Gsoc 2009 is almost over !

As some of you may know the GSOC 2009 is going to be over. The code writing is over and some little formal things are remaining to pull the final trigger. As i posted in my previous posts i contributed to Func project this year as i did last year. Here are some of the items i added to Func that year :

• Facts Framework - a different way to query more things on minions at once
• Groups Api - new pluggable func groups api
• Grep Modules - Query modules for a proper pattern
• Real Time Output - Watch your minions output while they do their jobs.
• Progress Report - Get progress report of your minions easily.
• And many other small fixes and additions.

It was a great experience for me, thanks Func and of course many thanks to Google :) Probably that was my last GSOC and it was really fun to work on Open Source projects and get payed.

GSOC 2009 Again

Well i'm again in the Game :) That summer i will be working on my last year GSOC project FUNC again.Big Thanks to Adrian Alikins(my mentor) for choosing me again. And Bigger thanks to GOOGLE for paying us to do open source programming. If you hear for the first time FUNC,it is a great Remote management Framework for doing things reamotely easier. You can even open your shell and do management by playing with its Python API. My aim that time is to make that cool API even more cooler.Here is the list with ideas :

• Implementing Func Facts : Wouldnt it be cool to say func update machines that are ">f9" or list the machines with dual core cpus. That is what func facts claims to be an ORM like remote querying system.
• Implementing a Pluggable Connection Manager for Func :Well that is kind of hard one, currently he FUNC is using XML-RPC over SSL. The aim of that item is to make Func to support different connections by reading its conf files. The first connection to be implemented seems to be qpid/AMQP/qmf. After having the pluggable structure it will be easier to add different connections i hope.
• Structuring the Results : Currently FUNC recieves different kind of results in different formats. Having a way to query and process that result without too much loops will be realy great.

• Funcweb Development : Func has a Web interface fo doing all the stuff visually,so new features should be added to that cool app.

I hope to finish all the stuff succesfully again like last year. (INSH ;))