Hi Matt, On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 6:18 AM Matthew Joyce <mfjoyce2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello RTEMS Community! > > My name is Matt, I’m a former US Army infantry officer, now back in school > pursuing a second bachelor’s in Computer Science at Oregon State University. > > I am new to open source, but I am just completing my second (elective) > operating systems course and have a class in x86 assembly language under my > belt. I’m starting my first class in embedded programming at the end of the > month. (I’m excited!) > Welcome! That sounds like a good baseline to start with RTEMS from.
> > > Based on the long-term participation of previous years’ GSoC students, I see > that this community is committed to stewarding the project into the future. > And I see that the work you do is literally out there among the stars. That > is what I’d call a legacy! I know that I could learn so much from the > community, and hopefully, with a lot of sweat, contribute something as well. > > One project in which I’m interested is #4328: “New APIs Added to POSIX > Standard (2021)”. I would be grateful if someone could help me understand the > current state of this effort and where it fits into the greater “POSIX > Compliance” effort (#2966). I notice in the “Small Projects” section there is > a task to flesh out the RTEMS POSIX User’s Guide. I thought that this might > be a good way for me to build up my understanding of RTEMS, prepare me to > better work on 4328, and add something along the way. Is that something that > would be helpful? > Joel should be able to provide guidance on both fronts. Improving the documentation is always helpful. The POSIX code improvements are often a good, incremental coding activity. > > > It’s nice to “meet” you all and I look forward to hearing back from you! > Great. One thing you might consider is to use plain-text mode instead of HTML/rich-text editor. It will make your emails easier to reply to in threaded context. Gedare > > > Sincerely, > > Matt > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list > devel@rtems.org > http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
