Re: Mentor?

Hallo!

On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 21:50:12 -0500, Tyler Earman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Unfortunately I've gone into the corporate world so I can't have the fun 
> of the GSoC project anymore, but I'm still interested in helping out and 
> doing some work on the GNU/Hurd.

Welcome!

> I've not worked on kernels before and I'd like to move into working on 
> it while learning the important information that I need to know to do 
> so; so would one of you gentlemen (or ladies) be willing to act as a 

Heh, I've never seens any ladies over here, I think.

> mentor for me to start working on the project when I can?
> 
> What I'd like is someone who can initially point me in the right 
> direction for books/information I need to read, then help out as I start 
> coding on the project, providing feedback as necessary.

Olaf, what do you think; should he just do a project parallel to GSoC?
That is, pick one of the projects from
<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/gsoc/project_ideas.html>?  Or
are these too big (how much time can you roughly invest in this?); then
we could find something smaller.  Tyler, please start with reading
<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/contributing.html>, and the GSoC
application suggestions,
<http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/gsoc/student_application_form.html>,
may be worth reading too, even though most of that won't be directly
applicable in your case, but it should help you find a topic.

Another popular starter's project, after getting a GNU/Hurd system going,
would be making your favorite Debian package (or Arch Hurd package, of
course) build, if it doesn't already.


Grüße,
 Thomas

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