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Re: Greetings and Where to Start
From: Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe () gmail com>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 08:18:28 -0700
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:12 AM, Breanna Devore-McDonald <Breanna.S.Devore-McDonald.1 () nd edu> wrote:
Hello, My name is Breanna and I am a junior Computer Science/ Cyber Security undergrad at the University of Notre Dame. I am currently in a Data Structures course which requires me to find an interesting open-source project to *hopefully* contribute to, using the knowledge I should gain throughout the semester in optimizing code using data structures. I recently heard of Wireshark through my Computer Networks course and I am very interested and would love to find a way to contribute. However, I have no idea where to start. Do you think there's any place in the Wireshark code where I could help? (Or maybe, if it seems Wireshark is not the right fit for me, do you know of any projects that could fit?)
Hi Breanna, Wireshark is a project with lots of code and quite a few contributors, however, we welcome more all the time. Probably the first thing to do is to pick a distinct area of the code to work on, and perhaps the easiest is the protocol dissectors. Then you should try to find a dissector that has known issues and also find one that is not too complicated. You could start by looking in the bugzilla database, but perhaps first you should look at the number of lines in each dissector. You can find the dissectors in epan/dissectors when you clone the git repository. You can clone the repository with: git clone https://code.wireshark.org/review/wireshark It is probably better to do this work on Linux. If your main machine runs Windows or Mac OS X, use a VM. You can find the bugzilla database at: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/ It has searching facilities, but you might need to try a few things out to find any interesting bugs you could work on. Working on Wireshark dissector bugs will certainly give you an appreciation for networking protocol. -- Regards, Richard Sharpe (何以解憂?唯有杜康。--曹操) ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- Greetings and Where to Start Breanna Devore-McDonald (Sep 08)
- Re: Greetings and Where to Start Richard Sharpe (Sep 08)
- Re: Greetings and Where to Start Anders Broman (Sep 09)