<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I am Amber. I am working and i want to contribute in strace. I have already joined your mailing list. But i don't know from where to start the contribution.</div><div><br></div><div>I know C language, linux system programming, kernel programming and concept of operating system. </div><div><br></div><div>So can you please tell me the way to start contribution.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Amber </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 7:59 AM, Philippe Ombredanne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pombredanne@nexb.com" target="_blank">pombredanne@nexb.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Alangi Derick <<a href="mailto:alangiderick@gmail.com">alangiderick@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I am Alangi Derick Ndimnain. I am a third year undergraduate software<br>
> engineering student i did a course called systems programming which talks<br>
> about the notion of systems call. I will really like to work with system<br>
> calls and implement some of them. I will like you to work me through so that<br>
> i can contribute some code to the organisation because i think i have some<br>
> ideas i can chip in to the organisation in order to increase their code base<br>
> and improve on Strace as a whole. I will also like you to mentor me as your<br>
> student and i will work with you based on your idea or domain of specialty.<br>
> Thanks and will be waiting for your mail what will lead me to get<br>
> involved in Strace.<br>
<br>
Alangi:<br>
Welcome: thank you for your interest, this is very much appreciated!<br>
strace is a cool codebase, but this is also fairly low level C code.<br>
<br>
To get involved you should start by installing it and using it of<br>
course, then studying it.<br>
Do you have some experience with C and Linux system code?<br>
Some public code that you did in that domain that you can point us to?<br>
Do you have some understanding of multiple processor architectures?<br>
<br>
Now, if you want to be involved in the GSOC, the process is roughly this:<br>
<br>
1. Participate to the list and start contributing to strace here and now.<br>
A small patch or bug fix would go a long way to show your capabilities.<br>
We generally follow the same approach and conventions as the Linux<br>
Kernel for mailing list and patch submissions.<br>
Ask questions (but please do your research and homework first!).<br>
<br>
2. When the GSOC starts in earnest, you can then submit a project<br>
proposal for the strace project @ Google.<br>
This is a highly competitive process where all the student project<br>
proposals will be evaluated carefully and we will only select a few of<br>
the very best proposals.<br>
<br>
If you do not care for the GSOC in particular, 1. is enough! and you<br>
can start right away.<br>
<br>
As a side note, we do not use top posting on the strace mailing list.<br>
We use bottom posting when we reply to emails. Please do not top post.<br>
See <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Bottom-posting" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Bottom-posting</a> for details.<br>
This email is a simple example of such a bottom post reply.<br>
<br>
--<br>
Cordially<br>
Philippe Ombredanne<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Thanks and Regards,</span><div><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">Amber Bhardwaj</span></div><div><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">+91-7895889735<br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:courier new,monospace">+91-8951188468</span></div></div></div>
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