Re: Any maintainers or developers looking for help?

[Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>]

Hi Greg,

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 01:06:30PM -0500, Greg Gallagher wrote:
> Hi RT users and developers,
>    I was wondering if any RT maintainers or developers that are on
> this list need any help with tasks that they haven't had a chance to
> do (documentation, small fixes, testing etc)?  I've been working with
> RTOS's, Linux and C for the past ten years, I've contribute to smaller
> open source projects in the past.  I'm still a novice when it comes to
> working with the open source community and I'm reaching out to the
> list since if possible I'd like to work with someone to start.  I know
> that not everyone has time to help but I thought I would reach out and
> see if I could help someone clear out some old tasks that need to be
> completed in exchange for some help getting started contributing to
> the RT project.

One thing which could be a good starting point is testing the various
devel-rt and stable-rt releases. There are a bunch of tests tools in
rt-tests (which could also some love). I am sure you will find things
which are not working in either the kernel or in the rt-tests.

Another related thing is automate the testing. For example I'm using
LAVA[1] to orchistrate my small lab with Linaro's test-definitions[2]
as test harness. Everthing is duck taped together but works pretty
awesome for me. I've created a small (but horrible) python script
which allows me to configure, build and submit the binaries for
testing to LAVA in one go.

Thanks,
Daniel

[1] https://github.com/igaw/lava-docker-compose/tree/lithium-setup
[2] https://github.com/igaw/test-definitions/tree/preempt-rt