[fedora-arm] self Introduction and doubts!

[Peter Robinson]

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 7:40 PM, beyond.hack <beyond.hack at gmail.com> wrote:
> thanks Peter Robinson for such a wonderful reply..
> But I still want to ask a few things i.e I want to get engaged in the work
> to test and rectify the fedora for different hardware available such as
> pandaboard/beagleboard etc..
> How to be a part of that? Whom to contact for it..

You already have these devices? If so there's details on how to get
started on the wiki [1] and here on the list or IRC are as good a
place as any to report progress or ask questions.

Peter

[1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM

> I am into FOSS for the first time so, I guess I am slow a bit.  Please help
> me out..
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> Thanks
>
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> On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 4:38 PM, beyond.hack <beyond.hack at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > hello experts,
>> >
>> > Myself Saurabh Shandilya, an undergraduate from Electronics background,
>> > I am
>> > highly interested in developing and contributing anything to Fedora-arm.
>> > I am an Embedded Linux developer, ported linux and its few distros on
>> > ARM
>> > based single board computers like that of Beaglebone/board and have a
>> > programming experience  in blueboard etc..
>> >
>> > I am confused how to approach to contribute to the Fedora-arm and what
>> > all
>> > to learn for it..
>>
>> It's hard to give you a list of things to do. The ARM component
>> operates in the same way as the rest of the project. There's a lot of
>> stuff to be done, almost an infinite list, so you need to have a look
>> around and work out what your interested in and get stuck in. It's
>> worth finding out when you do find something your interested in if
>> someone else is working on it so you can co-ordinate with them.
>>
>> To give you some ideas we have some packages that need fixing [1]
>> including some that might need some coding done. There's kernel and HW
>> support that could be cleaned up and possibly support for new kernels
>> added or even kernel coding. There's packaging for things like HW
>> specific functionality and support. There's testing of Fedora on
>> various HW you might have and testing that all the functionality works
>> as expected from network to GPIO.
>>
>> Ultimately you know what interests you so have a poke around and see
>> how you get on, I'm sure you'll find lots of stuff that can be done
>> :-)
>>
>> Peter
>>
>> [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Fedora17_rawhide
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> beyond
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