All,
I joined few days back with intention to contribute in development. I have experience in device drivers and base port for Arm based SOCs. But i am not sure where to start here in lenaro! I have access to A9 dual core based boards at work, and if necessary i'll arrange beagle board.
Are we going to have some formal start of project emails on the list? how would i know which areas require contribution from volunteers?
Thanks and regards, pankaj
I share the same concern with Pankah. Where to start from?
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:12 PM, pankaj chauhan pankaj.chauhan@gmail.comwrote:
All,
I joined few days back with intention to contribute in development. I have experience in device drivers and base port for Arm based SOCs. But i am not sure where to start here in lenaro! I have access to A9 dual core based boards at work, and if necessary i'll arrange beagle board.
Are we going to have some formal start of project emails on the list? how would i know which areas require contribution from volunteers?
Thanks and regards, pankaj
Linaro-dev mailing list Linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 2:53 AM, Tarek El-Sherbiny < tarek.elsherbiny@gmail.com> wrote:
I share the same concern with Pankah. Where to start from?
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:12 PM, pankaj chauhan pankaj.chauhan@gmail.comwrote:
All,
I joined few days back with intention to contribute in development. I have experience in device drivers and base port for Arm based SOCs. But i am not sure where to start here in lenaro! I have access to A9 dual core based boards at work, and if necessary i'll arrange beagle board.
Are we going to have some formal start of project emails on the list? how would i know which areas require contribution from volunteers?
Guys join us @ #linaro on freenode irc for more interactive and useful hints.
Guys join us @ #linaro on freenode irc for more interactive and useful hints.
Considering time difference and people has to work during the day, IRC
isn't convenient. I'd like to see at least some summary in maillist. Anyway, this is just suggestion.
Thanks, Jiandong
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010, pankaj chauhan wrote:
I joined few days back with intention to contribute in development.
[...]
Are we going to have some formal start of project emails on the list? how would i know which areas require contribution from volunteers?
So it kind of depends what your areas of interest and expertise lie. Usually, people have an itch to scratch, or a particular problem to solve and they start discussing how they could address it. For instance, some people would like to build images for a new board, or would like to build binaries for different optimizations, or an incompatible ABI, or would like to add a new feature to the toolchain etc.
Perhaps you can check how we currently do things and see where it doesn't meet your expectations, then start attacking this problem?
There are some ongoing projects for this cycle where additional hands could be useful, but these are not fully specified yet; e.g. we know some software fails to build with recent ARM toolchain configurations, or that some software doesn't cross-build, but it's not easy to point you at lists of such bugs right now.
Hope this helps,
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Loïc Minier loic.minier@linaro.org wrote:
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010, pankaj chauhan wrote:
I joined few days back with intention to contribute in development.
[...]
Are we going to have some formal start of project emails on the list? how would i know which areas require contribution from volunteers?
So it kind of depends what your areas of interest and expertise lie. Usually, people have an itch to scratch, or a particular problem to solve and they start discussing how they could address it. For instance, some people would like to build images for a new board, or would like to build binaries for different optimizations, or an incompatible ABI, or would like to add a new feature to the toolchain etc.
Perhaps you can check how we currently do things and see where it doesn't meet your expectations, then start attacking this problem?
There are some ongoing projects for this cycle where additional hands could be useful, but these are not fully specified yet; e.g. we know some software fails to build with recent ARM toolchain configurations, or that some software doesn't cross-build, but it's not easy to point you at lists of such bugs right now.
Hope this helps,
Loïc Minier
Linaro-dev mailing list Linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
Wouldn't it be good to have some wiki page on how to get started with Linaro?
Even I have similar expertise as that of Pankaj and was interested in contributing. But from what I understand, all discussions happen in IRC channels, and its very difficult for people living in different places to join IRC at the same time. So, as Jiandong suggested, its good to atleast have a summary mail here.
Regards, -Amar
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 15:04 +0200, Amar Nath wrote:
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Loïc Minier loic.minier@linaro.org wrote:
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010, pankaj chauhan wrote:
I joined few days back with intention to contribute in development.
[...]
Are we going to have some formal start of project emails on the list? how would i know which areas require contribution from volunteers?
So it kind of depends what your areas of interest and expertise lie. Usually, people have an itch to scratch, or a particular problem to solve and they start discussing how they could address it. For instance, some people would like to build images for a new board, or would like to build binaries for different optimizations, or an incompatible ABI, or would like to add a new feature to the toolchain etc.
Perhaps you can check how we currently do things and see where it doesn't meet your expectations, then start attacking this problem?
There are some ongoing projects for this cycle where additional hands could be useful, but these are not fully specified yet; e.g. we know some software fails to build with recent ARM toolchain configurations, or that some software doesn't cross-build, but it's not easy to point you at lists of such bugs right now.
Hope this helps,
Loïc Minier
Wouldn't it be good to have some wiki page on how to get started with Linaro?
Even I have similar expertise as that of Pankaj and was interested in contributing. But from what I understand, all discussions happen in IRC channels, and its very difficult for people living in different places to join IRC at the same time. So, as Jiandong suggested, its good to atleast have a summary mail here.
Regards, -Amar
In fact i was also expecting that discussions will happen on dev mailing list (something similar to linux-arm-kernel). Advantage is that if discussions happen on mailing lists then you can follow topics for sometime and then get involved when sufficient home work is done.
I also think people will not be follow what is happening on IRC channels because of different time zones and work environments. For example i can not connect to any IRC from work even if i have some spare time.
so summary/Question is can we have active development discussions on this mailing list?
-pankaj
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010, Amar Nath wrote:
Wouldn't it be good to have some wiki page on how to get started with Linaro?
Sure, and we're writing documentation as we go, but it's going to remain specific to our ongoing projects for a while. In fact, the current pages (https://wiki.linaro.org/GettingInvolved) point at the individual working groups.
If you have a specific project or topic you'd like to work on, it might be easier to hint at possible work items. I would feel bad pointing people at toolchain or kernel bugs if they only know about development of graphics apps for instance.
But from what I understand, all discussions happen in IRC channels, and its very difficult for people living in different places to join IRC at the same time. So, as Jiandong suggested, its good to atleast have a summary mail here.
IRC is recommended for more interactive exchanges, but we also use email of course; as we ramp up, we will send more and more to the mailing-list. You can see recent exchanges on the mailing-list on possible QEMU work topics, or review of toolchain failures with the Linaro patchset; these are good starting points if you'd like to get involved and you know QEMU or the toolchain.
+++ Amar Nath [2010-06-27 15:04 +0200]:
Even I have similar expertise as that of Pankaj and was interested in contributing. But from what I understand, all discussions happen in IRC channels, and its very difficult for people living in different places to join IRC at the same time. So, as Jiandong suggested, its good to atleast have a summary mail here.
I've found (having been here a whole 6 days) this page helpful in terms of showing what the main areas of activity are and who's currently doing what: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick?searchtext=arm
Subscribe to the bits you are interested in and mails start arriving :-)
Technically that's ubuntu-arm, as opposed to Linaro, but right now it pretty-much amounts to the same thing.
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