[MirageOS-devel] Fwd: request for beginner project suggestion

[Thomas Leonard <talex5@xxxxxxxxx>]

[ forwarding to mirageos-devel; I assume this wasn't intended to be
sent only to me ]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Madhuri Yechuri <cosmokramer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: 16 February 2016 at 04:26
Subject: Re: [MirageOS-devel] request for beginner project suggestion
To: Thomas Leonard <talex5@xxxxxxxxx>


Hi Thomas,

> here's some useful information here:
>
> https://www.somerandomidiot.com/blog/2015/11/26/quick-changes-in-mirageos/

https://www.somerandomidiot.com seems to have shut down. (i was half
way through the instructions around a week ago, tried to access it
today, but couldn't). Is there any other alternate you would recommend
for test environment setup? i've made first pass at necessary changes
in mirage-net-xen's frontend.ml
(https://github.com/mirage/mirage-net-xen/compare/master...myechuri:printf-to-logs-in-frontend),
and would love to run a test once before fixing log levels. Apologies
for the delay in getting this done!

Thanks!
madhuri.

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Thomas Leonard <talex5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 28 January 2016 at 05:58, Madhuri Yechuri <cosmokramer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Great, thanks for the quick response! i assume below advice still holds
> > true, in that case.
>
> Yes.
>
> > ______
> > You could start by cloning the mirage-skeleton repository and making a
> > new example based on "console" that uses logging rather than printing.
> >
> > For modifying libraries, you'll need to know how to "opam pin" a
> > modified package for testing. There's some useful information here:
> >
> > https://www.somerandomidiot.com/blog/2015/11/26/quick-changes-in-mirageos/
> >
> > (however, I find it easier to look in the Makefile to find the
> > dependencies, rather than reading the source of the mirage tool, and
> > make sure you do "opam pin -k git" to pin in "mixed mode", or you'll
> > have endless trouble with stale OASIS files)
> > ______
> >
> > i can start with
> > https://github.com/mirage/mirage-net-xen/blob/995bcf518b7c8e41e7db79050948bb7ecc1046b2/lib/frontend.ml#L106
> > , as listed in the Pioneer Projects page.
> >
> > Is there a recommended regression test set? i looked around
> > https://mirage.io/wiki/contributing, but couldn't find any pointers.
>
> There are no automated tests. Running mirage-skeleton would let you
> check if it was working.
>
> Dave Scott made a branch that allowed mirage-net-xen to run on Unix
> (by making the Xen stuff abstract), which allowed running unit-tests
> easily. I think it needs a bit of work to rebase it on master, though:
>
> https://github.com/djs55/mirage-net-xen/commits/refactor-modules
> https://github.com/djs55/mirage-net-xen/blob/refactor-modules/lib_test/test.ml
>
> (many of the changes on this branch have already been merged)
>
> Some proper integration tests that spin up multiple Xen VMs would be
> great too. I know this has been discussed a few times, but I'm not
> sure what the status is.
>
> > Thanks a lot!
> > madhuri.
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Thomas Leonard <talex5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 27 January 2016 at 16:28, Madhuri Yechuri <cosmokramer@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > i am interested in contributing to MirageOS (during non-work hours), and
> >> > wondering if there is a beginner project recommendation? This would be
> >> > my
> >> > first project in OCAML (have 15 years industry coding experience in C
> >> > (Oracle Database Server, VMware ESX) and C++ (VMware vCenter), and
> >> > recent 9
> >> > months in Python (Flocker)).
> >> >
> >> > Looking through
> >> > https://github.com/mirage/mirage-www/wiki/Pioneer-Projects ,
> >> > i understand Logging is taken from recent emails on this mailing list.
> >> > Is
> >> > there is any other beginner-friendly project that i could take up?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks a lot!
> >> > madhuri.
> >>
> >> Hi Madhuri,
> >>
> >> There are lots of libraries that need improved logging, so as long as
> >> people say which ones they're working on there should be no problem -
> >> it would be great if you want to work on that!
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Dr Thomas Leonard        http://roscidus.com/blog/
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> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
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