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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Doug Goldstein <cardoe@cardoe.com>
Cc: nimisha agarwal <nimishaag2212@gmail.com>,
	xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Outreachy]Code Standards Checking using clang-format
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 16:15:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160927151502.GJ16004@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0f77d7fe-4225-3d4c-946d-efced21ce6d1@cardoe.com>

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 09:22:37AM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> On 9/26/16 3:53 PM, nimisha agarwal wrote:
> > Hello,
> >  I wish to take part in the Outreach Program this time. The
> > second  project that interest me is *Code Standards Checking using
> > clang-format. *I am currently looking through clang-format so I could
> > get to know how to use it.
> > To get started, if you could suggest couple of small bitesize work-items
> > so I could start contributing and get familiar with the codebase.
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Nimisha
> 
> Hi Nimisha,
> 
> Sounds great. At this time I'm personally not very familiar with some
> bite sized items to get started with contributing but I've CC'd Wei and
> I'm hoping he's got some ideas.

I don't have anything in mind at the moment.

However, I think it would be more useful to design a small task to test
applicants' proficiency in the skills we care about than ask them to
make simple modifications to the code base.

See <d9b5890f-8620-49f3-1d6a-0e414d551c4a@citrix.com> for an example.

Wei.


> 
> -- 
> Doug Goldstein
> 




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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-26 20:53 [Outreachy]Code Standards Checking using clang-format nimisha agarwal
2016-09-27 14:22 ` Doug Goldstein
2016-09-27 15:15   ` Wei Liu [this message]
2016-09-28 18:24     ` nimisha agarwal

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