My participation in Season of Docs

[Lukas à Porta]

Hello everyone, dear team members,

A short message to thank you for selecting my application. It is a real pleasure and honor to have the opportunity to contribute to a project I dearly respect and which encompasses so many things I cherish : information security ; virtualization and free and open source software. I am eager to start contributing to the project, and hope I will be up to the task that awaits.

What should be done next ? Maybe, my proposal could be posted somewhere alongside yours, here or as a GitHub issue, so it can be openly discussed and refined ?

As a side note : I have loaded QubesOS on my Thinkpad X230, and I am in the process of configuring it to my liking (while taking notes). On top of that, I have also installed QubesOS under KVM, and intend to use that setup to capture each and every step required to install QubeOS, and to experiment further.

Lukas, aka Luzeal

Ps: I first tried to post on the Season of Docs main board. Not yet at ease with Google Groups :D

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 12:51:00PM -0700, Lukas à Porta wrote:
> Hello everyone, dear team members,

Hello!

> A short message to thank you for selecting my application. It is a real
> pleasure and honor to have the opportunity to contribute to a project I
> dearly respect and which encompasses so many things I cherish : information
> security ; virtualization and free and open source software. I am eager to
> start contributing to the project, and hope I will be up to the task that
> awaits.
>
> What should be done next ? Maybe, my proposal could be posted somewhere
> alongside yours, here or as a GitHub issue, so it can be openly discussed
> and refined ?

Yes, this is definitely a good idea. I also wonder what would be the
best place for it, we have multiple options:
- qubes-project ML (here) - used mostly for non-development discussion
(organizing stuff etc)
- qubes-devel ML - development discussions
- github issues - also development discussions, focused on very specific
actionable task

I'd say qubes-devel would be more suitable, but github issues are fine
too.

Andrew, I think it would be also good to publish a post on our website
about GSoD. Official Google announcement is here:
https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/08/season-of-docs-announces-technical.html
A page about Qubes:
https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/participants/project-qubes

> As a side note : I have loaded QubesOS on my Thinkpad X230, and I am in the
> process of configuring it to my liking (while taking notes). On top of
> that, I have also installed QubesOS under KVM, and intend to use that setup
> to capture each and every step required to install QubeOS, and to
> experiment further.

Does it work for you under KVM? I guess you needed to switch sys-net and
sys-usb to PV, right?

- --
Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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[Andrew David Wong]

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On 07/08/2019 3.53 PM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 12:51:00PM -0700, Lukas à Porta wrote:
>> Hello everyone, dear team members,
>
> Hello!
>
>> A short message to thank you for selecting my application. It is a real
>> pleasure and honor to have the opportunity to contribute to a project I
>> dearly respect and which encompasses so many things I cherish : information
>> security ; virtualization and free and open source software. I am eager to
>> start contributing to the project, and hope I will be up to the task that
>> awaits.
>
>> What should be done next ? Maybe, my proposal could be posted somewhere
>> alongside yours, here or as a GitHub issue, so it can be openly discussed
>> and refined ?
>
> Yes, this is definitely a good idea. I also wonder what would be the
> best place for it, we have multiple options:
> - qubes-project ML (here) - used mostly for non-development discussion
> (organizing stuff etc)
> - qubes-devel ML - development discussions
> - github issues - also development discussions, focused on very specific
> actionable task
>
> I'd say qubes-devel would be more suitable, but github issues are fine
> too.
>

Agreed.

> Andrew, I think it would be also good to publish a post on our website
> about GSoD. Official Google announcement is here:
> https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/08/season-of-docs-announces-technical.html
> A page about Qubes:
> https://developers.google.com/season-of-docs/docs/participants/project-qubes
>

Done:

https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2019/08/07/announcing-our-2019-season-of-docs-project/

Congratulations and welcome, Lukas!

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org

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[Lukas à Porta]

Marek said :

I'd say qubes-devel would be more suitable, but github issues are fine
too.

Ok, what I intend to do is to post on qubes-devel a slightly modified version of my project at some point over the week-end, alongside other ideas and "activites" for the community bonding phase (like reading current GitHub issues ; mapping and reading the docs). Then, eventually, after some discussion has taken place, this project could be turned into a number of GitHub issues that I will eventually work on solving after the community bonding phase has ended. Does that sound good to you and Andrew ? 

 

> As a side note : I have loaded QubesOS on my Thinkpad X230, and I am in the
> process of configuring it to my liking (while taking notes). On top of
> that, I have also installed QubesOS under KVM, and intend to use that setup
> to capture each and every step required to install QubeOS, and to
> experiment further.

Does it work for you under KVM? I guess you needed to switch sys-net and
sys-usb to PV, right?

As of now, "working" means I can boot the guest hypervisor and launch a nested VM inside of it. But the network is not available yet in the nested VM, and I haven't checked for the guest hypervisor either (virtio device model on the host computer, with VNAT). I haven't spent much time on it, so no need to think much about it, and thanks for the suggestion to change the sys-net to PV :)

[Lukas à Porta]

Thank you Andrew !

[Andrew David Wong]

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On 08/08/2019 2.12 PM, Lukas à Porta wrote:
>
> Marek said :
>
>> I'd say qubes-devel would be more suitable, but github issues are
>> fine too.
>>
>
> Ok, what I intend to do is to post on qubes-devel a slightly
> modified version of my project at some point over the week-end,
> alongside other ideas and "activites" for the community bonding
> phase (like reading current GitHub issues ; mapping and reading the
> docs). Then, eventually, after some discussion has taken place,
> this project could be turned into a number of GitHub issues that I
> will eventually work on solving after the community bonding phase
> has ended. Does that sound good to you and Andrew ?
>

That sounds reasonable to me. It's certainly a good idea to refine the
project during the Community Bonding phase. After that, during the Doc
Development phase, I'd suggest keeping the discussion and GitHub issue
overhead minimal and focusing time and effort on writing, editing,
reviewing, and revising content.

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org

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