In GSoC 2026

Debian

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.

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Contributors in 2026

−2 from 2025

Projects since 2016

9.4 a cycle on average

Cycles

9 of 11

3-cycle streak

Rank in 2026

#40

of 183, 0.6% of slots

Mentors

for 7 projects in 2024

Contributors per cycle

Accepted projects each year, against the median organization that year

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Debian contributors per cycle
	Debian	Median organization
2016	20	4
2017	0	4
2018	22	3
2019	5	4
2020	8	4
2021	5	4
2022	2	3
2023	0	4
2024	7	4
2025	9	5
2026	7	4

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Quick answers

Is Debian in GSoC 2026?: Yes, with 7 contributors.
How long has it taken part?: 9 of 11 cycles since 2016, first in 2016, with a 3-cycle streak running.
How many contributors does it usually take?: 9.4 a cycle on average, 85 in total. Its largest cycle was 2018, with 22.
What does it build with?: C, Python, Django, Ruby, C++, JavaScript and 5 more.

Accepted projects

7 projects in 2026 · All 85 projects since 2016

Automated Debian Packaging with debianize
Anurag Nayak
Debianize is a tools that aims to automatically create debian packages from scratch from upstream source trees. As for the current version, it works...
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Linux Livepatching
Aryan Karamtoth
Linux Kernel Livepatching is the process of replacing functions in the kernel code affected by CVEs with the patch-applied functions during system...
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DebNet Visualising the Bus Factor in the Debian Archive
Fabio Ruhland
DebNet models the Debian archive as a graph to identify critical packages maintained by too few people. Using data from the Ultimate Debian Database...
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Attack of the Clones: Fight Back Using Code Duplication Detection From Security Patches
Gajendra Nath Soren
This project aims to detect vulnerable code clones in the Debian archive by automatically extracting signatures from security patches. Using a...
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Debusine: debuginfod server
Jugal59
This project implements a debuginfod-compatible server within Debusine to provide automated debug symbol resolution for Debian developers. Currently,...
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Debian-LSP: Improve File Format Support
Lucas Ly Ba
The Debian LSP Language Server currently provides only basic features — field completion, parse-error diagnostics, and simple quick fixes — leaving...
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Debusine: live log streaming
mo-ashraf
Debusine currently only shows task logs after a task has fully completed. This means developers working with long-running jobs (such as package...
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Enhancing Salsa CI: Stats Dashboard, Local Execution, and Faster Pipelines
Aayush (@44yu5h)Mentored by Otto
This project suggests significant upgrades to Salsa CI (Debian's Continuous Integration system) used by more than 27,000 source packages by adding an...
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Enhancing Salsa CI in Debian
aquilamacedoMentored by Otto
This project aims to enhance Salsa CI, a key tool in Debian's package workflow that ensures smooth transitions from unstable to testing release via...
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Quality assurance and continuous integration for biological and medical applications inside Debian
Harish Chavre
Most Debian Med packages—particularly those utilized in medicine and biology—do not have adequate automated tests (autopkgtests). Without them, it's...
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Package LLM Inference Libraries
k1000daiMentored by Mo Zhou
Package Large Language Model (LLM) inference libraries, in particular vLLM. It is needless to explain how LLMs are important. Currently, the Debian...
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Make Debian for Raspberry Pi Build Again
Kurva PrashanthMentored by Gunnar Wolf
There is an available set of images for running Debian in Raspberry Pi computers (all models below the 5 series)! However, the maintainer severely...
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Device-specific Tweaks Management Service (Tweakster)
Mohammed ElDegwiMentored by aferraris
As the number of non-x86 Linux-capable devices grows rapidly (especially ARM64 laptops, phones, and tablets), the current approach of providing...
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autopkgtests for the rsync package
puer robustusMentored by Samuel Henrique "samueloph"
Extend the Debian rsync package autopkgtest suite by running more upstream tests, setting up end-to-end tests with a proper ssh connection, and...
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Enhancing Debian packages with ROCm GPU acceleration
SpaarshMentored by cgmb
