Re: Contributor wanting to get started with simple contributions

[Rohit Shinde]

Hey John,

I wanted to follow up on this, in case you missed my previous email :)

Thanks,

Rohit.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 1:14 AM Rohit Shinde <rohit.shinde12194@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey John,

Sorry to bother you! I just wanted to know if you had any thoughts on the mail I sent.

Is there anything I can pick up right now with regards to the Python package? You mentioned that linting is something that needs to be completed before we go ahead, so maybe I can start with that?

Thanks,

Rohit.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 1:55 PM Rohit Shinde <rohit.shinde12194@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey John,

I came across QEMU in 2015 when I was looking to participate in GSOC. I did GSoC through another org. I kept following qemu because I was interested in virtualization, systems level coding and device emulation. 

Currently, most of my professional dev work is done in Java and Python (with some C++). I am interested in C/C++ development simply because of the things you can accomplish with the tools that these languages give you. My interests in programming as a hobby are very general. I would like to take part in all kinds of development at least once (example: OS development, virtualization, compilers, networking, etc). Professionally, I am a backend developer who does SDK/API development along with writing general purpose software that serves business needs. This is all at the application level. So I have quite some experience in areas like CI/CD, deployment, build systems and API dev. However, I don't know how much of that will translate to QEMU development since the environment I work in is quite different.

Out of the topic areas you mention, I am very interested in the following (mentioned in order of interest):

1. Emulation
2. KVM
3. Storage optimization.

I have been reading about KVM quite a bit because I wanted to know how virtualization theory is actually implemented.

And once again, thanks for the response! I really appreciate it!

Thanks,

Rohit.

On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 11:51 AM John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:

On 8/26/20 11:00 AM, Rohit Shinde wrote:
> Hey Thomas,
>
> I didn't really have any specific questions. I wanted to know if there
> was any part of qemu that I could contribute to. Qemu is overwhelmingly
> vast and without some pointers, I felt very lost.

Yeah, it can be hard to get started.

What are your interests in programming/development, any specific types
of coding you like doing more than others? What draws you to the QEMU in
particular? Is there something you'd like to see QEMU do that it doesn't
today, or something you feel like you are particularly suited to doing?

If I can figure out what brought you here, maybe I can direct you to
some projects that might benefit from your attention. [Apart from the
Python stuff, which we are discussing elsewhere in another thread.]

Some topic areas:

- Emulation (TCG)
- Virtualization (KVM)
- Esoteric/Legacy architecture/device emulation
- Optimization (Network, Storage, CPU)
- Regression/Acceptance Testing
- Fuzzing
- Configuration
- Deployment
- Continuous Integration
- Accessibility, Ease-of-use
- Build systems & tooling
- Development process
- SDK/API development


If you have any specific knowledge in areas that aren't Linux on x86,
there are likely areas of QEMU that could benefit from your knowledge.
We are always looking for people to help maintain and develop code
intended for other architectures on other platforms.

--js