Hello, I am Maithreyi Gopal, from Nuremberg, Germany. I am looking to start contributing to open source projects and would like to introduce myself to you. I have a lot of Software Development Experience to offer. I have a few years of experience working with infrastructure teams on the Cisco ASR9k routers. I have a Masters in Networking and Design I currently work on developing drivers and communication protocols for image transfer at Siemens Healthcare. I want to be able to use my background to start contributing to open source and learn new technologies. I come with no prior open source contributions. If somebody is willing to point me in the right direction and probably help me with an easy first contribution, I would really appreciate it. I am most proficient in C and python.

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 9:14 AM Yedidyah Bar David <didi(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:

>> I am Maithreyi Gopal, from Nuremberg, Germany. I am looking to start contributing to open source projects and would like to introduce myself to you. >> >> I have a lot of Software Development Experience to offer. I have a few years of experience working with infrastructure teams on the Cisco ASR9k routers. I have a Masters in Networking and Design >> I currently work on developing drivers and communication protocols for image transfer at Siemens Healthcare.

>> I want to be able to use my background to start contributing to open source and learn new technologies. I come with no prior open source contributions. If somebody is willing to point me in the right direction and probably help me with an easy first contribution, I would really appreciate it. I am most proficient in C and python. > > > Do you use Open Source in your daily work? At home? Elsewhere? Do you use oVirt? > > Personally, I think it's best to start contributing to software you actually use.

> If you are interested in oVirt, you should probably start by looking around https://www.ovirt.org/develop/ . > > If in "easy first contribution" you refer to a code change/patch, then I might warn you that it's not really that "easy", if you have no experience with oVirt and related technologies as a user, first. I think it took me around a month, back then...

Welcome Maithreyi! I have a first task for you :-) Please go to https://ovirt.org/develop/ and let me know when you don't know what to do next. About contributing code, there are several python based sub-project within oVirt, but first I would recommend to see it running and identifying the area you would like to contribute to. +Sanja Bonic <sbonic(a)redhat.com&gt; would you like to peer for the onboarding? Il giorno mar 19 ott 2021 alle ore 11:40 Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com&gt; ha scritto: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 10:44 AM Maithreyi Gopal > <maithreyi.gopal(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > Welcome Maithreyi! > > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 9:14 AM Yedidyah Bar David <didi(a)redhat.com&gt; > wrote: > ... > >>> I am Maithreyi Gopal, from Nuremberg, Germany. I am looking to start > contributing to open source projects and would like to introduce myself to > you. > >>> > >>> I have a lot of Software Development Experience to offer. I have a > few years of experience working with infrastructure teams on the Cisco > ASR9k routers. I have a Masters in Networking and Design > >>> I currently work on developing drivers and communication protocols > for image transfer at Siemens Healthcare. > > If you are interested in image transfer, maybe you would like to check the > ovirt-imageio project? > https://github.com/ovirt/ovirt-imageio > > It can be a good opportunity to learn about python, HTTP, NBD, testing, > incremental backup, and storage. > > It is not very useful without oVirt (yet), so if you look for something > you > can use yourself now, this may not be the best option for you. > > The project provides a server and client for transferring disk images > to/from oVirt. This project enables oVirt incremental backup API, > importing VMs to > oVirt (e.g. via virt-v2v) and exporting VMs to other systems (e.g > openshift virtualization). > > This is a relatively small code base (14694 lines of python, 193 lines > of C) with very > good test coverage (~90%), and relatively clean code. > > The most important task we have at the moment is creating a command line > tool replacing lot of example scripts from the oVirt python SDK: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1626262 > > Another small task that may fit new contributors is supporting standard > NBD URL > syntax: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1849091 > > Future ideas that we are thinking about: > - Multithreaded checksums ( > https://gerrit.ovirt.org/c/ovirt-imageio/+/113379) > - Go client library > - Using libnbd library instead of our own NBD python library > - Packaging the project for more distros (Fedora, Debian, ...) > - Migrating the project to github or gitlab > - Making it useful outside of oVirt > > Like most other projects, we always need help with improving documentation > and automated testing. > > You can start here: > http://ovirt.github.io/ovirt-imageio/development.html > > >>> I want to be able to use my background to start contributing to open > source and learn new technologies. I come with no prior open source > contributions. If somebody is willing to point me in the right direction > and probably help me with an easy first contribution, I would really > appreciate it. I am most proficient in C and python. > >> > >> > >> Do you use Open Source in your daily work? At home? Elsewhere? Do you > use oVirt? > >> > >> Personally, I think it's best to start contributing to software you > actually use. > > This works great for me, in a way; I never contributed to Chrom or vim, > which > are the projects I used most of the time, but I did contribute to > projects used > by oVirt, like python, sanlock and qemu. > > >> If you are interested in oVirt, you should probably start by looking > around https://www.ovirt.org/develop/ . > >> > >> If in "easy first contribution" you refer to a code change/patch, then > I might warn you that it's not really that "easy", if you have no > experience with oVirt and related technologies as a user, first. I think it > took me around a month, back then... > > Contributing to ovirt is certainly not easy, but with some help and by > focusing > on specific area it can be. > > Nir > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list -- devel(a)ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave(a)ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/devel@ovirt.org/message/4SC5CVSY6KX... > -- Sandro Bonazzola MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <https://www.redhat.com/> *Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no need to answer this email out of your office hours.*

