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

[Markus Armbruster]

Andreas Färber <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 24.04.2014 08:19, schrieb Jan Kiszka:
>> 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.
>
> Replacing some more fprintf(stderr, "foo\n") with error_report("foo")
> comes to mind. :)

A logical next step after this kind of warmup would be a simple
conversion to error_set().  Perhaps a good place to start would be
qmp_chardev_add().  The switch there has some cases converted already.
Convert one or more of the remaining ones.  Beware of the rabbit holes!
In case of vertigo, contact your mentor immediately ;)

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