Development of Samba

[Matthias Dieter Wallnöfer]

Hi Karol,

Karol Pysniak wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to develop SAMBA project as my contribution to Google
> Summer of Code. I have been using SAMBA for a few years now and, hence,
> I have a few ideas how to develop SAMBA. I am a computing student which
> will definitely help me make my ideas come true :) What should I do to
> join the project?
>    
we have always plenty of work to be done ;) . Well, to be more serious: 
first you have to decide on which subproject to work on. As you may know 
SAMBA 3 and SAMBA 4 are separate projects with quite some differences. 
So first you have to decide between them.
> Some of my ideas involve, for instance, creating advanced Graphical User
> Interface for SAMBA. It could be as easy as to let any non-experienced
> user to start using SAMBA, but the Interface would involve all options
> which could be used by advanced users.
>    
Generally we are less interested in graphical development but more in 
the "real" server programming. As an idea of possible tasks consider 
this page: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/SoC/Ideas. If you 
nevertheless would like to work with GUIs I suggest either SWAT (for 
SAMBA 3) or SWAT2 (for SAMBA 4). For SWAT I don't know the real 
maintainer (just ask on the list) and for SWAT2 you should contact 
Jelmer (Vernooij).
> I can program in Java/C/C++/Haskell/Assembler (IA-32).
>    
The majority of the code is written in plain C and parts of SAMBA 4 in 
Python.

Greets,
Matthias