GSoC 2026

GSoC Students Recommendations

GSoC Students Recommendations

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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[edit]

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[edit]

Starting playing with CRIU is as simple as:

  • Get the sources from the GitHub repository - Build them with make

  • 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.

Contributing[edit]

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

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