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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Hi,</div><div>I would suggest the following:</div><ol><li>Look at the bugs and see if there is any low hanging fruit - <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bugs?field.tag=low-hanging-fruit">https://bugs.launchpad.net/neutron/+bugs?field.tag=low-hanging-fruit</a></li><li>Try and add some additional unit tests – pick a section of code that interests you and try and see that it has some good code coverage with the unit tests</li><li>Go over the blueprints and see if there is something that interests you – if so, ask the guys driving it if you can help</li></ol><div>Good luck.</div><div>Thanks</div><div>Gary</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> <Li>, Chen <<a href="mailto:chen.li@intel.com">chen.li@intel.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <<a href="mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org">openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Thursday, May 22, 2014 11:56 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" <<a href="mailto:openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org">openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [openstack-dev] [Neutron] Need help to start contribute to Neutron<br></div><div><br></div><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 14 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi list,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I have using Openstack/Neutron for a while.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">And now I hope I can do some contributions too.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">But neutron is too complicated, I don’t know where to start.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">In IRC, iwamoto suggested me to work with developer doc team.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">That sounds like a good idea.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">But I still doesn’t know what/where I should start with.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Can someone help me ?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Or just told me anything you think I can work on ?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">-chen<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I used to working on CentOS, installing neutron directly using command “yum install neutron-xxx”.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Now, I have already download neutron code, and run successfully run unittest.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></span></body></html>