Re: help: how to contribute to the community

["Wang Mingyu" <wangmy@cn.fujitsu.com>]

Hi Guillaume,

Thank you very much for giving me such a suggestion, and I will take this issue seriously. 
If I encounter any problems in the process, I hope to continue to communicate with you.

Thanks again

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guillaume Tucker <guillaume.tucker@collabora.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2020 6:13 PM
> To: kernelci@groups.io; Wang, Mingyu/王 鸣瑜 <wangmy@cn.fujitsu.com>
> Subject: Re: help: how to contribute to the community
> 
> On 08/12/2020 07:43, Wang Mingyu wrote:
> > Hi, all
> >
> > I am currently using this tool.
> > Although I am still new, I still want to contribute to the community.
> > Is there anything I can do？
> > For example, bug fix, or simple new plan to kernelci.
> 
> Thank you for your interest, there are plenty of things that first-time
> contributors can do in KernelCI.  One would be to enable i386 builds with
> Clang, as per this GitHub issue:
> 
>   https://github.com/kernelci/kernelci-core/issues/517
> 
> At the moment, kernelci.org builds linux-next with Clang on arm, arm64,
> x86_64 and riscv architectures.  Of all the other architectures that aren't
> built yet, i386 should be the easiest one to add.  Doing this does not require
> any service to be installed locally, all you need is Docker and the kernelci-core
> repository.  The work to do is basically:
> 
> * run kci_build in KernelCI Docker images with the clang-11 and
>   clang-10 toolchains to build kernels for i386
> 
> * report or fix any build issues, this might just work but it
>   needs to be verified with both clang versions
> 
> * edit build-configs.yaml to add i386 to the list of
>   architectures built with clang-11 and clang-10 if it also
>   works
> 
> * verify that the list of builds for linux-next includes i386
>   defconfig with clang using "kci_build list_kernel_configs"
> 
> * send a pull request in GitHub with the change, this will then
>   get tested on staging.kernelci.org and reviewed
> 
> If it works as expected on staging.kernelci.org and once the PR review is
> complete, this will then get merged and deployed in production for
> kernelci.org.
> 
> Does that sound like something you would be interested to do?
> 
> Thanks,
> Guillaume
>