Thank you, Manos. I'm not discouraged by the difficulty. I guess I just didn't know where to start from. Thanks for the direction.
On Sun, 08 Sept 2024, 09:51 Manos Pitsidianakis, < manos.pitsidiana...@linaro.org> wrote: > On Sun, 08 Sep 2024 10:28, Joseph Kurape <jkur...@gmail.com> wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I'm new to open-source, but I've learned C and Python. > > > >I've read the 'Getting Started' guide, but aside from signing up for the > >mailing list and getting the source code, it doesn't provide much > direction > >for beginners. > > > >I'm looking for somewhere I can contribute. Could any maintainer suggest > >any issue they need fixing or offer general directions on the best way to > >get started? > > Hello Joseph! > > First, the bad news: QEMU is a sophisticated and complicated project, > and I would not recommend it as the first foray of serious programming > to most people. But the good news is, it is still possible to contribute > without being an expert simply because QEMU is composed of many > different things. > > The usual advice is to take a look at the issues labelled as > "Bite-Sized" on our Issue tracker: > > > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/?sort=created_date&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=Bite+Sized&first_page_size=50 > > Take your time looking at each of them and you can choose something that > looks approachable to you. > > Note: I see that in many issues people say they want to contribute and > ask for the issue to be assigned to them- no need to do that! Focus on > writing down your solution and sending it to the list while following > the "submitting a patch" docs: > https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/submitting-a-patch.html > > If you have any kind of technical question you should ask on IRC, if you > happen on any developer being online at the same time as you, or on the > list. Do not ask people in private because not only will less people see > your question, but most QEMU maintainers only pay attention to the > mailing list for QEMU related discussion. > > If you have any more questions feel free to ask! > > >
