Looking for TODO

Looking for TODO

[Shaun Brady]

Hello Netfilter-ers,

I'm in the process of submitting my first patch, and have very much
enjoyed the process.

To find the work, I browsed the netfilter bugzilla, looking for
something I felt I was capable of, and started hacking.

I found this link about the Core Team:
https://www.netfilter.org/about.html#coreteam

6 bullets are listed as to what the Core Team finds valuable, one of
them being: "Implement what's on the projects TODO list.".

I possess no delusions of grandeur of being on the Core Team, having
just started, but I want to do impactful work for the project.

Where is this TODO list?  I looked in the various git repositories, and
some of the userland tools had TODO files in the root, but I did not see
one for nftables and wouldn't know where to find one for the kernel
code.

If there are better strategies to knowing what is the best thing to do,
even if that's back to the bugzilla mines, I'm all ears.


Thanks for the assistance!


SB

Re: Looking for TODO

[Florian Westphal]

Shaun Brady <brady.1345@gmail.com> wrote:
> To find the work, I browsed the netfilter bugzilla, looking for
> something I felt I was capable of, and started hacking.
> 
> If there are better strategies to knowing what is the best thing to do,
> even if that's back to the bugzilla mines, I'm all ears.

Bugzilla mines are good, or look at mailing list for bug reports,
e.g.
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/PH0PR10MB4504888284FF4CBA648197D0ACB82@PH0PR10MB4504.namprd10.prod.outlook.com/

I'ts been on my list but so far I did not have time to look at it.

If you want to have a go at it, first step would be to either add or
extend an existing test case to repro the problem.

(see tools/testing/selftests/net/netfilter/ in kernel dir).

Re: Looking for TODO

[Florian Westphal]

Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> wrote:
> Bugzilla mines are good, or look at mailing list for bug reports,
> e.g.
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/PH0PR10MB4504888284FF4CBA648197D0ACB82@PH0PR10MB4504.namprd10.prod.outlook.com/
> 
> I'ts been on my list but so far I did not have time to look at it.

FTR, Ido Schimmel sent a patch to fix this:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20250515084848.727706-1-idosch@nvidia.com/

Re: Looking for TODO

[Shaun Brady]

On Thu, May 15, 2025 at 04:49:51PM +0200, Florian Westphal wrote:
> FTR, Ido Schimmel sent a patch to fix this:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/netdevbpf/patch/20250515084848.727706-1-idosch@nvidia.com/

Thanks.  I'll still take a look at this.

SB