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

[Marc-André Lureau]

Hi!

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> 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.

Welcome!

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

Spice is composed of many components, and support several guest OS and several client OS. Do you have a particular feature or OS in mind? There is a lot improvements possible on server code itself to make it more readable and maintainable. The integration with qemu could be improved, perhaps using a separate main loop, or a different process to increase stability and security. It could be worthwhile adding on-disk cache to the client. This is not so easy but probably a good way to learn more about Spice :) Another interesting way to learn about Spice is to improve the HTML5 client, or the experimental Weston backend.