want to contribute to project

Thu Mar 1 09:10:23 UTC 2018

hello,

while trying to figure out the starting point, I came across this project
form GSoC 2017 by C.P. O'Donell

https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2017/projects/4925375616385024/

Is this the project that has previous works on the project I'm wanting to
take (#2920) ? If not , please help me find the right one.

Also, please guide me with reading references and some small tickets
related to the project .

Thank you ,
Vijay k.

On 26 February 2018 at 21:54, Vijay Kumar Banerjee <vijaykumar9597 at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Thank you for giving me a detailed introduction to the project objectives
> and mentors.
>  I am interested in # 2920: "Improve Coverage analysis toolkit".
>
> Please guide me with the resources to get started with the project and get
> a deep understanding.
>
> Thank you
> Vijay
>
> On 26 February 2018 at 15:36, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Feb 26, 2018 2:22 AM, "Christian Mauderer" <
>> christian.mauderer at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>>
>> Am 24.02.2018 um 16:21 schrieb Vijay Kumar Banerjee:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > As told by Joel, I sent the screenshots of my working hello world to his
>> > personal email and have also included my name in the GSoC tracking page
>> .
>> >
>> >
>> > + Make Eclipse Target Interaction work with RTEMS
>> > (https://www.eclipse.org/tcf/)
>> > + Improvements to our coverage reporting. GCOV validation and covoar
>> > reporting improvements
>> > + wifi integration improvements
>> > + aarch64 port
>> > + x86_64 port / non-legacy PC BSP
>> >    - This project is large so we would need to work with whoever wants
>> > to tackle it
>> >      to find the best subset for GSoC.
>> >
>> > Based on this list I went through the OpenProjects page
>> > and came across the following Tickets .,
>> > #2920 ,#3222,#2927 and the link to eclipse tcf .
>> >
>> >
>> > out of them , I find these interesting
>> > 1.  "Improve coverage Analysis Toolset " (#2920);
>>
>>
>> This area is mine. The ticket mat or may not be a great description of
>> the goals. There are probably three things that need to be done.
>>
>> + Integrate ran recipes for Couverture variant of qemu. This might be a
>> very small task. Last year's student just didn't get this integrated and
>> was waiting for some patches to be merged on their side.
>>
>> + Verify the gcov output from covoar is correct and the gcov (and similar
>> tools) matches the coverage reports it generates. We have someone from the
>> GCC community to help mentor here.
>>
>> + Covoar generates HTML and text output directly. There is a desire for
>> it to generate something equally useful that is processed by existing tools
>> to generate reports. One possible option for this output could be Sphinx
>> like our regular documentation. Or it could be a data-centric format
>> processed by other tools. The current HTML allows filtering and sorting so
>> not losing information and ease of use is important. This probably will end
>> up simplifying C++ and adding Python.
>>
>> > 2.  "libbsd:WiFi support needs rc.conf integration " (#3222)
>>
>>
>> Christian's project to mentor.
>>
>> > also I came across # 3302 :" Build system conversion of BSP Config(.cfg)
>> > files to pkg-config(.pc) files"
>> > (I have some knowledge of Python, but not proficient in it, I can learn
>> > it better if it's required )
>> > which I find interesting
>>
>>
>> This one is Chris Johns project to mentor. It is an important and
>> logically the next step in replacing our build system with the Python based
>> waf. If you get through this one before the summer is out, then working on
>> waf would probably make sense.
>>
>> Did I miss one?
>>
>> Hello Vijay,
>>
>> all of the projects would be good ones.
>>
>> The #2920 and #3302 are more connected to the host tools. They should be
>> doable with few or no real hardware. But you should ask the two
>> potential mentors about that.
>>
>> For the #3222 you would need some board supported by the libbsd (like
>> Beagle Bone Black) and I would suggest a JTAG debugger (some OpenOCD
>> based or similar).
>>
>> >
>> > Am I following the right tickets? If not please help me find the right
>> ones.
>>
>> The tickets are the right ones.
>>
>> >
>> > Out of these , which one do you recommend me to take ?
>>
>> I would recommend to take a more detailed look at the tickets and start
>> to ask some questions about it on the mailing list with CC to the
>> (potential) mentors.
>>
>> Maybe you could also try to find some small tickets related to similar
>> topics and just try to work on these. That could help you find out what
>> you want to do.
>>
>> > My experience with C/C++ : I am proficient in C++11 with STL . Also
>> > proficient in C language .
>> > My experience with opensource : This is the first open source project
>> > I'm taking up .
>>
>> It's no problem if it's your first Open Source project. That's the point
>> of GSoC: To collect first Open Source experience.
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Christian Mauderer
>>
>> >
>> > Thank you ,
>> > Vijay K.
>> >
>>
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