Any maintainers or developers looking for help?

Any maintainers or developers looking for help?

[Greg Gallagher]

Hi RT users and developers,
   I was wondering if any RT maintainers or developers that are on
this list need any help with tasks that they haven't had a chance to
do (documentation, small fixes, testing etc)?  I've been working with
RTOS's, Linux and C for the past ten years, I've contribute to smaller
open source projects in the past.  I'm still a novice when it comes to
working with the open source community and I'm reaching out to the
list since if possible I'd like to work with someone to start.  I know
that not everyone has time to help but I thought I would reach out and
see if I could help someone clear out some old tasks that need to be
completed in exchange for some help getting started contributing to
the RT project.

Thanks everyone for their time and sorry to spam the list,

Greg

Re: Any maintainers or developers looking for help?

[Daniel Wagner]

Hi Greg,

On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 01:06:30PM -0500, Greg Gallagher wrote:
> Hi RT users and developers,
>    I was wondering if any RT maintainers or developers that are on
> this list need any help with tasks that they haven't had a chance to
> do (documentation, small fixes, testing etc)?  I've been working with
> RTOS's, Linux and C for the past ten years, I've contribute to smaller
> open source projects in the past.  I'm still a novice when it comes to
> working with the open source community and I'm reaching out to the
> list since if possible I'd like to work with someone to start.  I know
> that not everyone has time to help but I thought I would reach out and
> see if I could help someone clear out some old tasks that need to be
> completed in exchange for some help getting started contributing to
> the RT project.

One thing which could be a good starting point is testing the various
devel-rt and stable-rt releases. There are a bunch of tests tools in
rt-tests (which could also some love). I am sure you will find things
which are not working in either the kernel or in the rt-tests.

Another related thing is automate the testing. For example I'm using
LAVA[1] to orchistrate my small lab with Linaro's test-definitions[2]
as test harness. Everthing is duck taped together but works pretty
awesome for me. I've created a small (but horrible) python script
which allows me to configure, build and submit the binaries for
testing to LAVA in one go.

Thanks,
Daniel

[1] https://github.com/igaw/lava-docker-compose/tree/lithium-setup
[2] https://github.com/igaw/test-definitions/tree/preempt-rt

Re: Any maintainers or developers looking for help?

[Greg Gallagher]

Hi Daniel,

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 4:24 AM Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 01:06:30PM -0500, Greg Gallagher wrote:
> > Hi RT users and developers,
> >    I was wondering if any RT maintainers or developers that are on
> > this list need any help with tasks that they haven't had a chance to
> > do (documentation, small fixes, testing etc)?  I've been working with
> > RTOS's, Linux and C for the past ten years, I've contribute to smaller
> > open source projects in the past.  I'm still a novice when it comes to
> > working with the open source community and I'm reaching out to the
> > list since if possible I'd like to work with someone to start.  I know
> > that not everyone has time to help but I thought I would reach out and
> > see if I could help someone clear out some old tasks that need to be
> > completed in exchange for some help getting started contributing to
> > the RT project.
>
> One thing which could be a good starting point is testing the various
> devel-rt and stable-rt releases. There are a bunch of tests tools in
> rt-tests (which could also some love). I am sure you will find things
> which are not working in either the kernel or in the rt-tests.
>
> Another related thing is automate the testing. For example I'm using
> LAVA[1] to orchistrate my small lab with Linaro's test-definitions[2]
> as test harness. Everthing is duck taped together but works pretty
> awesome for me. I've created a small (but horrible) python script
> which allows me to configure, build and submit the binaries for
> testing to LAVA in one go.
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
>
> [1] https://github.com/igaw/lava-docker-compose/tree/lithium-setup
> [2] https://github.com/igaw/test-definitions/tree/preempt-rt

I will start looking at what you mentioned above. Thanks for replying,
I’ll post back once I’ve made some progress.

Thanks

Greg

Re: Any maintainers or developers looking for help?

[John Kacur]

On Wed, 15 Jan 2020, Greg Gallagher wrote:

> Hi RT users and developers,
>    I was wondering if any RT maintainers or developers that are on
> this list need any help with tasks that they haven't had a chance to
> do (documentation, small fixes, testing etc)?  I've been working with
> RTOS's, Linux and C for the past ten years, I've contribute to smaller
> open source projects in the past.  I'm still a novice when it comes to
> working with the open source community and I'm reaching out to the
> list since if possible I'd like to work with someone to start.  I know
> that not everyone has time to help but I thought I would reach out and
> see if I could help someone clear out some old tasks that need to be
> completed in exchange for some help getting started contributing to
> the RT project.
> 
> Thanks everyone for their time and sorry to spam the list,
> 
> Greg
> 

This is almost always the wrong approach. If you are interested in 
real-time then start working with the kernel and supporting software, and 
then if you see things that don't work the way you would like, or you have 
ideas for improvements, then submit patches.

Cheers

John