[openbeosnetteam] Re: Haiku internship

Waldemar Kornewald <wkornew@xxxxxxx> · Thu, 01 Jun 2006 22:18:25 +0200

A G wrote:

Hello;
My name is Andrew Galante, and I am the new intern working on the Haiku
network stack with you this summer.  From talking with Michael, it seemed i
would be working on putting the FreeBSD network stack into Haiku.
Right now, I'm working on getting the 3 OS's (FreeBSD, BeOS R5 and Haiku) up
and running on either real hardware or virtual machines.  I will also be
going through some of the mailing list archives to see what's been going on.

Hi Andrew! This will hopefully become an exciting time for all of us. :))
Just to get you started:
You probably already saw the team page:
http://haiku-os.org/contribute.php?mode=team_view&id=Networking
We have a wiki page for the networking team at:
http://www.haiku-os.org/wiki/index.php?title=Networking
It is a little bit out of date, though. You could use the wiki to collect
details about the netstack, possible problems, which APIs are not supported by
Haiku and what else might be useful for the other participating developers.
My wish for the porting layer is that it's clean and well-documented, so new
developers are able to take over maintenance tasks (import changes from
FreeBSD).
Please make sure that you also subscribed to these mailing lists:
* //www.freelists.org/list/openbeos
* https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/haiku-commits
Do you already have a BerliOS account? You can create one here:

http://developer.berlios.de/

Please tell us your user name, so we can add you to the project.
Haiku's BerliOS

project page (including information about getting SVN repos contents):

http://developer.berlios.de/projects/haiku
Are you familiar with our development tools? We use:
* SCM: subversion

reference: http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

intro to branches (unfortunately, GCC-related):
http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SvnHelp

(you'll probably need to use branches for initial development)

If you want to use SSH keys:

http://developer.berlios.de/docman/display_doc.php?docid=31&group_id=2
* build system: Jam

It's faster to copy and modify existing Jamfiles instead of reading
long-winded

tutorials. You won't get into deep details, anyway. Ask on this list if you

have a complex problem (esp. Ingo Weinhold can help you).
* bug tracker: http://haiku-os.org/bugzilla/
Self-explaining.
The tools and documentation can be found on our website in the Develop
section:

http://haiku-os.org/develop.php

but please ignore the coding guidelines and use this updated version (with

explanation about license headers):

http://www.haiku-os.org/wiki/index.php?title=Coding_Guidelines

Keep this in mind: we love people who follow our coding guidelines and we beat

others with a bamboo stick until the text appears on their back. You'll see

that this makes sense. :)
You can use Vim for development. On http://www.bebits.com you can also find a
simple GUI version and other software, but we also have a command-line version
in our repos. Many BeOS developers just use BeIDE or Pe (everything on
BeBits.com).
Let me introduce a few people: Our networking team leader is Philippe Houdoin,

but he's not coding a lot on networking, anymore (real-life issues). Oliver

Tappe will actively help with coding. I hope that Axel DÃrfler will join

development, too. And finally, I've written the PPP stack (not finished, of

course...). Now, I'm mostly doing non-coding tasks, but I should still be able

to answer a few netstack questions. We will be mentoring and helping you with

design decisions and everything that might come up. If you ever have a
question

just post to this mailing list. For quick questions IRC might be helpful, too:

* server: irc.freenode.net

* channel: #haiku

For a translation between real names and nick names look here:

http://www.haiku-os.org/wiki/index.php?title=Developers
Don't be afraid of the flood of information. It's actually not that much. ;)
I hope you'll have a lot of fun with us. Welcome to the team! :))
Bye,
Waldemar

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