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Re: Fwd: Contributing in MariaDB Project

 

Hi Rohit,

Ping me on IRC, you can find me on #maria on freenode, username vicentiu.

Regards,
Vicentiu

On Thu Feb 12 2015 at 4:14:08 PM Rohit Kashyap <rkgudboy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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