Hello guys!
I'm Shraddha , an opensource enthusiast and a regular contributor to the linux-kernel project. I'm currently an intern at Linux Kernel selected through the Outreachy program. I started contributing to opensource only 5 months ago but I'm already quite active. I would like to join the centos project.Any help on getting started is appreciated :)
Kind Regards,
Shraddha
On 26/11/15 11:51 AM, Shraddha Barke wrote:
Hello guys!
I'm Shraddha , an opensource enthusiast and a regular contributor to the linux-kernel project. I'm currently an intern at Linux Kernel selected through the Outreachy program. I started contributing to opensource only 5 months ago but I'm already quite active. I would like to join the centos project.Any help on getting started is appreciated :)
Kind Regards,
Shraddha
I'm not a centos dev, so I'll let others speak to specific ideas. What came to mind though was, perhaps, look at the bug reports on centos and red hat, find some in your field of expertise and see if you can solve them. Any fixes in RH will propagate to centos (and vice-versa, I would expect).
Welcome!
On Thu, 26 Nov 2015, Digimer wrote:
On 26/11/15 11:51 AM, Shraddha Barke wrote:
Hello guys!
I'm Shraddha , an opensource enthusiast and a regular contributor to the linux-kernel project. I'm currently an intern at Linux Kernel selected through the Outreachy program. I started contributing to opensource only 5 months ago but I'm already quite active. I would like to join the centos project.Any help on getting started is appreciated :)
Kind Regards,
Shraddha
I'm not a centos dev, so I'll let others speak to specific ideas. What came to mind though was, perhaps, look at the bug reports on centos and red hat, find some in your field of expertise and see if you can solve them. Any fixes in RH will propagate to centos (and vice-versa, I would expect).
Welcome!
Thanks for the quick reply! I found many bug trackers related to RedHat. Could you please provide some links as to which ones need to be fixed ? Sorry for the newbie question
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On 26/11/15 12:01 PM, Shraddha Barke wrote:
On Thu, 26 Nov 2015, Digimer wrote:
On 26/11/15 11:51 AM, Shraddha Barke wrote:
Hello guys!
I'm Shraddha , an opensource enthusiast and a regular contributor to the linux-kernel project. I'm currently an intern at Linux Kernel selected through the Outreachy program. I started contributing to opensource only 5 months ago but I'm already quite active. I would like to join the centos project.Any help on getting started is appreciated :)
Kind Regards,
Shraddha
I'm not a centos dev, so I'll let others speak to specific ideas. What came to mind though was, perhaps, look at the bug reports on centos and red hat, find some in your field of expertise and see if you can solve them. Any fixes in RH will propagate to centos (and vice-versa, I would expect).
Welcome!
Thanks for the quick reply! I found many bug trackers related to RedHat. Could you please provide some links as to which ones need to be fixed ? Sorry for the newbie question
What needs fixing depends entirely on what your interests are and where your skills are. I would go here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/query.cgi?format=advanced
Then search Red Hat Enterprise Linux (5, 6 or 7), which is upstream for CentOS, pick some components you're interested in and see what there is. Find something you think you can help with and start poking around. If you think you have a patch or fix, post to the bug and see what people say.
For CentOS specific bugs;
https://bugs.centos.org/my_view_page.php
Choose the project you're interested in from the drop-down list on the top-right of the page, click 'View Issues' and start seeing what grabs your interest.
Cheers
On 11/26/2015 9:19 AM, Digimer wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply!
I found many bug trackers related to RedHat. Could you please provide some links as to which ones need to be fixed ? Sorry for the newbie question
What needs fixing depends entirely on what your interests are and where your skills are. I would go here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/query.cgi?format=advanced
Then search Red Hat Enterprise Linux (5, 6 or 7), which is upstream for CentOS, pick some components you're interested in and see what there is. Find something you think you can help with and start poking around. If you think you have a patch or fix, post to the bug and see what people say.
how open is RH to bug fix submissions from non-customers?
I got the impression most of their bug fixes were done internally by employees, a large part of which consists of backporting fixes from upstream FOSS projects.
On 26/11/15 12:30 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 11/26/2015 9:19 AM, Digimer wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply!
I found many bug trackers related to RedHat. Could you please provide some links as to which ones need to be fixed ? Sorry for the newbie question
What needs fixing depends entirely on what your interests are and where your skills are. I would go here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/query.cgi?format=advanced
Then search Red Hat Enterprise Linux (5, 6 or 7), which is upstream for CentOS, pick some components you're interested in and see what there is. Find something you think you can help with and start poking around. If you think you have a patch or fix, post to the bug and see what people say.
how open is RH to bug fix submissions from non-customers?
I got the impression most of their bug fixes were done internally by employees, a large part of which consists of backporting fixes from upstream FOSS projects.
In my experience, good.
They have an internal QA process that fixes have to run through, but they've always been happy to get the solution from anywhere. (I've done this for the HA stack, not sure how other teams compare).
On 11/26/2015 09:30 AM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 11/26/2015 9:19 AM, Digimer wrote:
Thanks for the quick reply!
I found many bug trackers related to RedHat. Could you please provide some links as to which ones need to be fixed ? Sorry for the newbie question
What needs fixing depends entirely on what your interests are and where your skills are. I would go here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/query.cgi?format=advanced
Then search Red Hat Enterprise Linux (5, 6 or 7), which is upstream for CentOS, pick some components you're interested in and see what there is. Find something you think you can help with and start poking around. If you think you have a patch or fix, post to the bug and see what people say.
how open is RH to bug fix submissions from non-customers?
I do not know about core but with packages in EPEL (very important to CentOS) I have found that the few times I have submit a patch, the maintainer is usually very communicative and unless my fix is problematic (happens) it usually is applied within a few weeks.
I've never submitted a patch to a core package though.
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