From mmeffie@sinenomine.net Fri Oct 3 15:46:52 2025 From: mmeffie@sinenomine.net (Michael Meffie) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2025 10:46:52 -0400 Subject: [OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS Google Summer of Code 2025 Thank You Message-ID: <20251003104652.460a70b94b2792eb7eb627c4@sinenomine.net> Hello All, The OpenAFS Google Summer of Code 2025 projects have been completed and I wanted to send a belated thank you to everyone involved this year. The final reports are available at https://www.openafs.org/gsoc/2025/ Tejas Sonawane (https://github.com/ts-31/) completed a basic GNOME Shell Extension to provide a user-friendly interface for starting and stopping an installed OpenAFS client on systemd-based systems. The code is available in a new public repository on GitHub: https://github.com/openafs-contrib/gnome-shell-extension-openafs Sushil Pandey (https://contactsushil.medium.com/) researched how the OpenAFS Linux kernel module could be converted from legacy single pages to large page folios. This project involved making experimental changes, researching the modern Linux VFS interfaces, uncovering the scope of the changes and the requirements of the disk cache filesystem needed to support large folios. Sushil has expressed interest in continuing to be involved with the OpenAFS project and the transition to large folios. It was a pleasure to work with Tejas and Sushil over the summer and I do hope they will be able to continue to be involved and hope the very best for them in the future. I would like to thank Cheyenne Wills and Gaurav Saxena for their time and support in mentoring and providing feedback before and during the coding sessions. Thank you David Botsch for being our Organization Administrator. Your time, effort, and encouragement behind the scenes made it possible for OpenAFS to continue our Goggle Summer of Code participation. And thank you to everyone that took the time to submit proposals in 2025. We had a large number of excellent proposals and it was very much appreciated. We will continue to update the GSoC project ideas (https://www.openafs.org/gsoc/project-ideas.html) in anticipation for 2026. Best regards, Mike -- Michael Meffie