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Mentors from Cockpit

• Dominik Perpeet
• Peter Volpe

Cockpit support for systemd timers

last year's description here

Systemd provides timers for calendar time events and monotonic time events (http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.timer.html, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd/Timers). A major component of the Fedora Server is the Cockpit Project, a web-based management console for servers.

Some preliminary designs for timers in Cockpit exist at https://trello.com/c/1B2lZViZ/74-timers-and-cron, although these are just intended as guidelines to get started.

Required:

• JavaScript (ideally jQuery)
• Fedora or other Linux

Bonus Skills:

• Familiarity with D-BUS
• Familiarity with Python (2.7)
• Experience working in Linux distributions

Libraries and Software:

• cockpit (http://cockpit-project.org/)

Difficulty Level:

• Beginner to intermediate

Expected outcomes

• A user of the Cockpit UI is able to view existing timers, edit existing ones or create new timers while providing the minimum set of necessary information to the UI
• The UI optionally allows more advanced settings to be selected
• Functionality of added features is tested via unit and/or integration tests

Mentor(s): Dominik Perpeet, Peter Volpe

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