Re: [LTP] Contribution to LTP

Subrata Modak
2009-06-23T15:00:35Z

On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 11:06 +0530, Praveen wrote:
> Hi Subrata,
>
> Thanks for the information.
>
> I am sure LTP will satisfy my enthusiasm to participate in Opensource.

Hi Praveen,

Have you found anything interesting to start contributing to ?

Regards--
Subrata

> First, I will start with registering to mailing list.
>
> Thanks again for the information.
>
> Thanks,
> Praveen Kumar k
> PrimeSoft IP Solutions Inc
>
> Phone : 040-27762986/27762987
> Skype ID: kpraveen72
> www.primesoftsolutionsinc.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Subrata Modak [mailto:subrata@linux.vnet.ibm.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 4:02 PM
> To: Praveen
> Cc: ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net; Nate Straz; Nathan Straz
> Subject: Re: [LTP] Contribution to LTP
>
> Hi Praveen,
>
> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 13:43 +0530, Praveen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> >
> > I am a C/Shell scripting Developer. I would like to
> > contribute/participate in LTP.
> >
> >
> >
> > Please let me know, if I have any opportunity to work with LTP.
>
> You have all the opportunity at your disposal to contribute to LTP. In
> fact, we need lots of volunteers to contribute to LTP. As, beginner, the
> first thing to do is just watch over the mailing list to find out how
> people work. And then there are lots of things in store for you:
> (And, off course, first subscribe to this list and this is available on
> subscription basis, which is free:
> http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=3382),
>
> 1) Pick up some area in kernel for which tests do not exist in LTP (Of
> course this area should be of your interest). Try to write small tests
> for them and submit to LTP. It would be better if you track
> http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges for the changes and start with a
> latest stable kernel release,
>
> 2) Execute the existing LTP tests on all the machines available to you,
> and see if you can hit a LTP/Kernel bug. If it is an LTP issue(s), send
> the corresponding patch to the mailing list for review,
>
> 3) Make the LTP provision system more better, so that we can be more
> efficient/effective in running these tests. You can also work towards
> making it more automated.
>
> The present LTP provisioning engine PAN has lots of drawbacks and it is
> old. This needs to be updated, or, replaced with something better.
> Sometime back Nathan Straz posted some comments on it:
>
> http://fedorahosted.org/collie/
> http://marc.info/?t=122540445800003&r=1&w=2,
>
> I need somebody, who can do a feasibility analysis of the advantages of
> PAN over collie, and show the fruits of migration from PAN to COLLIE. A
> workable version of the patch would also be welcome. The work would be
> little tough as PAN has stabilized and we would be resisting any changes
> which introduces bug(s) in our existing provisioning environment,
>
> 4) Another important aspect would be to improve documentation for LTP.
> You can start with by reading individual test cases, understand the code
> (you will be assisted with the minimal existent description, so, do not
> worry), refer to man pages, google, and improve upon the test case(s)
> description. You are free to start from where ever you like.
>
> You are welcome to LTP and i would hope your enthusiasm does not die
> down soon ;-)
>
> Regards--
> Subrata
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Praveen Kumar k
> >
> > PrimeSoft IP Solutions Inc
> >
> > Phone: 040-27762986/27762987
> >
> > Skype ID: kpraveen72
> >
> > www.primesoftsolutionsinc.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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