Xen Project Development Projects

From Xen

The table below goes to smaller projects that newcomers to the developer community may pick up. Note that different sub-projects will have projects in different locations.

Xen Project Team Project List Small Code Contributions Contact Information
Hypervisor, mini-os and other core technology projects
Hypervisor

Skills needed:
Linux/BSD, C, scripting
Outreach Program Projects An easy way to get started (and show that you can set up the Xen Development Environment, fix an issue, build and test Xen, submit a patch, etc.) is to address a suitable number of Coverity Scan issues. Ask on xen-devel@ for a set of suitable Coverity issues. Note that this does not require any access to the Coverity scan results. Open bugs to fix under the Small Code Contribution Requirement can also be found on bugs.xenproject.org.

Also note that to do Hypervisor development, you will need to have the correct hardware. You can find more information on how to check whether you have the right hardware at Outreachy/Hypervisor.

xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
IRC: #xendevel
Unikernel related projects
Unikraft

Skills needed:
Linux/BSD, C, scripting
Outreach Program Projects Ask on the list minios-devel@lists.xenproject.org
IRC: #xendevel
Mirage OS

Skills needed:
Linux/BSD, OCaml
MirageOS Pioneer Projects Ask on the list mirageos-devel@lists.xenproject.org
IRC: #mirage
Tools related projects
Infrastructure & Community Infra and Community Projects These may differ per individual project. Projects that are currently available cover projects such as improving a code review dashboard, process and tools related work, test and test infrastructure related projects, etc. These may differ per individual project. Contact information for projects are:
  • Mentor and other contact details in the project
    always CC xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
    IRC: #xendevel
XAPI

Skills needed:
Linux/BSD, OCaml
None at this stage Ask on the list xen-api@lists.xenproject.org
IRC: #xenapi