Re: GSoC'21 - View Only Mode

[Marcus Müller]

Hey Oscar,

it's great to have you around!
GRC is really at the heart of GNU Radio's user experience. We've been hoping 
very much
someone would take on this project: Being able to safely share flow graphs 
would open the
door to much greater community cooperation.

While GSoC pays you to do your work (some of us here actually have been in that 
situation
- it's great!), don't assume you have to do it alone. Certainly, your mentor 
(and backup
mentors) will be there for any questions you have, but if there's anything you 
feel like
is a great question to ask the community, please don't hesitate: you being in 
this special
position doesn't mean you'd be getting the same support from the community than 
everyone
else does. Please never hesitate to drop an email to discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org, 
or to ask
and discuss on our Matrix server; especially #grc-dev:gnuradio.org [1] will 
probably be a
great place to hang out.

Thanks for being a part of all this,
have a lot of fun, i.e.
happy hacking!
--Marcus

[1] reachable through https://chat.gnuradio.org/#/room/#grc-dev:gnuradio.org , 
or any
other Matrix client

On 24.05.21 11:19, Oscar Ekholm wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been accepted to work with GnuRadio for this year's Google Summer of 
> Code. I will be
> working on implementing a GRC View-Only Mode, which is a security feature 
> disabling
> execution of block parameters in untrusted flowgraphs.
> 
> I will be posting weekly progress updates on my blog:
> https://oscekh.github.io/ <https://oscekh.github.io/>
> 
> If you are interested in reading more about the View-Only mode it is 
> described further in
> my project proposal:
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dL6PziJSopcY3O7gJ6CXiedTSdbhrHVFhR-UJRTmsng/edit?usp=sharing
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dL6PziJSopcY3O7gJ6CXiedTSdbhrHVFhR-UJRTmsng/edit?usp=sharing>
> 
> Please reach out if you have any questions, advice or thoughts you want to 
> share.
> 
> Best regards,
> Oscar Ekholm