[Spice-devel] How to start with Spice Development?

[Jeremy White]

On 02/17/2014 08:44 AM, Alf G. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am very interested to delve into spice and perhaps do some work on it.
> What is the best way to start? Can I use the documents on
> spice-space.org/documentation.html
> <http://spice-space.org/documentation.html> as base or are they not at
> all up to date? Is the spice-project written in pure C or also are there
> C++ parts?

That's great, and welcome!

I think the documentation is pretty out of date.  It's certainly a good 
start, and the core concepts in the protocol haven't changed, but the 
web site is well behind the code.

The code is mostly C; there is a (deprecated) client written in C++. 
There is also a Javascript web client.

I'd recommend that your first action is to pick an interesting use case, 
and get it working with code from git.  So either qemu + windows guest, 
or qemu + linux guest, or pure Xspice.

 From there, it gets trickier.  I don't think we have a set of 'easy' 
projects to start with.  The links on the devel page don't take you to a 
list of open bugs, but this link should work:
 
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance%20desc&bug_status=__open__&product=Spice

Most Spice developers work for Red Hat, and they have internal bug 
trackers as well that track their priorities.  But I have found them to 
be quite friendly and welcoming.  They're often helpful on the #spice 
channel on irc as well.

Cheers,

Jeremy