Re: New Outreachy Applicant

[Ronald Rojas <ronladred@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 06:44:08PM +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 3:23 PM, George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for this -- if you're up for it, let me see what kinds of next
> > steps you can do (obviously when you have the opportunity).
> 
> So there are a couple of things we could do next.
> 
> * If you want a simple change that you can use to get experience with
> sending patches to the list:
> 
> There are a number of instances in tools/libxl/xl_cmdimpl.c where
> where domid is listed as uint32_t (or libxl_domid), but the printf
> specifier is used as '%d'.  Change this to '%u'.
> 
> * If you want an investigation to do:
> 
> At least a couple of times I've accidentally run a golang program with
> libxl functionality on a system that wasn't running Xen (i.e., I'd
> rebooted onto Linux baremetal).  Instead of throwing an error, as you
> would expect, it crashed with a SEGV.
> 
> Try to reproduce this bug, and see if you can fix it.
> 
> * If you want to dive into the project:
> 
> I can send you my most recent version of libxl.go (which has a few
> more things implemented).  Modify it so that it builds as a package (I
> think "xenproject.org/xenlight" is probably the best name), and wire
> it into the build system in tools/golang/xenlight, and installs into
> $prefix/share/gocode/src/xenproject.org/.
> 
> The key thing with the last one is not to get too bogged down in
> systems you're not familiar with -- if you get stuck ask for help
> relatively quickly; and if it's turning into a mess, I can just do the
> Makefile side of things so that you can get to the actual Go side of
> the project.
> 
> What do you think?

I think I would prefer to do the first task and then the last task. I 
have not used stgit so I think it would be beneficial to do that first
and then I can dive into the project. 
I will probably do the first task on either Sunday or Monday, depending
on when I can start working on it. The packaging task seems much more 
difficult and I really only have a significant amount of time to work 
on this during the weekend, so it'll probably take 1 or 2 more weeks 
to complete that. 
In the meantime I think it would be helpful to look at the makefile 
of another subproject from xen so I could get some inspiration on how 
structure this new project. Is there any Makefile that you think I 
should look at? If not I'll just read through a couple of files in xen
and try to follow a similar style. 

Does that sound like a good plan?
 
Ronald Rojas

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