Welcome Maithreyi! I have a first task for you :-) Please go to https://ovirt.org/develop/ and let me know when you don't know what to do next. About contributing code, there are several python based sub-project within oVirt, but first I would recommend to see it running and identifying the area you would like to contribute to. +Sanja Bonic <sbonic(a)redhat.com&gt; would you like to peer for the onboarding? Il giorno mar 19 ott 2021 alle ore 11:40 Nir Soffer <nsoffer(a)redhat.com&gt; ha scritto: > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 10:44 AM Maithreyi Gopal > <maithreyi.gopal(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > > Welcome Maithreyi! > > > On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 9:14 AM Yedidyah Bar David <didi(a)redhat.com&gt; > wrote: > ... > >>> I am Maithreyi Gopal, from Nuremberg, Germany. I am looking to start > contributing to open source projects and would like to introduce myself to > you. > >>> > >>> I have a lot of Software Development Experience to offer. I have a > few years of experience working with infrastructure teams on the Cisco > ASR9k routers. I have a Masters in Networking and Design > >>> I currently work on developing drivers and communication protocols > for image transfer at Siemens Healthcare. > > If you are interested in image transfer, maybe you would like to check the > ovirt-imageio project? > https://github.com/ovirt/ovirt-imageio > > It can be a good opportunity to learn about python, HTTP, NBD, testing, > incremental backup, and storage. > > It is not very useful without oVirt (yet), so if you look for something > you > can use yourself now, this may not be the best option for you. > > The project provides a server and client for transferring disk images > to/from oVirt. This project enables oVirt incremental backup API, > importing VMs to > oVirt (e.g. via virt-v2v) and exporting VMs to other systems (e.g > openshift virtualization). > > This is a relatively small code base (14694 lines of python, 193 lines > of C) with very > good test coverage (~90%), and relatively clean code. > > The most important task we have at the moment is creating a command line > tool replacing lot of example scripts from the oVirt python SDK: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1626262 > > Another small task that may fit new contributors is supporting standard > NBD URL > syntax: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1849091 > > Future ideas that we are thinking about: > - Multithreaded checksums ( > https://gerrit.ovirt.org/c/ovirt-imageio/+/113379) > - Go client library > - Using libnbd library instead of our own NBD python library > - Packaging the project for more distros (Fedora, Debian, ...) > - Migrating the project to github or gitlab > - Making it useful outside of oVirt > > Like most other projects, we always need help with improving documentation > and automated testing. > > You can start here: > http://ovirt.github.io/ovirt-imageio/development.html > > >>> I want to be able to use my background to start contributing to open > source and learn new technologies. I come with no prior open source > contributions. If somebody is willing to point me in the right direction > and probably help me with an easy first contribution, I would really > appreciate it. I am most proficient in C and python. > >> > >> > >> Do you use Open Source in your daily work? At home? Elsewhere? Do you > use oVirt? > >> > >> Personally, I think it's best to start contributing to software you > actually use. > > This works great for me, in a way; I never contributed to Chrom or vim, > which > are the projects I used most of the time, but I did contribute to > projects used > by oVirt, like python, sanlock and qemu. > > >> If you are interested in oVirt, you should probably start by looking > around https://www.ovirt.org/develop/ . > >> > >> If in "easy first contribution" you refer to a code change/patch, then > I might warn you that it's not really that "easy", if you have no > experience with oVirt and related technologies as a user, first. I think it > took me around a month, back then... > > Contributing to ovirt is certainly not easy, but with some help and by > focusing > on specific area it can be. > > Nir > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list -- devel(a)ovirt.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave(a)ovirt.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.ovirt.org/privacy-policy.html > oVirt Code of Conduct: > https://www.ovirt.org/community/about/community-guidelines/ > List Archives: > https://lists.ovirt.org/archives/list/devel@ovirt.org/message/4SC5CVSY6KX... > -- Sandro Bonazzola MANAGER, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, EMEA R&D RHV Red Hat EMEA <https://www.redhat.com/> sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <https://www.redhat.com/> *Red Hat respects your work life balance. Therefore there is no need to answer this email out of your office hours.*