Dear maintainers of the Podman repository, 

We are a group of four computer science master students from the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands following the course IN4315 Software Architecture (https://se.ewi.tudelft.nl/delftswa/). For this course we have chosen an open-source project to contribute to in the following eight weeks. Our group picked the Podman project, and we will therefore make a set of contributions for our project.

The project consists of two parts: firstly, we will write four essays discussing architecture choices that we will publish on https://desosa2022.netlify.app/. Secondly, we need to make between three and six code/documentation contributions to your repository to learn the workflow for contributing and to be able to dive deeper into the analysis. This is our first time contributing to open-source projects, and we are looking forward to assisting you with valuable contributions wherever it is most appropriate. 

We would greatly appreciate it if it would be possible to open a channel of communication with you, where we could get some guidance and feedback on the contributions we produce. We are currently in the process of choosing the most appropriate issues to focus on throughout the duration of the course. We plan to contribute to increasingly more complex tasks as we become more familiar with the system, but it would be of great benefit to us if you could suggest some possible starting points, such as perhaps good first issues to focus on. 

We have already gone through the process of selecting some issues that may be practical first choices, such as https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/13261 and https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/13266. If there are more appropriate contributions to focus on for our group, we would be happy to consider them!  

Also, we checked the /doc directory in the repository and the published documentation on the podman website. It seems to us that they are mainly functioning as a guide for users. It would be nice if you could direct us to some technical, developer-centric documentation. Or if such a portal is not yet available, perhaps this could be one of our initial contributions?  

Thank you for your time and consideration. If you have any questions or remarks, feel free to reach out to us through email or GitHub.

Kind regards, 

Krzysztof Baran @kbaran 

Rover van der Noort @rvandernoort 

Xueyuan Chen @keonchennl 

Calin Georgescu @gcalin