On 3 March 2018 at 22:17, Himanshu Sagar <himanshu14046@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > Himanshu here. > > Having used iptables and ebtables in U.G. projects, I acknowledge dev > team's effort in making this a reality. I'm interested in contributing > to net-filter development and if I'm able to fix few bugs before > deadline(so that I consider myself good enough), I would like to put > up a request for taking Task 1 or 2(here : > http://people.netfilter.org/pablo/nf-ideas-2018.txt) as GSoc 2018 > Project. I did following to get started: > > 1. I did an empty search(no search query) on Bugzilla and found two > "targets" for me to fix: > a. A printing > bug(https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1211), just to get > started. > b. Another somewhat advanced > bug(https://bugzilla.netfilter.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1161), to get hands > dirty. This bug causes entire pipeline to fail and should provide a > better insight/overview to me. > 2. I pulled out code corresponding to 1.a (iptables:1.6.1), and > compiled it. After staring at code, for some time, I believe "static > int list_entries" function at line 913 is the culprit. > > Question : > A. Are these bugs a sensible choice? > B. Which order would you suggest for reading and messing with code? > for e.g read this part first, then this and so on. Hi, thanks for your interest in the Netfilter project! we are focusing in this round of GSoC in nftables, as stated in the ideas document: ==== 8< ==== In this edition, we propose that the students focus again on the nftables [1] project, the successor of the popular iptables [2] firewalling tool. [...] ==== 8< ==== Those bugs are part iptables, so I would suggest you focus on nftables-related code. Also, in that same document: === 8< ==== If you are a student willing to participate in GSoC 2018 and you're interested in any of our tasks, please subscribe to this mailing list: https://lists.netfilter.org/mailman/listinfo/gsoc2013 Subscribing to this mailing list requires approval from the administrator, so please be patient, we'll accept it asap. You can use this mailing list to ask your questions regarding Netfilter's task during the GSoC 2018. === 8< === So, let's please move to the gsoc-specifyc mailing list, where there are already several students asking questions about nftables. The ideas document contains valuable information, please make sure you read it in detail. best regards! -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
