Re: [Xen-devel] [Outreachy]Code Standards Checking using clang-format

[nimisha agarwal <nimishaag2212@xxxxxxxxx>]

The idea is a nice one, well this would help me to get familiar with the skills needed for the current project

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 09:22:37AM -0500, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> On 9/26/16 3:53 PM, nimisha agarwal wrote:
> > Hello,
> >  I wish to take part in the Outreach Program this time. The
> > second  project that interest me is *Code Standards Checking using
> > clang-format. *I am currently looking through clang-format so I could
> > get to know how to use it.
> > To get started, if you could suggest couple of small bitesize work-items
> > so I could start contributing and get familiar with the codebase.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Nimisha
>
> Hi Nimisha,
>
> Sounds great. At this time I'm personally not very familiar with some
> bite sized items to get started with contributing but I've CC'd Wei and
> I'm hoping he's got some ideas.

I don't have anything in mind at the moment.

However, I think it would be more useful to design a small task to test
applicants' proficiency in the skills we care about than ask them to
make simple modifications to the code base.

See <d9b5890f-8620-49f3-1d6a-0e414d551c4a@xxxxxxxxxx> for an example.

Wei.


>
> --
> Doug Goldstein
>

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