GSoC Students Recommendations

This page provides some insights for potential Google Summer of Code (GSoC) contributors. By following these recommendations, students can increase their chances of success in the programme and gain valuable skills and experience in open-source development.

Contacts

The entry points for the community is the GitHub checkpoint-restore project, Gitter and criu@openvz.org mailing list. Also, the ideas page contains mentors' personal e-mails for each sub-project.

Getting Started

Starting playing with CRIU is as simple as:

1. Get the sources from [1]
2. Build them with make
3. Do your first C/R by running a simple test with zdtm.py run -t zdtm/static/env00

The links below include some additional resources that you may find helpful to explore further.

• Installation
• CLI
• Simple loop
• ZDTM test suite

Contributing

Once a new patch is prepared, it can be submitted for merging by creating a GitHub pull request.