[Gsoc2015]-Help needed to get started

[Philippe Ombredanne]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 12:35 AM, Kushal Singh
<kushal.spiderman.singh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello ,
>
>     My name is Kushal Singh, I am a BTech student at IIIT-Hyderabad. My
> primary areas of interests are operating systems , computer organization and
> architecture.  I am interested in participating in Google Summer of Code
> this year and I came across 'strace' as an organization.

Hi Kushal and welcome to strace!

>  It is a tool which I have been using for quite some time now.   I had a
> look through the ideas page and I loved the project called
> " Comprehensive test suite".  I will be grateful if I could get some help in
> order to get started with the code-base and some reference to the
> documentation.

The best (and only) doc we have is the code and the list.

> Kindly also do tell where do I find bugs and fix them ?.

These are either in the list or in downstream distros bug trackers.


> Also is there an IRC channel present ( I searched but couldn't find one ) .

We do not maintain a permanent IRC channel at this time, though I hang
sometimes on #strace on freenode, mostly alone.

-- 
Cordially
Philippe Ombredanne