GSOC 2015 Monkey HTTP Server

[Gedare Bloom]

On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 11:39 AM, Sujay Raj <sujayraaj at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well I started writing the first draft of the project proposal ( which
> I shall hopefully finish by tonight, Its 9 PM here ).
>
> I am making "porting the Monkey web server to RTEMS as well as a
> partial reorganization of the network stacks present in RTEMS to make
> it more modular", as the primary deliverable of this project.
>
> From what it appears, porting Monkey can be done in about a month + a
> week for any delays. The development environment is already set up and
> I am tweaking around with the code. So, by the mid-term evaluation I
> expect to get monkey working on RTEMS (without enough time for
> debugging).
>
What RTEMS target/BSP do you intend to use?

> For the second part, that is, getting the network stack of choice
> built from RSB for the applications to be built against, I am a bit
> apprehensive about the time limit. This task, at the first glance
> doesn't appear that difficult, but it might be. So the second half (
> till the final evaluation ) will involve getting the network stacks in
> a separate build + a separate package for network tests + debugging.
>
I think there is a lot of complexity here.

> I think debugging and testing will be a major part of the project.
>
Always.

> I was thinking along the lines, that the second part of the project
> should be done first, but as Joel pointed out, the first step should
> be monkey getting ported as a package.
>
I agree with Joel. The second part is harder to scope. It will be much
better for you to have a solid task and deliverable (port Monkey) for
the first-half.

> kindly point out any comments/suggestions.
>
Be sure you identify when and where you plan to submit code. We like
to see code pushed into RTEMS, and into upstream projects if needed,
throughout the summer, not just at the end.

>
>
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 6:27 AM, Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
>> On 20/03/2015 2:57 am, Eduardo Silva wrote:
>>>
>>> if there are some application for that project and some accepted
>>> student, I would be glad to sign as a mentor to cover Monkey specifics.
>>> Note: we will need a second mentor to cover RTEMS specifics,
>>
>>
>> I can help, after all you and I have talked about the work to be done
>> before.
>>
>> Chris
>>
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