From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 24 17:10:25 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED97A16A417 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:10:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from outX.internet-mail-service.net (outX.internet-mail-service.net [216.240.47.247]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD9F213C459 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:10:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from mx0.idiom.com (HELO idiom.com) (216.240.32.160) by out.internet-mail-service.net (qpsmtpd/0.40) with ESMTP; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:10:24 -0700 X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e X-Client-Authorized: MaGic Cook1e Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (home.elischer.org [216.240.48.38]) by idiom.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 216B71264AD; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:10:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46F7EF85.9020506@elischer.org> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:10:29 -0700 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sanket Somnath Hase References: <4639.128.2.140.106.1190576938.squirrel@128.2.140.106> <46F7E30D.3040409@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <46F7E30D.3040409@elischer.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org, duppugan@andrew.cmu.edu, chandramouli@cmu.edu Subject: Re: interested in working on freeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:10:26 -0000 Julian Elischer wrote: > Sanket Somnath Hase wrote: >> Hi Matt , >> We are graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University. We are >> enrolled in >> a course (Operating systems practicum http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/ ) which >> involves hands-on experience with operating-system code as it is >> developed >> and deployed in the real world. Murray Stokley referred us to you. >> >> We were thinking of contibuting to FreeBSD.We read through the >> description of your project "Rewrite the in-kernel file system syncer" >> and found it interesting.Could you let us know the status of this >> project? It will be great if you could mention some related readings. >> We have already taken an operating system design and implementation >> class >> (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~410/ ) before where we developed a UNIX like >> kernel from scratch. We have fair experience in reading-coding-debugging >> kernel code. All three of us interned at core systems group at companies >> like Google and Oracle in the past summer. >> Our team can invest 30 hours per week, for a period of 12 weeks of >> this >> Fall semester. We are wondering if we can contribute to FreeBSD. >> It will be great if you could give us some pointers towards such work. >> Looking forward to hear from you, > > Now that you have introduced yourself (step 1) that leaves only > the following steps. > > 2/ look at the source to decide what is currently done. > > 3/ find who works in that area (use the CVS logs from the CVS web > interface) to > see who's been active in that area and try contact them to co-ordinate. > (if no one answers that means you can proceed). step 4 became part of 3.. I forgot to renumber the later steps :-) > > 5/ discuss your changes and keep us up to date in arch@freebsd.org for > initial discussions on ideas and current@freebsd.org when you are > implementing and need > to discuss things with people. > > 6/ announce calls for testers and code drops when you are near completion. > > 7/ take a vacation. > > Except for politeness (not stepping on other people's work) you don't need > to ask permission to do any work on this or any FreeBSD component. > > If the work is good and well documented, and passes a good review, it will > be accepted back. > >> Thanks, >> Sanket Hase >> Chandramouli Rangarajan >> DilipKumar Uppugandla >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-performance-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-performance-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"