Re: Contributing to Qemu

[Joseph Kurape <jkurape@gmail.com>]

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Thank you, Manos.

I'm not discouraged by the difficulty. I guess I just didn't know where to
start from. Thanks for the direction.


On Sun, 08 Sept 2024, 09:51 Manos Pitsidianakis, <
manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 08 Sep 2024 10:28, Joseph Kurape <jkurape@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >I'm new to open-source, but I've learned C and Python.
> >
> >I've read the 'Getting Started' guide, but aside from signing up for the
> >mailing list and getting the source code, it doesn't provide much
> direction
> >for beginners.
> >
> >I'm looking for somewhere I can contribute. Could any maintainer suggest
> >any issue they need fixing or offer general directions on the best way to
> >get started?
>
> Hello Joseph!
>
> First, the bad news: QEMU is a sophisticated and complicated project,
> and I would not recommend it as the first foray of serious programming
> to most people. But the good news is, it is still possible to contribute
> without being an expert simply because QEMU is composed of many
> different things.
>
> The usual advice is to take a look at the issues labelled as
> "Bite-Sized" on our Issue tracker:
>
>
> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/?sort=created_date&state=opened&label_name%5B%5D=Bite+Sized&first_page_size=50
>
> Take your time looking at each of them and you can choose something that
> looks approachable to you.
>
> Note: I see that in many issues people say they want to contribute and
> ask for the issue to be assigned to them- no need to do that! Focus on
> writing down your solution and sending it to the list while following
> the "submitting a patch" docs:
> https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/submitting-a-patch.html
>
> If you have any kind of technical question you should ask on IRC, if you
> happen on any developer being online at the same time as you, or on the
> list. Do not ask people in private because not only will less people see
> your question, but most QEMU maintainers only pay attention to the
> mailing list for QEMU related discussion.
>
> If you have any more questions feel free to ask!
>
>
>

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