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Debian
The Universal Operating System
The Debian Project is an association of Free Software developers who volunteer their time and effort in order to produce and maintain a completely free operating system Debian. Since its launch, the Debian project has grown to comprise more than 1,000 members with official developer status, alongside many more volunteers and contributors. Today, Debian encompasses over 50,000 packages of free, open source applications and documentation.
- python
- java
- perl
- c++
- rust
- ai
- CI/CD
- autopkgtest
- raspberrypi_builds
- mobian
Project ideas
13 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 13 that state a difficulty: 1 easy, 5 medium, 7 hard. Sizes: 1 small, 6 medium, 6 large. 13 mentors named.
- Attack Of The Clones: Fight Back Using Code Duplication Detection from Security Patches large medium
- DebNet: Visualising the Bus Factor – Graph Analysis of Debian's Infrastructure large hard
- debian-lsp: improve file format support medium hard
- Automated Debian Packaging with debianize large hard
- Debusine: debuginfod server medium hard
- Debusine: git-first development large medium
- Debusine: live log streaming medium hard
- Debusine: replace archive-wide reports in UDD medium medium
- Debusine: usability and papercuts small easy
- Improving Salsa CI medium medium
- lintian-brush: improve performance by caching parsed ASTs medium medium
- lintian-brush: Split detection from fixers large hard
- Linux Livepatching large hard
Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.
History
In GSoC since 2016, 9 years. Projects per year: '16: 20, '18: 22, '19: 5, '20: 8, '21: 5, '22: 2, '24: 7, '25: 8, '26: 7.
On GitHub
No GitHub organization found in its official listing.
Links and channels
- Website: https://debian.org
- Ideas page: https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2026/Projects
- Contributor guide: https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2026
- Source code: https://salsa.debian.org
- Mailing list: https://lists.debian.org/debian-outreach
- Email: outreach@debian.org
git-into-gsoc org "Debian" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "Debian"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "Debian"or ask your assistant: "Which Debian repositories merge newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner issues are still free?"
Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.