[Barrelfish-users] Barrelfish: Interested to contribute towards the project!

[Reto Achermann]

Hi Ketan,


Thank you for your interest. We are happy to provide you help and pointers to 
get you started with the Barrelfish OS.

A good starting point to get an overview will be the Barrelfish Website and the 
Wiki. http://barrelfish.org and http://wiki.barrelfish.org/

For questions and and suggestions, please use the Barrelfish Mailing list:
barrelfish-users at lists.inf.ethz.ch

You can contribute by sending us Pull requests to your public Githup repository 
or by sending patches directly to the mailing list.
https://github.com/BarrelfishOS/barrelfish
We will review your contributions and merge them. Note that your code will show 
up after we do a new release.

Please read the section "Can I contribute?" on the rules about which what needs 
to be satisfied regarding code origins.

For any further questions, please feel free post your questions to the mailing list.

Best,
  -- Reto



On 22/06/17 19:16, Ketan Gupta wrote:
> Reto,
> 
> I am Ketan Gupta, a second year student pursuing B.Tech. Computer Science and 
> Technology degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee (IIT Roorkee), 
> India. I'm interested in operating systems and design. I've been keeping a keen 
> eye on the Barrelfish project for the past few weeks. I must say, it's really 
> amazing what the Barrelfish team is doing! I went through the ETH Zurich systems 
> research group and found out that you're one of the people who's working on the 
> project so I thought of asking a few questions.
> 
> I've recently started working on my own operating system and I'm aiming to 
> support SMP/NUMA models (Here's the link to the project: 
> https://github.com/ketanhwr/exylus/). I'm also working with Tiled 
> (https://github.com/bjorn/tiled) as a Google Summer of Code student.
> 
> I would like to contribute to the Barrelish project to get a good idea regarding 
> this research area. Can you tell me how I can get started? Right now, I just 
> plan to work on general improvements and bug fixes to get a fair idea of the 
> codebase. If anything else is needed from my side, please let me know.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Regards,
> Ketan Gupta
> Bachelor of Technology,
> Department of Computer Science,
> Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee,
> Roorkee-247667, Uttarakhand, India.
> Mobile: +919458159635