Manager GSoC project
  
  Submitted by:	Ambarisha Bhatlapenumarthi <b.ambarisha at gmail.com>

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml	Mon Sep 23 17:48:31 2013	(r42690)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2013-07-2013-09.xml	Mon Sep 23 17:54:16 2013	(r42691)
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
     <!-- XXX: keep updating the number of entries -->
     <p>Thanks to all the reporters for the excellent work!  This report
-      contains 8 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
+      contains 9 entries and we hope you enjoy reading it.</p>
 
     <!-- XXX: set date for the next set of submissions -->
     <p>The deadline for submissions covering between October and
@@ -56,6 +56,12 @@
     <description>Documentation</description>
   </category>
 
+  <category>
+    <name>soc</name>
+
+    <description>Google Summer of Code</description>
+  </category>
+
   <project cat='kern'>
     <title>AES-NI Improvements for GELI</title>
 
@@ -401,4 +407,61 @@
       <task>Test 10.0-CURRENT and report problems.</task>
     </help>
   </project>
+
+  <project cat='soc'>
+    <title>Download Manager Service for the Ports Collection</title>
+
+    <contact>
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Ambarisha</given>
+	  <common>Bhatlapenumarthi</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>ambarisha at freebsd.org</email>
+      </person>
+
+      <person>
+	<name>
+	  <given>Xin</given>
+	  <common>Li</common>
+	</name>
+	<email>delphij at freebsd.org</email>
+      </person>
+    </contact>
+
+    <links>
+      <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2013/IntellegentDownloadManager">Project wiki page</url>
+      <url href="https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage/IDMS">More information on DMS</url>
+    </links>
+
+    <body>
+      <p>This is a Google Summer of Code 2013 project that aims to
+	replace the <tt>fetch(1)</tt>-based method for getting
+	distribution files, such as source tarballs, for the third-party
+	applications (ports) with an intelligent Download Manager
+	Service (see links for more information).</p>
+
+      <p>All the modules highlighted in the project wiki have been
+	completed (see links).  Specifically:</p>
+
+      <ul>
+	<li>A service which receives and serves download requests.  It
+	  samples download speeds from different mirrors and uses this
+	  information to pick the best mirror on the next request.  It
+	  can migrate jobs between mirrors if it realizes that a
+	  complete download from a different mirror would be faster than
+	  proceeding with the mirror it is currently using.</li>
+
+	<li>A status dump feature has also been added to the client
+	  (<tt>dmget</tt>) which dumps the information about active
+	  downloads, speeds from mirrors, etc.</li>
+      </ul>
+    </body>
+
+    <help>
+      <task>The implementation (especially job migration and dumping
+	status) has not been tested thoroughly.  Test the code, write more
+	unit and regression tests.</task>
+    </help>
+  </project>
 </report>