Due to Debian’s open-source nature, no Debian package in main can have a proprietary GPU package listed as a dependency. While AI and HPC workloads...
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Enhancing Debian Packages with ROCm GPU Acceleration
utk4r-shMentored by cgmb
ROCm is one of the most promising open-source platforms for GPU computing, providing a vendor-neutral alternative to CUDA, for scientific, AI, and...
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Architecture Cross-Grading Support in Debian
Kevin WuMentored by Philip Hands, Steve McIntyre
The project aims to create tools that will simplify the manual process of switching between two architectures (crossgrading) and to make it a...
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Android SDK tools in Debian
Raman SardaMentored by Andrej Shadura, Hans-Christoph Steiner, cdesai
The end goal of the project is making the entire Android toolchain and SDK tools available in debian archives. So that a user can develop android...
Project Work
Packaging and Quality Assurance of COVID-19 Relevant Applications
Nilesh PatraMentored by Liubov, Andreas Tille, Michael R. Crusoe
The Debian Med team currently has around 920 packages in main, contrib and non-free sections. This count is further increasing with new incoming...
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Android SDK Tools in Debian
samyak-jnMentored by Andrej Shadura, Hans-Christoph Steiner, cdesai
The Android platform is free software which includes the tools used for developing apps for Android. As Debian and its derivatives are a preferred...
Project Work
Android SDK Tools for Debian
MANAS KASHYAPMentored by Andrej Shadura, Hans-Christoph Steiner, cdesai
The main aim of the project will be to have the entire Android tool chain and SDK in Debian making Debian a Powerful Operating System and making...
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Downstream Upstream Cooperation in Ruby
utkarsh2102Mentored by Antonio Terceiro
The Debian Ruby team has a lot of experience in packaging and managing Ruby libraries and applications for Debian. During this work, they identified...
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Quality Assurance and Continuous Integration for Applications in Life Sciences and Medicine
Pranav BallaneyMentored by Liubov, Andreas Tille, Michael R. Crusoe
The Debian Med project has packaged several applications in life sciences and medicine. Continuous integration for these packages is very important...
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BLAS/LAPACK Ecosystem Enhancement for Debian
Mo ZhouMentored by Andreas Tille, Sébastien Villemot
Abstract Dense (numerical) Linear Algebra plays an important role in scientific computing, and is typically implemented by the BLAS/LAPACK libraries....
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Click To Dial Popup Window for the Linux Desktop
VishalGuptaMentored by Thomas Levine, Keith Larrimore
An application (invoked as a MIME handler) with a GUI that can place a phone call, display details about the country in which the phone number is...
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Design and implementation of a Debian SSO solution
Birger SchachtMentored by formorer, Nicolas Mora
The Debian project has an SSO solution that DDs (Debian Developers) and guests can authenticate against on different Debian websites. With the...
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Kanban Board for Debian Bug Tracker and CalDAV servers
Chikirou MassiwayneMentored by Silvi Kolumcaj, Balram Pariyarath
A desktop GUI application that can obtain task lists from various sources (Debian Bug Tracker's iCalendar feed and Github iCalendar, CalDAV servers...
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Free Software Habits - Firefox extension
Enkelena HaxhijaMentored by Bruno Magalhães, Gabriela Villalobos, Milena Lavanchy
Plugin (web-extension) to help avoid non-free sites that pop-up on Firefox by recommending free alternatives when non-free sites are recognized. Its...
Project Code
Port Kali Packages to Debian
SamuelHenrique samuelophMentored by Raphaël HERTZOG, LocutusOfBorg
This project consists of porting Kali Packages to Debian, it is a work that the pkg-security team handles on Debian but there’s still lots of things...
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Click To Dial Popup Window for the Linux Desktop
Sanjay PrajapatMentored by Thomas Levine, Keith Larrimore
Application pops up when a user clicks on a tel: link in an application such as Firefox, Chrome, Evolution. Pop-up window displays the phone number...
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Extracting data from PDF invoices and bills for financial accounting
Harshit JoshiMentored by Thomas Levine, Manuel Riel, Pieter Willem Moerenhout
This project aims to develop a complete workflow for discovering bills (in a directory, mail folder or with a browser plugin to extract them from web...
