Ivan Nardi
Tim AllisonI have a draft PR open to improve coverage of #ApachePDFBox in #ossfuzz
For future reference, the current harnesses cover <10% of the codebase.
Till Kamppeter#OpenPrinting as part of the #linuxfoundation will again mentor 11 contributors in this year's Google Summer of Code! #GSoC
Our projects cover CUPS 3.x support for #KDE Print Manager, #GNOME Control Center, system-config-printer, pyCUPS, CUPS on #Zephyr, visual analysis of print output for testing, #Rust bindings for libcups/cpdb-libs, utilizing #OSSFuzz Gen, OSS-Fuzz for Go/Python projects, modernize #GTK print dialog, web site improvement with #Nextjs.
More soon on
https://openprinting.github.io/news/
At OpenPrinting we are full steam in the preparations for the Google Summer of Code 2025!
Many enthusiastic contributor candidates are already chatting with us, watching our videos, reading our introductions, studying our code, doing onboarding exercises ...
And what about you? We have listed 15 exciting project ideas, or you bring your own.
Introduction to read and to what, and the project ideas are here:
https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/gsoc/google-summer-code-2025-openprinting-projects
First pr on google's #ossfuzz! Let's hope it doesn't break anything.
Build in stages to shed 9gb from the jvm base builder image by tballison · Pull Request #12649 · google/oss-fuzz
This PR reduces the final base-builder-jvm image by 9GB. Careful review and full integration testing across oss-fuzz projects is required before merging, obviously. This worked on two projects I wa...
The schedules for the second #OpportunityOpenSource in the IIT Kanpur in India onn August 24-26 are ready!
3 rooms (2 talks/panels, 1 workshops) are packed with 50 amazing sessions!
There are:
- #OpenPrinting, with Michael Sweet, author of #CUPS
- #Zephyr
- #Snap, incl. workshop
- Hands-on with #firmware programming
- #BlendOS
- Workshop to make your own #Ubuntu flavor
- #OSSfuzz testing
- Population AI
- GSoC panel
- "Work at #Canonical" panel
- a lot more ...
Opportunity Open Source Conference
Conference web site Call for Abstracts extended until July 30!! Be a part of it! Are you astonished by what one can accomplish with free and open-source software? Are you amazed by what open-source communities put together with great enthusiasm? Would you like to know how this all relates to our daily life? Would you also like to become one of these individuals? Are you interested in coding for one of the many great free software projects? Applications? Desktop environments? System...
If you need a pick me up, look no further than the tidbit that the maintainer who put the back door into xz got #ossfuzz to turn off the functionality that would have revealed the exploit.
This is not schadenfreude. I’ve made numerous lgtm mistakes in my work in open source.
This is just pure, unadulterated, gobsmacking hilarity.
Anisse (@[email protected])
Looks like they even went and disabled the feature the exploit relied on on ossfuzz to prevent accidental discovery 😱: https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/pull/10667
#OpenPrinting as a part of the #LinuxFoundation is participating in the 20th #GSoC, #GSoC2024!!
https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/gsoc/google-summer-code-2024-openprinting-projects
We have lots of amazing project ideas this year:
- Desktop Integration of the new all-IPP printing architecture and #OAuth2: system-config-printer, #LibreOffice, #Thunderbird, #Firefox
- #OSSFuzz testing of OpenPrinting's components
- Printer Applications: #Gutenprint, #Braille
Contact us ASAP to get onboarded at OpenPrinting and to work out your proposal.