Re: Looking to help

On 2007-03-09 at 06:12:36 [+0100], Morgan Howe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/8/07, Axel Dörfler <[email protected]> wrote:
> > "Morgan Howe" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I am not a former beos user or anything so noble.  My interest in
> > > Haiku
> > > stems from wanting to get involved in some form of kernel
> > > development, and
> > > Haiku looks like a promising project with a more friendly/encouraging
> > > community than most.  I have Haiku running in Qemu, and am currently
> > > working
> > > on pulling everything from SVN. (That takes a while. :)  If you have
> > > any
> > > suggestions for ways I could get my feet wet, so to speak, I am eager
> > > to
> > > hear them.  I have followed the thread earlier this month from Jan et
> > > al, so
> > > I know some of the possibilities, I just wanted to make sure you all
> > > know
> > > that whatever task I work on may be slow-going at first.  :)
> >
> > You may want to have a look at http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1082 but
> > I'm not sure it's a good candidate, as the locking might be tricky.
> > To get in touch with the Be/Haiku kernel services, you could also help
> > out Kaoutsis with http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/1071 ie. writing test
> > apps.
> 
> 
> Maybe I'll go ahead and start taking a look at 1082.  That should be about
> as good of an introduction as anything.  I'll have to learn locking sometime
> anyway, right?  :)

Definitely.

Another small task would be http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/113 which was just 
re-opened. It would involve understanding the details of POSIX signal 
handling and analyzing the kernel code that implements it.

CU, Ingo

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