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Re: [Xen-devel] Define a new Wiki part for Xen Project.



On 11/18/2016 04:54 PM, Lars Kurth wrote:

On 18/11/2016 15:38, "Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk" <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 04:22:07PM +0100, Geza Gemes wrote:
On 11/18/2016 11:25 AM, Jason Long wrote:
Hello developers.
I have a request and please let me know your idea.
Can Xen experts define a new part on Wiki about Xen developing for
beginners? I mean is something like "
kernelnewbies.org" but for Xen. For example, say to users which
programming languages are necessary, which book is good for learning
those languages and which part of Xen codes are good for start.
I know it may funny for someone here or smeone consider the questions
like it as Spam but be sure it help begginers and other users for
improve Xen and get involved to project.
I like to hear developers idea.

Thank you.

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Hi,

As a xennewby I definitely support your idea!
If you look at:
https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Outreach_Program_Projects

does that help in the selection? Granted it could be expanded, but that
brings another question (Lars, Cc-ing you for this): There are some
projects, like:
a) Re-implement the physical CPU hotplug capability in 'xen-hptool' in
   libxl, or
b) Re-implement xen-livepatch inside libxl

which can take, oh, a couple of weeks to for newbies to get done? But
those wouldn't neccessarily fit in the Outreach Program Projects?
Perhaps we should group them together as 'starter project' or such?

The language part is simple, it is C.
I don't think it's quite the right thing and what Geze is looking for. I
think it's more about, which books, where do you find API docs/design
docs/..., how to build/test/troubleshoot, etc. - I think we have a lot of
this all over the place with a few gaps.

I think the challenge is that what we write down would need to make sense
for a newbie. So it would have to be
A) written by someone else - tested by a newbie
B) written by someone who is just getting started, e.g. someone starting
on Outreachy

@George: this could be something which may be worthwhile discussing with
Rojas

Lars

Hi Lars,

I actually like the linked wiki page, what I really miss is some kind of architectural description, besides reading the code ,which also a good exercise. Currently my main interest is Xen networking performance (saw some interesting prototypes made with DPDK and I'm trying to set up some proto using grant tables). The other area which looks very interesting is the PCI and stubdom area.

Cheers,

Geza


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