I was trying to send a simple initial patch, I found checkstyle.py gives
few issues of line exceeding 80 characters. Should I send a patch on
improving such warnings or are such warnings considered a trivial issue?
Also below are few of my past work patches (on linux kernel) for the
reference
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg852708.html
- https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-doc/msg87260.html
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/11/2/1545
On Wed, Mar 31, 2021, 16:44 Adrien Destugues <pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Hi!
We have a page detailing what is expected during the application process
here:
https://www.haiku-os.org/community/gsoc/2021/students
In short, we expect you to:
- Discuss your GSoC proposal on this mailing list with other Haiku
developers
- Submit at least one patch to our code review tool at review.haiku-os.org
- Write your GSoC application draft and share it here so we can help you
to improve it (the page linked above gives you some information on how to
get started).
Since filesystems are a popular subject for our GSoC students, you can
look at the work that was done in previous years in that area.
A good starting point is the blog posts of previous students, for example:
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/cruxbox/
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/suhelmehta
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/brj
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/abx1/
https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/hyche/
From these blog messages and your own testing, we expect that you can
extract the following information and include it in your proposal:
- A quick overview of the filesystem and its main "selling points"
compared to other filesystems
- An overview of the history and state of the current implementation in
Haiku (maybe you will need to do your own testing: is read support working?
is write support enabled in current builds and is it working?)
- A description of the available tools to test the filesystem (fs_shell
and userlandfs being the main ones on Haiku side, but other tools may be
useful to generate test filesystem images)
- A roadmap of what needs to be done to get write support completed in
btrfs
I see that one patch from one of the previous students has not yet been
merged:
https://review.haiku-os.org/c/haiku/+/1531
As an introduction to Haiku you could work on improving this patch so we
can integrate it (our application process requires that you work on at
least one patch, this one is quite simple, but if you have done other work
elsewhere that we can also use as a reference, it should be fine).
My Opensource Contribution: lately I've Learnt how to work with Linuxkernel, where I have learnt
how to send patches, I made some code cleansing on the driver code ofMediaTek (mt7621-dma) in the
staging tree, and worked on documentation part as well as tried my handson bug-fixing.
You can include links to this work in your application if you want, and we
will review it during the
application process.
--
Adrien.
