[chromium-dev] Re: Two Students Looking to work on Chromium for a Semester-Long Class Project (and beyond)
Just to update everyone (and you've all been great). Mark and I have decided to do the following - Knock out a bug or two individually - Work together on, hopefully, a bigger thing I've successfully built the tree on Windows 7 and Mark got the build started then went to sleep, so all's well as far as the very first steps are concerned right now. I've decided to try to tackle crbug.com/20005 (thanks Peter for the list). I'll dive into it more tomorrow. I don't know if there's an 'assignee' role or something on the bug tracker, but I'm currently working under the assumption that I should just submit a patch when I finish it. Thanks a lot for all the help! It really makes this a lot more approachable. Alex On Jan 15, 4:36 pm, Peter Kasting pkast...@google.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Alex Gartrell alexgartr...@gmail.comwrote: Pam's right in that we're looking for a 'Chromium mentor'. Right. I understood that, and might be willing to do it; I was more concerned with what you were actually interested in working on (in terms of size and style) to get an idea of who'd be appropriate. We were also interested to see what suggestions you had for things to work on. Right now, we're thinking about taking on a couple 'lay of the land' type bugs and then hopefully doing a more non-trivial patch later. Of course, we're still trying to figure stuff out with our professor right now, but we're very interested in hearing suggestions. I once made a list of some of the smaller, but not completely pointless, bugs I was aware of that I thought someone coming up to speed might be able to handle. This list doesn't have anything from the last four months, and is heavily biased towards the areas I have worked on (== a lot of address bar stuff especially), but maybe there is something in here that catches your eye. Some of these are more difficult than others, but I would be happy to handhold you through solving any of them. They would probably prepare you for tackling bigger projects. crbug.com/4005 crbug.com/4095 crbug.com/6177 crbug.com/6770 *crbug.com/6872* crbug.com/6888 crbug.com/7438 crbug.com/7982 crbug.com/9044 crbug.com/9694 crbug.com/9885 crbug.com/12305 crbug.com/13279 crbug.com/13703 crbug.com/14748 crbug.com/16746 crbug.com/18107 crbug.com/18587 crbug.com/20005 crbug.com/20250 crbug.com/22853 crbug.com/22982 PK -- Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev
[chromium-dev] Two Students Looking to work on Chromium for a Semester-Long Class Project (and beyond)
Hey everyone, My name's Alex Gartrell and my friend Mark Hahnenberg and I are taking a class at CMU called Software Engineering Practicum, and the sole purpose of this class is to participate in a large project. This semester, they've opened the door to working with open source projects, and we would really love to do work on Chrome, a browser we both use. For this project, we'll be offering up 20 hours a week (10 hours each) in exchange for weekly guidance from a 'client' as well as two progress reports for our professor. More information is available at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aldrich/courses/15-413/clients.html Experience: - We're juniors at Carnegie Mellon and have worked our way through many of the hard project courses, including Operating Systems Implementation - We both submitted patches that were accepted to Mozilla as part of the prerequisite course to this one (So we know about dvcs, the patch submission process, etc.) - We both have worked as interns in industry after our Sophomore Year (Mark at Mozilla, myself at Cisco) We're pretty open minded as far as the actual project is concerned. One thing that was suggested to me in the irc by rubenbb was working with SPDY. I'm kind of a networks geek (doing some research stuff in that arena), so that'd be cool. But really, anything cool would be good. Another thing worth noting is that I also TA'ed the prereq course last semester and two students (one of whom actually lives with us) were able to submit some patches that were accepted to Chromium, so we know that people have had good experiences working with you guys, and we're excited to continue that. Thanks! Alex Gartrell (agartr...@cmu.edu) -- Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev
[chromium-dev] Re: Two Students Looking to work on Chromium for a Semester-Long Class Project (and beyond)
Pam's right in that we're looking for a 'Chromium mentor'. This is kind of a new idea for this school, so I guess Mark and I are kind of refining is for the benefit of future generations or something. The downside (and arguably the upside) to this is that there's not really an established way of doing anything, so we're more or less writing the book as we go. We were also interested to see what suggestions you had for things to work on. Right now, we're thinking about taking on a couple 'lay of the land' type bugs and then hopefully doing a more non-trivial patch later. Of course, we're still trying to figure stuff out with our professor right now, but we're very interested in hearing suggestions. As far as the technical stuff, we're getting the necessary tools together this afternoon (downloading and building the tree, getting the appropriate IDEs, etc.). We'll likely build for both windows 7 and OS X for right now. Thanks for all the help and suggestions! Alex On Jan 15, 3:19 pm, Pam Greene p...@chromium.org wrote: Not to put words into Alex's mouth, but my impression from his first email is that he and Mark are mostly looking for the weekly guidance from a 'client' piece -- i.e., a Chromium mentor for the semester. I'd gladly volunteer, but I won't be around the whole time. - Pam On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Jens Alfke s...@google.com wrote: On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Peter Kasting wrote: One thing to note is that Chromium uses neither a distributed VC system nor Bugzilla, so your development process will look a little different than with Mozilla patches. Actually you can work on Chrome using githttp://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/UsingGit; it just takes a bit more work to get it set up, and you have to use special commands to push or pull. But IMHO it's worth the up-front cost. You should probably decide beforehand whether to use git or SVN, since the two checkouts aren't compatible, so switching from one to the other requires a lengthy download. —Jens -- Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -- Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev
