Re: [GSoC 2013] Ability to save and load virtual machine boxes

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeeshanak gnome org>]

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Nikhil Siddhartha
<nikhilsiddhartha gmail com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,

Hi,

> I am a third year student of Computer Science at IIIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad,
> India. I am very interested in doing the project mentioned in the subject
> (Ability to save and load virtual machine boxes). I believe, I believe, I
> have sufficient experience and skills required for this project.
>
> I have some experience of working with technologies like libvirt and virtual
> machines. I have done a project titled 'A Virtualization Orchestration
> Layer', which is written in Python and included technologies like libvirt. I
> am also well versed in C/C++.

Cool.

Here is what you need to do:

* Get Boxes built from git repository (jhbuild[1] is your best bet!)
* Once you have done that, try it out and if you can find bugs, please
do file them.
* If any of the bugs you filed are trivial (we can help you out in
making that assertion), you want to dive into the code and submit
fixes for these bugs.
* If you don't find any trivial bugs yourself, see if you can find one
from open bugs[2].
* if there is still nothing, we can help you find some trivial ones.

At the same time you want to prepare a good proposal with a concrete
plan of action.

You'll probably get into problems with jhbuild and will have specific
questions. There is IRC channel and mailing-list where you can contact
us for help[3]. Please keep in mind that most of us are in Europe/US
so timezone might be an issue. Just saying that please be patient if
you don't get replies in time.

--
Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124

[1] http://live.gnome.org/Jhbuild
[2]https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?emailassigned_to1=1;query_format=advanced;bug_status=UNCONFIRMED;bug_status=NEW;bug_status=ASSIGNED;bug_status=REOPENED;email1=gnome-boxes-maint;product=gnome-boxes;classification=Applications;emailtype1=substring
[3]https://live.gnome.org/Boxes/#Mailing_List_and_IRC