Hey Thomas, I didn't really have any specific questions. I wanted to know if there was any part of qemu that I could contribute to. Qemu is overwhelmingly vast and without some pointers, I felt very lost.
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 1:51 AM Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > On 25/08/2020 04.26, Rohit Shinde wrote: > > Hey John, > > > > I sent this email a couple of weeks ago to the qemu mailing list since I > > didn't really know who to approach. > > Hi Rohit, > > The qemu-devel mailing list is very high traffic. So I'm sorry, but you > might need to be a little bit more specific with your questions if you > expect an answer... > > > I have built qemu from source and I have my machine setup for > > git-publish via email. > > > > I would like to start contributing with one of the bite sized tasks > > mentioned in the wiki page. The one that interests me and which I > > think is the easiest are the sections on "Compiler Driven Cleanup" > > and "Dead Code Removal". I think this is a good way to get > > introduced to the codebase. > > Sure, just go ahead and have a try! Once you've successfully wrote a > patch, please have a look at > https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch how to submit it. > > > I plan to stay and become a long term contributor. Is there any CS > > What does "CS" stand for? > Computer Science :) > > > theory that I would need to know other than what I mentioned above? > > Is it possible to "learn on the go"? > > You certainly have to "learn on the go", since it is likely quite > impossible to grasp a huge project like QEMU at once. > > I am interested in contributing to something like device emulation. There might be lots of devices which Qemu might want to emulate but which haven't yet been emulated. If possible, I would like to give that a shot. However, there was work related to python packaging as well, which I had commented on in Launchpad. John told me quite a bit about that as well. I am interested in that as well. I have already submitted a trivial patch for handling compiler warnings and I am trying to get it accepted. Cheers, > Thomas > > Thanks, Rohit.
