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

[Marc Marí]

I'm now looking at the conditional fprintf's. I'll need a bit of help later in sending the patches :D.

Marc

2014-04-25 9:24 GMT+02:00 Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>:

On 2014-04-24 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.
>
> 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.

Thanks for all these suggestion so far! I personally wasn't able to look
into them in details yet.

A wish to the mentors and students: if someone picks up a task, please
drop a note here so that we can avoid duplicate work!

Jan