During the seven week time-frame for GCI, RTEMS Project had 39 students complete 265 tasks under the tutelage of 15 mentors. That is an average of over five tasks per day! Many new students to RTEMS completed the Getting Started with RTEMS task, which provided both useful feedback about new users interested in working with RTEMS and prepared the students for hands-on programming work with our systems. We are proud of the efforts and accomplishments of all the students and grateful to the Google Open Source Programs Office, our mentors, organization administrators, and the open source community that helped support them along the way.
Below are descriptions of some of the more notable accomplishments that the students achieved in each of the five task categories: Code, Documentation/Training, Outreach/Research, Quality Assurance, and User Interface.
Code
- C99 “restrict” keyword added to Newlib C Library for POSIX conformance.
- Ported the Rhealstone Benchmark to RTEMS, now available in testsuites/rhealstone.
- Refactored over a dozen BSPs to conform to guidelines determined by Vipul Nayyar’s GSoC 2013 project.
- Refactored portions of the monolithic sp09 test case into new, finer-grained tests.
- Created or fixed 9 POSIX timing tests.
Documentation / Training
- Determined guidance for doxygen use in BSPs and added doxygen comments to about 40 BSPs.
- Fixed documentation in the RTEMS POSIX user manual and in multiple test cases.
Outreach / Research
- Created 2 video tutorials for Getting Started with RTEMS.
- Updated the RTEMS wiki page up to date for the first time in six years (using references from Google Scholar).
Quality Assurance
- Investigated and/or fixed over 20 bugs in the RTEMS Bugzilla.
- User Interface
- Updated the rtems-graphics-toolkit repository and fixed some bugs.
Thanks again to everyone involved in making GCI 2013 a successful one for RTEMS Project.
By Gedare Bloom, RTEMS Project Org Admin
