On 12/15/19 5:22 PM, Utsav Parmar wrote:

To whom it may concern,

I'm Utsav Parmar, pursuing my B. Tech in Computer Engineering. I like to work on new technologies and am currently looking for open-source projects to contribute to.

As it may turn out, I've got a college project in my curriculum this semester under “Software Development Practice”, and I'd like to work upon a project and/or a feature in pipeline spanning over 3 months in Libvirt organization as a part of the same college project. My mentor cum professor has already agreed for the same, given that I get approval from one of the maintainers. So, if possible, will you please allot me something to work upon?

Hi, it's always nice to see people interested in open source. Usually, people chose what they want to work on, it's very rare to tell others what to do, but since you are seeking some mentoring I am willing to guide you. Firstly, you need to set your development environment. I don't know what distribution you are using, but on Fedora it is sufficient to 'dnf build-dep libvirt' plus you might need to install some missing packages like git. Once you're done you should be able to clone and build from our repo: git clone git://libvirt.org/libvirt.git libvirt.git cd libvirt.git mkdir _build && cd _build && ../autogen.sh --system make -j10 all syntax-check check The autogen.sh script will run configure which will error out if you're missing anything crucial. Now, I don't know how strong your C skills are, but you can start by picking a task from our list of beginner projects: https://wiki.libvirt.org/page/BiteSizedTasks We can discuss this further off the list. There is also a document which covers first steps: https://libvirt.org/hacking.html Please reply off the list what is it that you are interested in and I will try to come up with a task suitable for you. Or catch me on IRC channel (nick is mprivozn): https://libvirt.org/contact.html#irc Michal