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Re: Fwd: Contributing in MariaDB Project

 

Hi Vincent,
I am working on issue
 https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-5772?filter=-1
And currently stalled at few points.
Can We have a quick chat on freenode or wherever you prefer :)

On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 8:56 AM, Rohit Kashyap <rkgudboy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Vicentiu
> Apologies for slight delay in response.
> The edits in sql_yacc.yy are taking some time.
> I am almost there.
> ------------------------------
> From: Vicențiu Ciorbaru <cvicentiu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: ‎10-‎02-‎2015 20:51
> To: Rohit Kashyap <rkgudboy@xxxxxxxxx>;
> maria-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Maria-developers] Fwd: Contributing in MariaDB Project
>
> Hi Rohit!
>
> It's good to know you are interested in contributing to MariaDB. We don't
> have a lot of beginner friendly bugs running around right now. Fortunately
> however, I do have a task that might be simple enough to tackle [1].
>
> This is part of a former GSOC project called Roles. The place to look for
> is in the file sql/sql_acl.cc, the function mysql_grant_role(). [2]
>
> The way the function is currently designed and called does not allow for
> multiple roles to be granted in one step. It would have to be refactored
> somehow.
> The fix will probably take you to sql/sql_yacc.yy [3] for a bit of
> tinkering there as well.
>
> Feel free to submit a pull request with any work in progress code you
> have. I would be happy to review it. Any other questions you have are also
> welcomed.
>
> Regards,
> Vicentiu
>
> [1] https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-5772?filter=-1
> [2] https://github.com/MariaDB/server/blob/10.1/sql/sql_acl.cc#L6174
> [3] https://github.com/MariaDB/server/blob/10.1/sql/sql_yacc.yy#L15296
>
> On Tue Feb 10 2015 at 1:53:18 PM Rohit Kashyap <rkgudboy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi,
>> I am Rohit from NIT Patna, India. A Engineering Student and contributor
>> in MySQL Community, approved by Oracle.
>> You guys are doing great things at Team Maria DB. Kudos for that.
>> I would like to start and contribute in the Maria project, and would like
>> to ask for
>> guiding in the same, with code base and introductory Bugs to prove myself.
>>
>> --
>> Kind Regards,
>> Rohit
>>  Freenode: rkgudboy
>>
>>
>> --
>> Kind Regards,
>> Rohit
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Kind Regards,
Rohit

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