Re: Joint project with Git for outreachy

[Graham Bloice <graham.bloice () trihedral com>]

On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 16:26, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe () gmail com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 8:01 AM Emily Shaffer via Wireshark-dev
> <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 19, 2020 at 03:36:23PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > > "brian m. carlson" <sandals () crustytoothpaste net> writes:
> > >
> > > > On 2020-09-19 at 09:12:53, ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> > > > > Hi Jonathan,
> > > > > Hi Emily
> > > > >
> > > > > Emily, you want to contribute to wireshark? That is awesome. I
> think I
> > > > > speak for everyone to send a HUGE welcome
> > > > > your way and hope your experience working on and with wireshark be
> excellent!
> > > > I think there's been a misunderstanding.  I think the proposal was to
> > > > have Emily and Jonathan, who are both significant contributors to
> Git,
> > > > doing the mentoring from the Git side, along with someone from the
> > > > Wireshark side.  I don't think we know yet if anyone will be
> interested
> > > > in working on it, but it seems from the response to be a proposal
> that
> > > > has interest in both projects.
> > > >
> > > > Feel free to correct me if I've misunderstood.
> > >
> > > That matches my understanding.
> >
> > Right - brian and Junio are correct, I'm hoping to co-mentor with
> > Jonathan. Ronnie, I'm really pleased to see this warm welcome, which
> > makes me optimistic about the kind of experience an intern would have on
> > this project. It would be really great if we could get a volunteer to
> > serve as point-of-contact if the mentee is not sure about something
> > they want to send to the Wireshark list, and possibly to come to an
> > introductory real-time chat (video/voice/IM) to provide a little
> > overview and nudge in the right direction.
>
> I am in the Bay Area so I can serve as the point of contact for some
> geographies, while Ronnie is in Australasia so he might make a better
> point of contact for those geographies.
>
> There is quite a bit of information in the Wireshark sources in the
> doc directory, including several README.* files. There is also a
> sample dissector in doc/packet-PROTOABBREV.c
>
> However, it can all be a bit daunting for a beginner so I am willing
> to help get things started.
>
> I should also point out that there are many people on the
> wireshark-developer mailing list who will be more than happy to help.
There's also the Wireshark Developers Guide (
https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked/) and for those that are
sleep deprived there are a selection of talks on dissectors from previous
SharkFest conferences, e.g. Writing a Wireshark dissector:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp_7g5as1VY

and the much more entertaining one with a different approach from Richard
here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFFkC4PdCbI

-- 
Graham Bloice

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