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A calendar database of social events and conferences
Doğukan ÇELİKMentored by Balram Pariyarath
This project aims to deliver open database for community which includes events across the world from many different sources.
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GSoC 2018 Android SDK tools in debian
Saif Abdul CassimMentored by 殷啟聰 | Kai-Chung Yan, cdesai, Hans-Christoph Steiner
finish packaging all of the core development tools (lint, SDK Manager, android update project utility, etc.) update android-tools and relevant...
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Automatic Packages for Everything
Alexandre ViauMentored by Lucas Nussbaum
Many packaging tasks can be automated, and are likely to succeed without any human intervention: creating a backport for Debian stable from a...
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PGP Clean Room Live CD
Jacob AdamsMentored by Thomas Levine, Daniele Nicolodi
Building a TUI application for the PGP Clean Room Live CD to walk a user through safely creating and storing a PGP key offline. Will also support...
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Wizard/GUI helping students/interns apply and get started
Elena GjevukajMentored by Urvika Gola, Daniel Pocock, Jaminy Prabaharan
Throughout the application process and first few weeks of programs like Google Summer of Code and Outreachy, applicants typically need to work...
Project Report
Reverse Engineering Radiator Bluetooth Thermovalves
Sergio AlbertiMentored by Andrea Trentini
Radiator valves have become increasingly important in recent years, especially in some countries where they have been made mandatory by law. This led...
Project Code
Wizard/GUI helping students/interns apply and get started
Minkush JainMentored by Urvika Gola, Daniel Pocock, Jaminy Prabaharan
This project aims at developing tools and packages which would simplify the process for new applicants in the open source community to get the...
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Improving Distro Tracker to better support Debian teams
Arthur Del EsposteMentored by Lucas Kanashiro
This project aims at designing and implementing new features in Distro Tracker [http://tracker.debian.org/] to better support Debian teams to track...
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Packaging and Updating Android SDK Tools
Chandramouli RajagopalanMentored by 殷啟聰 | Kai-Chung Yan, cdesai, Hans-Christoph Steiner
Debian-derivatives are already a preferred platform for Android developers, and stretch already includes the core Android SDK tools, enough to build...
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Wizard/GUI helping students/interns apply and get started
realslimshankyMentored by Jaminy Prabaharan, CuriousLearner
Wizard/GUI is an application which brings together all the Tools and Tutorials necessary for a person to learn and start contributing to Open Source....
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EasyGnuPG Improvements
diveshuttamMentored by T K Sourab, Dashamir Hoxha
EasyGnuPG (aka EGPG) is a shell script that wraps GPG and tries to make it more accessible and easy to use. In order to simplify things, EGPG is...
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Android SDK Tools in Debian
darkLordMentored by 殷啟聰 | Kai-Chung Yan, cdesai, Hans-Christoph Steiner
The Debian Android Tools team is working towards the goal of having the entire Android toolchain and SDK in Debian. That means Android apps can be...
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P2P Network Boot with BitTorrent
Shreyansh KhajanchiMentored by Andrea Trentini
In this project, we explore the solutions that allow P2P network booting of Linux based systems and then create an easy to use and distribution...
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OwnMailbox Improvements
Georgios PipilisMentored by Dashamir Hoxha, Pierre Parent
Improve current functionality of the OwnMailbox personal email server, implement support for a GPG Key Server and HSTS. Furthermore, thoroughly...
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Automatic builds with clang using OBS
Athos RibeiroMentored by Sylvestre Ledru
Debian package builds with clang are performed from time to time through massive rebuilds of the Debian archive on AWS. The results of these builds...
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Improving voice, video and chat communication with free software
PranavJainMentored by saghul
I want to contribute to a project which support high end communication via free and open source tools. I want to contribute to FreeRTC project
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Improving voice, video and chat communication with free software
udit043Mentored by gauravsaini
Project include fixing and resolving some bugs with opportunity to bring and implement something innovative that will make this project a splendid...
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Improving voice, video and chat communication with free software
