[OpenAFS-devel] OpenAFS Google Summer of Code 2025 Thank You

[Michael Meffie]

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


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Michael Meffie <mmeffie@sinenomine.net>