Hi all,
        As of this week, I fixed all the issues because of which some of tests were failing(It was due to some antivirus issues and had to change git configuration as well). 
        I was asked to work on MDEV-12321, a side project that my mentor asked me fix so that I can learn to climb ropes. For this MDEV, Sergei told me what needs to be done and how it will be done. We decided to fix it within May, so right now I am working on this issue and have prepared pseudocode as per which I am progressing and will fix it probably within 2-3 days. Fixing MDEV-12321 will definitely help me knowing the codebase and that will eventually help me in the main project.
        
        Progress on MDEV-12321-
        1. Created a function hash_method() which will calculate hash of the plain text password.
        2. Provided it to  mysql_native_password, mysql_old_password, ed25519 plugins.
        (Right now creating tests for it)
        
        TODOs- Extend CREATE USER, GRANT and SET PASSWORD to provide this method.

Kind regards,
Ankit Kumar
IRC Nick- AspiringMind

On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:55 AM, ANKIT KUMAR <ak022856@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, 
   Yes I am looking forward to make some contributions in the coming week. Fixing MDEV-12321 will definitely help me in getting the head start.

Kind regards,
Ankit Kumar

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 8:49 PM, Sergei Golubchik <serg@mariadb.org> wrote:
Hi, ANKIT!

On May 22, ANKIT KUMAR wrote:
> Hi all,
>         I am Ankit Kumar and I have been selected to work on allowing
> multiple authentication methods to same user. These are the few things I
> did this week-
>         1. Setted up Development environment on Windows.
>            Resolved few issues which I was facing, some MariaDB members
> really helped me whenever I needed their help.

Good!

>         2. Read the Testing Framework Documentation of MariaDB in order to
> see how testing is performed.
>         3. I have been regularly communicating with the Mentor and other
> MariaDB Contributors in order in get deep insight of the problems that I
> would be working on during Coding Period.
>
>         These are some basic things that I would need during official
> coding period, so I wont be wasting time on such things. Now I can get
> Started with my project.

Yes, good thinking. Now you can look at MDEV-12321 to start getting
familiar with the code base.

Regards,
Sergei
Chief Architect MariaDB
and security@mariadb.org