Hi Matt, > I have been wanting to contribute to a oss project in my free time. > libparted seems like it might be able to satisfy my goals:
That's great news! > While the library portions of this seem to align with notes 1 and 2 > above, I feel I need a bit of guidance as to where to start. The > following are some ideas (not sure if any of these have been mentioned > for 'Edge'. > > 1 - Non-destructive partitioning > 2 - Disk profiling (benchmarking) > 3 - Employ encryption or techniques for disguising partition level information These are indeed great ideas and we would love to incorporate these features into libparted. Point 1 is on the agenda for Edge, while Point 3 may not fall into the category of what libparted must do; but of course that is open to discussion! > While I have never done any such coding for partitioners, I do trust > that there is a good, small/quick, project I can dedicate some time > to. I would appreciate any type of suggestion to such. Thanks again. > Is there a irc server frequented by the libparted team (oftc, > freenode?) We will be very glad to guide you through libparted and help you with your first contribution - do join us on #parted on Freenode. Quite a few of us hang around there. (My nick is KillerX) Cheers! -- Anant Narayanan http://www.kix.in/ gpg --recv-keys 0EF6914E <[EMAIL PROTECTED],gentoo.org,php.net> _______________________________________________ parted-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/parted-devel
