[Gluster-devel] Contributing to glusterFs

Joseph Fernandes josferna at redhat.com
Thu May 21 17:17:51 UTC 2015


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:
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http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Development_Work_Flow


GlusterFS Xlator(Translators):
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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 :
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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 :
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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:
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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 at gmail.com>
To: "Atin Mukherjee" <atin.mukherjee83 at gmail.com>
Cc: "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel at gluster.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2015 10:10:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] 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 at gmail.com
> 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 at gmail.com> 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
>>
>>
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