On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 03:48:43PM +0530, Kiran Patil wrote: > We have a team of 5 students who would like to contribute to btrfs > filesystem testing using xfstests.
By any chance, are these the same people behind http://sourceforge.net/projects/btrfstest/ ? > Is there space for them to contribute? Sure. As an example of where to start, look at a some patches from Miao Xie with reproducers for several bugs. This IMHO is a smooth path to start with xfstests, the task is to embody the test itself into the teitesinfrastructure. The more advanced tasks: * look at commits in btrfs and try to write a specific test for them (depends on the nature of the bug, the difficulty ranges from easy to impossible) * write test coverage for a particular feature (eg. for Jeff Liu's label setting patches) * several btrfs specific xfstests were sent to the mailinglists over time, I'm sure not all of them were merged > If yes, to whom do they need to keep in touch for guidance. You can learn a lot from existing xfstests and review comments of proposed tests. Feel free to ask in the respective mailinglists or IRC channels. david -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
