Hey Akarsh, Here is some material you would find handy to learn GlusterFS internals GlusterFS Code documents: http://gluster.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ GlusterFS Development workflow: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Development_Work_Flow GlusterFS Xlator(Translators): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://pl.atyp.us/hekafs.org/index.php/2011/11/translator-101-class-1-setting-the-stage/ http://pl.atyp.us/hekafs.org/index.php/2011/11/translator-101-lesson-2-init-fini-and-private-context/ http://pl.atyp.us/hekafs.org/index.php/2011/11/translator-101-lesson-3-this-time-for-real/ http://pl.atyp.us/hekafs.org/index.php/2011/11/translator-101-lesson-4-debugging-a-translator/ GlusterFS Distribute : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://pl.atyp.us/hekafs.org/index.php/2012/03/glusterfs-algorithms-distribution/ http://pl.atyp.us/hekafs.org/index.php/2011/04/glusterfs-extended-attributes/ GlusterFS Replication : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://pl.atyp.us/hekafs.org/index.php/2012/03/glusterfs-algorithms-replication-present/ http://pl.atyp.us/hekafs.org/index.php/2012/03/glusterfs-algorithms-replication-present/ http://pl.atyp.us/hekafs.org/index.php/2012/03/glusterfs-algorithms-replication-future/ GlusterFS Misc: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://pl.atyp.us/hekafs.org/index.php/2013/03/glusterfs-cscope-and-vim-oh-my/ (if you are a vim lover or else codelite does the trick for me http://pl.atyp.us/hekafs.org/index.php/2013/02/gdb-macros-for-glusterfs/ http://pl.atyp.us/hekafs.org/index.php/2012/08/glupy-writing-glusterfs-translators-in-python/ Regards, Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Akarsh Hegde" <akarshhegde340@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Atin Mukherjee" <atin.mukherjee83@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 10:10:26 PM Subject: Re: Contributing to glusterFs Hey, Thanks. i wasn't expecting this speedy response to a beginner. Will take up your advice to learn the development work flow. Regards, Akarsh On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Atin Mukherjee <atin.mukherjee83@xxxxxxxxx > wrote: > Welcome Akarsh. We are glad that you are interested in contributing to > Gluster and thats what we expect as a community. > > I would suggest you to go through some coverity defects we have and you > can start fixing them (will let you know the link in sometime) that will > give you some sort of confidence in the codebase. But before that please do > visit gluster.org and understand how the development flow works. Let me > > Regards, > Atin > > Sent from Samsung Galaxy S4 > On 21 May 2015 21:35, "Akarsh Hegde" <akarshhegde340@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hello Everyone, >> >> After attending a workshop on GlusterFs and Open source softwares >> organised by RedHat, i am highly motivated to learn more about glusterFs >> and how can i join this community and contribute to make this software >> better. >> >> I would like to introduce myself first and tell something about my >> interests so that the community can guide me better as to where can i get >> started. I am a student in my final year of my Bachelor s degree. I have >> knowledge of C, C++, Python, Java and several other languages. I am >> interested to learn more about memory management and file system design . I >> have had some experience with another open source project PostgreSQL. I >> learned about the various modules in postgresql and the various replacement >> policies used in it. However i could not contribute anything due to less >> guidance and busy schedule. >> >> I would like to learn about glusterFS and how i can be a help this >> community. For starters it would be really helpful if i could be guided to >> understand more about how glusterFs works . I would like to start by trying >> to patch some easy bugs which would help me gain deep understanding of the >> system.So if someone could point that out for me, it would be wonderful >> kick start. >> >> Excited to be a part of this community! >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Regards, >> Akarsh Hegde >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Gluster-devel mailing list >> Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx >> http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel >> >> _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel _______________________________________________ Gluster-devel mailing list Gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gluster.org/mailman/listinfo/gluster-devel
