interested in working on freeBSD

[Julian Elischer]

Julian Elischer wrote:
> Sanket Somnath Hase wrote:
>> Hi Matt ,
>> We are graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University. We are 
>> enrolled in
>> a course (Operating systems practicum http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/ ) which
>> involves hands-on experience with operating-system code as it is 
>> developed
>> and deployed in the real world. Murray Stokley referred us to you.
>>
>> We were thinking of contibuting to FreeBSD.We read through the 
>> description of your project "Rewrite the in-kernel file system syncer" 
>> and found it interesting.Could you let us know the status of this 
>> project? It will be great if you could mention some related readings.
>>    We have already taken an operating system design and implementation 
>> class
>> (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~410/ ) before where we developed a UNIX like
>> kernel from scratch. We have fair experience in reading-coding-debugging
>> kernel code. All three of us interned at core systems group at companies
>> like Google and Oracle in the past summer.
>>    Our team can invest 30 hours per week, for a period of 12 weeks of 
>> this
>> Fall semester. We are wondering if we can contribute to FreeBSD.
>> It will be great if you could give us some pointers towards such work.
>>    Looking forward to hear from you,
> 
> Now that you have introduced yourself (step 1) that leaves only
> the following steps.
> 
> 2/ look at the source to decide what is currently done.
> 
> 3/ find who works in that area (use the CVS logs from the CVS web 
> interface) to
> see who's been active in that area and try contact them to co-ordinate. 
> (if no one answers that means you can proceed).

step 4 became part of 3.. I forgot to renumber the later steps :-)

> 
> 5/ discuss your changes and keep us up to date in arch at freebsd.org for 
> initial discussions on ideas and current at freebsd.org when you are 
> implementing and need
> to discuss things with people.
> 
> 6/ announce calls for testers and code drops when you are near completion.
> 
> 7/ take a vacation.
> 
> Except for politeness (not stepping on other people's work) you don't need
> to ask permission to do any work on this or any FreeBSD component.
> 
> If the work is good and well documented, and passes a good review, it will
> be accepted back.
> 
>>    Thanks,
>> Sanket Hase
>> Chandramouli  Rangarajan
>> DilipKumar Uppugandla
>>  
>>
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