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Subtle difference between FreeBSD, MacOSX and Linux printf

adam@koszek.com (Adam Koszek) — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 00:00:00 +0000

I’m working on polishing my mini_printf implementation and making a final, verified and documented code release, and the thing I made work in the past and something that stopped working when I moved to MacOSX was a randomized stress-test.

https://github.com/wkoszek/mini_printf

It’s pretty neat: it uses its own PRNG generator to achieve repeatability and uses its numbers to construct randomized format strings which are then played against OSes printf() and my mini_printf() API. Both versions are later compared. I exposed a lot of bugs in mini_printf that way, of which all have been fixed.

Google Summer of Code — how proposals are evaluated

adam@koszek.com (Adam Koszek) — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

In the previous post I explained the motivation behind GSoC and the state of things with regards to how it helps FreeBSD.

I guess I must explain a bit more on how GSOC proposal evaluations are done, since it can be not entirely clear to outsiders.

Introduction

Below you’ll find an insight on how the evaluation of Google Summer of Code took place for the FreeBSD project, but please not that people and projects vary in how they treat their students and participants. Having said that, over the years of GSoC participation I’ve had a chance to interact with other teams, and their experiences and the approach are similar to FreeBSD’s in how the communicate, help and judge students.

Google Summer of Code — my take

adam@koszek.com (Adam Koszek) — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

So it has been a week since I reviewed 32 Google Summer of Code proposals for FreeBSD. If you don’t know anything about it, try to see Google’s Google Summer of Code website. In short it’s a sponsored action that lets students spend their summer (8 weeks) hacking Open Source projects, learning new stuff, helping the community, growing as programmers and engineers and additionally – earning some additional money.

Organization gets $500 for accepted project. Students gets $5000 for accepted project. In the middle of the deadline (midterm) students receive 50% of their expected compensation: $2500. The rest comes at the end.