Re: Inquiry about Contribution Opportunities for Rust for Linux

[Dongliang Mu]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 9:17 PM Miguel Ojeda
<miguel.oje...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM 曹君泽 <caoju...@openatom.club> wrote:
> >
> > Dear Rust for Linux Developers,
> > Greetings from the OpenAtom Open Source Club[1] at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)!
> > We are an active community dedicated to promoting open-source culture and have been involved in various open-source initiatives. Our club has experience in Rust-based projects, such as leading the development of RustSBI[2](an open-source firmware written in Rust, which has been adopted as a reference implementation for the RISC-V SBI specification). We also organize open-source learning programs, including a QEMU training camp[3] that has attracted nearly 1,000 participants, where we incorporate content related to Rust in QEMU and share updates about upstream developments.
> > We have been following the progress of Rust for Linux with great interest and are excited about its potential. As a group with Rust expertise and enthusiasm for low-level systems programming, we would like to contribute to the Rust for Linux project.
> > Could you please advise on what areas might be suitable for our team to start with? We are particularly interested in understanding:
> > Current priorities or tasks where additional help would be welcomed.
> > Whether there are beginner-friendly issues or documentation tasks we could tackle.
> > Any specific subsystems or features where Rust implementation is being actively developed.
> > We are eager to align our efforts with the project’s goals and contribute meaningfully. Thank you for your time and guidance. We look forward to your suggestions and hope to collaborate with the Rust for Linux community.
>
> Thanks for the interest in Rust for Linux!
>
> I would recommend starting at:
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> https://rust-for-linux.com/contributing
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> In that page it is where I put our usual recommendations and ideas for
> contributing. The website also contains information about related
> projects we use as well as actual users, including users being
> developed within the mainline kernel tree. Contributions can take many
> forms, not just code or documentation, but also e.g. reviewing and
> testing, which are credited in the commit log. We also have many open
> tasks related to the toolchain (upstream Rust) as well as other
> projects, of course.
>
> I also recommend joining our Zulip, since that is where this sort of
> informal discussion happens:
>
> https://rust-for-linux.com/contact
>
> I hope that helps!

Hi Miguel,

Thanks for your suggestions.

My name is Dongliang Mu, the director of OpenAtom Open Source Club at
Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China.

I wanted to provide some background for Junze's email. Our club
established a kernel contribution team in 2023 and has contributed 180
patches to the kernel community [1][2]. I also began serving as a
Reviewer for the Chinese Documentation Team this year.

Recently, our club recruited some open source interns, and we are
focusing our efforts on "Rust for Linux" and "Rust for QEMU" [3].
Junze is one of the interns participating in this new initiative.

Best regards,

Dongliang Mu
The Director of HUST OpenAtom Open Source Club

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?qt=author&q=hust.edu.cn
[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?qt=author&q=Dongliang+Mu
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-rust/cc709134-2d28-4ac5...@redhat.com/T/#m584865b82bf8449aec2b3baf422c28faab049dc4

>
> Cheers,
> Miguel
>