[Spice-devel] Looking for help to start learning Spice through bugfix/design

[Fedor Lyakhov]

Hello Spice developers,

First of all, let me thank you for your great software! I'm using it daily
since recently and I'm very excited about it. Certainly the best in class
for Linux guests (at minimum)!

I want to contribute to the Spice project and currently I'm seeking for a
starting point aside of reading manuals. I'm not quite tough a developer to
get in and confirm my seriousness with a set of patches or a new feature,
so I hope for your guidance.

A few words about me and my interests. I don't have any experience in
contributing to free/opensource project yet, though I'm using GNU/Linux
since early 200x and watching related news etc. Hope I can finally
contribute back to this wonderful ecosystem...

I have about 10+ years exp in C++, but I'm not a 'senior' developer or guru
(yet). At the moment I'm a leader of a dev team responsible for a "Unified
Communications for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure" product from one
well-known enterprise vendor (if interested, watch this fairly good 3 min
video describing what it is, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsvUDF827R8;
the name is in video, not providing it here to not advertise it - you can
google up some more info, not so much as this is enterprise product without
any free/trial version unfortunately). Basically it is cross-platform
(thanks to Qt&Boost) SIP phone with proprietary SIP stack and extensions,
and with Google WebRTC media (slightly tuned&fixed for this role).
Supported VDI - VMWare (with its View Horizon) and Citrix (XenDesktop).
This is fairly new project and, unfortunately, Spice isn't included in the
supported list (M$ RemoteFX as well) - probably due to enterprise nature
and customers/sales chain specifics (banks, govmnt etc).

I have a few points of interest in Spice growing from my professional
interest in VoIP solutions for VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure; not
referring to virtual device interface in this mail). I'm thinking about how
to improve VDI components to allow VoIP application working with best
possible quality without much specific work from its developers - unlike
our approach of additional VoIP client (and this can be applied to any
"media-consuming" application actually). I'll share my ideas in a separate
mail later, maybe someone has similar thoughts or even works on this in
Spice project.

As of now I'm looking for some fairly easy work for a Spice newcomer - to
get started and learn some basics of Spice.

-- 
Best regards,
Fedor
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