Re: [Qemu-devel] [GSoC] Wanted: small warmup tasks

[Fam Zheng]

On Thu, 04/24 08:19, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2014-04-23 11:25, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> > Dear QEMU, Libvirt, and KVM communities,
> > We are participating in Google Summer of Code 2014
> > (http://google-melange.com/) and Outreach Program for Women
> > (http://opw.gnome.org/).  Both programs fund candidates to work on our
> > open source projects for 12 weeks this summer.
> 
> To follow up on this: I'm currently looking for optional tiny "warmup"
> tasks for our QEMU students during the bonding period (till May 18). If
> you have any trivial issues or extensions in mind that someone could
> address within a few days or even hours, that would be perfect. It could
> even be something like "reformat the printing of these messages" or so.

Jan,

A simple task:

There are a few "if (error_is_set(&ERR_VAR))" that could be converted to "if
(ERR_VAR)".

Thanks,
Fam

> 
> We used this mechanism last year with the KVM student quite
> successfully. The idea is to give the student very early a chance to get
> in contact with the community and with the patch submission & review
> procedure. So the focus is more on dealing with patches than on solving
> a technical problem in QEMU. If all works fine, this should encourage
> her/him to work with the community right from the beginning, ask
> question, post things early etc.
> 
> Jan
> 
>