"Zhang, Li ((Victor,ES-OCTO-HCC-CHINA-BJ))" <li.zhang23 at hp.com> writes: > Dear stackers, > > Recently, I am planning to hack the source of the nova project, it is really a huge project in openstack! > > I got lost in where to start from, anybody out there can give a hint > on this? I also started recently. 1. First thing I did is to go through 'Contribute to OpenStack' section in the wiki page https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Main_Page 2. docs.openstack.org also has several documentations. 3. For nova https://launchpad.net/nova page has links to more documents. If you are looking at low level API documentation here it is http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/devref/index.html 4. The following links were also helpful http://www.sandywalsh.com/2012/04/openstack-nova-internals-pt1-overview.html http://www.sandywalsh.com/2012/09/openstack-nova-internals-pt2-services.html After this there were no follow-up articles. 5. This document is very high level but has a comprehensive diagram in it http://www.sandywalsh.com/2012/09/openstack-nova-internals-pt2-services.html I hope this helps. If you find anything interesting, let me know. Thanks and Regards Noorul