Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:22:38 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fl=FCgel?= <Jeff.Kelly@t-online.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Contributing to FreeBSD Message-ID: <3CBC4FCE.9D853BFC@herbelot.com> References: <004901c1e528$eabe5800$594bfea9@bender>
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Christian Flügel wrote: > > Hi, Welcome, > > I use FreeBSD regularly for over 4 years now (since I have read an Article > about 3.0 in the c't magazine) and since I deem it such a great product I'd > very much like to contribute to it to help make it even better. this is clearly how FreeBSD has become what it is > > I just don't know where to start. I am a Comp. Sci. Major with not much > experience in the Programming Aspects of FreeBSD but I am willing to learn > so what would be a good headstart? Which projects are desperatly seeking > assistance? Any hints would be greatly appreciated. the "canonical" answer is to have a look at the open Problem Report database (PR database), which you can find at <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi>; - the list is quite long) (and perhaps get in touch with one of the committers of FreeBSD) then, find a PR with a title you like, and investigate (and then have a solution, as a patch to a version of FreeBSD). the preferred way to submit patches is toward the -Current version of FreeBSD, but this version can be tricky to even use, so a patch toward the -Stable version is also very valuable. Happy hacking > > Regards > > Christian > TfH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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