Get started contributing to the DPDK

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 29 Dec 2022 09:44:13 -0800
Tyler Retzlaff <roretzla at linux.microsoft.com> wrote:

> hi Raul,
> 
> On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 10:40:45PM +0000, Raul Ferrando wrote:
> > Dear DPDK team,
> > 
> > My name is Raul and I recently discovered the DPDK project and I am very interested in contributing and becoming more involved. Can you please provide some guidance on how to get started with my first contribution? I am particularly interested in tackling bugs that are suitable for beginners.
> >   
> 
> dpdk documents contribution guidelines here
> https://core.dpdk.org/contribute/
> 
> and in more detail here
> https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/patches.html
> 
> welcome! we look forward to your contributions.

The bugzilla exists here https://bugs.dpdk.org/ bu not that useful.
Most of the bugs are specific to hardware types.

One bug that could be worked on, is the existing applications and examples
often incorrectly handle shutdown from a signal. It is not safe to call the
close and cleanup functions directly in a signal handler; the proper way to
do it is to only set a flag in the signal handler, then do cleanup in
the main thread when the main loop exits.