GSoC 2016 Implement an init system and IPC for Browsix

[abhish...@gmail.com]

Hello
I am Abhishek a student from India,I want to work with PLASMA at UMass in GSoC 2016,I went through list of ideas and found "Implement an init system and IPC for Browsix" very interesting.I know Javascript and Typescript and also have previous open source experience in Scala.Please help me how to get started,some beginner tasks etc.
I'll be glad to have your help and suggestions.

Thanks
Abhishek Kumar

[Bobby Powers]

Hi Abhishek!

I'm very glad your interested.  We don't yet know if we've been accepted as an organization into GSoC - we should find out in a week or so.  I think it would make sense for you to hold off doing too much until then.  With that said, we're super glad to hear you are interested and gladly welcome open-source contributions.  There are 2 good things you could do at this stage:  get Browsix running locally (clone the repo, follow the instructions in the README.md to build, run the tests and serve the shell locally), and make sure you have access to a Linux or BSD machine.  It is pretty important to have access to a machine with a traditional init system & unix signals to build an understanding for how things are supposed to work.

If (and hopefully when!) we're accepted into the GSoC I recommend you work through the starter task:

https://github.com/plasma-umass/browsix/wiki/Google-Summer-of-Code-2016-Starter-Task

Let me know if you have any questions or get stuck on anything.

yours,

Bobby