Newbie Alert
Hello guys!
I’m Shraddha , an opensource enthusiast and a regular contributor to the linux-kernel project. I’m currently an intern at Linux Kernel selected through the Outreachy program. I started contributing to opensource only 5
months ago but I’m already quite active. I would like to join the CentOS
project.Any help on getting started is appreciated :)
Kind Regards,
Shraddha
8 thoughts on - Newbie Alert
I’m not a CentOS dev, so I’ll let others speak to specific ideas. What came to mind though was, perhaps, look at the bug reports on CentOS and red hat, find some in your field of expertise and see if you can solve them. Any fixes in RH will propagate to CentOS (and vice-versa, I would expect).
Welcome!
Thanks for the quick reply!
I found many bug trackers related to RedHat. Could you please provide some links as to which ones need to be fixed ?
Sorry for the newbie question
What needs fixing depends entirely on what your interests are and where your skills are. I would go here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/query.cgi?format
how open is RH to bug fix submissions from non-customers?
I got the impression most of their bug fixes were done internally by employees, a large part of which consists of backporting fixes from upstream FOSS projects.
In my experience, good.
They have an internal QA process that fixes have to run through, but they’ve always been happy to get the solution from anywhere. (I’ve done this for the HA stack, not sure how other teams compare).
I do not know about core but with packages in EPEL (very important to CentOS) I have found that the few times I have submit a patch, the maintainer is usually very communicative and unless my fix is problematic (happens) it usually is applied within a few weeks.
I’ve never submitted a patch to a core package though.
This is my experience as well. The only thing that RedHat has ever done with my bug reports is point me to the upstream projects to have it fixed/altered/added there. They will however, occasionally accept some nudges about updating software that the upstream project has already released.
I’ve seen them do better. I reported a bug in the LSI RAID
firmware/kernel code which required 100s of servers to observe. They went back and forth with me a few times about the fix, presumably because they couldn’t make the bug happen quickly on a server or two in their lab.
— greg