JonathanJsonMentored by amonsalvesalazar@gmail.com
The project is aimed at improving the mips and mipsel ports. My implication in the project will therefore reflect the needs of the team that have...
Project Report
Ring project
GasulegMentored by alexandrelision@gmail.com, Yomgui
I will work on the RING project for Savoir Faire Linux. I will create tool to know the exact performances of the ring software on the different...
Project Report
Improving voice, video and chat communication with free software
Mesut Can GurleMentored by bmagalhaes
Free RTC is for running your own, independent, federated and peer-to-peer RTC solutions, including instant messaging (IM), voice-over-IP (VoIP),...
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Indexation over a distributed network
Reynaud NicolasMentored by aberaud, Yomgui
As some project, like Ring, need some form of indexation, which could be usefull, for example to index user profile, or some other ressources....
Project Report
Android SDK Tools in Debian
Mouaad AallamMentored by Hans-Christoph Steiner
The Android platform is free software, including the tools used for developing apps for Android. Debian-derivatives are already a preferred platform...
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Android SDK Tools in Debian
Chirayu DesaiMentored by Hans-Christoph Steiner
Android is the most widely used free, open source mobile operating system. The tools used to create applications for the platform are also open...
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Support for KLEE in Debile
Marko DimjaševićMentored by Sylvestre Ledru
Writing and maintaining software is challenging. Software is complex and keeping it bug-free remains an unsolved problem. Debian Stretch, the next...
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Telepathy Connection Manager for Ring protocol
Alok AnandMentored by Alexandr Akulich, Daniel Pocock, stepansalenikovich@gmail.com
Telepathy is the framework for Real-time communication on the major Linux desktops and Ring is a secure and distributed peer to peer network for real...
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Create new recommendation strategy for AppRecommender
LucianoMentored by Tássia Camões Araújo, Antonio Terceiro
This project aims at creating a new strategy for AppRecommender. The new approach would only be triggered when the user installs a new package....
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APT↔dpkg communication rework
DonKultMentored by michaelvogt@gmail.com
APT-based tools work with the user to figure out how their system should look like after they are done installing/removing packages and their...
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Improving WebRTC, Apache Camel and Jitsi
Nik VaessenMentored by gled, ibauersachs, Boris Grozev
ICE and TURN support for Jitsi, SIP message for Apache Camel, WebRTC server probe.
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Web Client and Connection Manager for reSIProcate
Mateus Augusto Bellomo Agrello RuivoMentored by Alexandr Akulich, Daniel Pocock
I will work to add a support for a Web Client in conference calls and a Connection Manager for reSIProcate. I will also make a good effort at making...
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AppRecommender - integration with AppStream
lucasmouraMentored by Tássia Camões Araújo, Antonio Terceiro
AppRecommender is a recommender system for Debian packages. Currently, this application can only be run through terminal commands. The idea of this...
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Improving distributed and secure communication using free software
sim590Mentored by aberaud, Yomgui
Distributed and secure communication for the sake of user's privacy has never been as much needed as of now. That's why I feel a great pleasure to...
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Developer Horizon and other extensions
Harsh DaftaryMentored by bzed, irl
I propose to work for following projects for Google Summer of Code 16 under Debian. Continue the development of Developer Horizon project and...
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YooHoo - The Perfect Chat Engine
Balu MenonMentored by gled, Daniel Pocock
Project Details: YooHoo, is a interactive chat engine, which supports text, audio, video chats and file sharing. It is to facilitate one-to-one...
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CI for Debian-Med
Canberk KoçMentored by Andreas Tille
The Debian Med project prepares packages that are associated with medicine, pre-clinical research, and life sciences. Its developments are mostly...
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Android SDK Tools in Debian
Kai-Chung YanMentored by Hans-Christoph Steiner
Improve the existing Android SDK packages in Debian and bring in more of them. Get existing SDK packages migrated into Testing Finish packaging SDK...
Project Work

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