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Re: Fwd: Contributing in MariaDB Project

 

Hi Rohit,

Since we had trouble communicating on IRC, feel free to send your questions
via email. It's also good that the community also gets a chance to
contribute with answers.

Regards,
Vicentiu

On Thu Feb 12 2015 at 4:18:45 PM Vicențiu Ciorbaru <cvicentiu@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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@lists.
>>> launchpad.net
>>> 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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