Would like to join the development team

[Alexander Rojas]

Hi guys,

I've been wanting to join this project for a time but I never found time to the tedious task of getting to read documentation and getting to know the code; however I just got surgery and I've been sitting at home without much to do during the next week so I thought I might get use this free time to do this tedious tasks with the hope to be a contributor in the future. I just would like to know, or to be guided on how to start, where to look and so on.

Thanks,

Alex

[Yang Guo]

Hi Alexander,

thank you for your interest in V8. We very much welcome everyone who is willing to spend time on making V8 better. However, since V8 is a rather demanding project, as you may already have noticed, most people working on V8 that I'm aware of do that full-time.

It is true that documentation is some what lacking, and parts of V8 are evolving at a fast pace, making it hard to dive right into it. I think the best approach to get familiar with V8 is to study the embedder's guide to get a feel about how V8 works from the API perspective, and gradually work towards the V8 internals from there (for example retrace what happens when a piece of javascript code is fed to V8 to compile and run).

Generally speaking, small patches that fix bugs or peephole optimizations here and there (that have real performance impact) are more likely to be accepted and committed to V8 than large overhauls and refactorings. So before you start anything big, it's probably best to get a second opinion lest you get disappointed that we don't accept your patch.

Cheers,

Yang 

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[Vladimir Savic]

Hello Guys,

Have some experience already with V8, not to much, but I was involved for some period of time. 

It was 2014 year. I did testing, source code related to simulator, but the main problem we were solving was migration to MIPS processor.

I was involved in V8 MIPS over one company working full-time job.

Is there some procedure to start working in "remote team" as "person" full-time, without involving company or to become part of the company as remote developer, and make salary?

Thank you in Advance,

Best Regards,

Vladimir

[Jakob Kummerow]

Hi Vladimir,

You can start contributing (again) to V8 any time you want, but if you want to be paid a salary, you'll have to involve some company to pay that salary :-)

There are several companies that are paying people to contribute to V8. For Google, you can see open positions at https://careers.google.com/ -- but as far as I know, starting in a remote position may be difficult these days, and also I'm not sure if any V8-related positions are currently listed as open.

Checking the recent git history, I see at least nine other organizations who have made contributions to V8 in the past month, and have presumably paid their developers for that work. I can't speak to their respective job application procedures.

Cheers,

Jakob

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[Vladimir Savic]

Hello Jekob,

Thank you for answering. Yes it is clear :-)

Thank you,

Best Regards,

Vladimir

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