From owner-freebsd-bugbusters@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 4 22:35:39 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-bugbusters@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-bugbusters@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED5D16A400 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 22:35:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CFD413C49D for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2007 22:35:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: from kobe.laptop (dialup73.ach.sch.gr [81.186.70.73]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id l24MO6DO001526 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Mon, 5 Mar 2007 00:24:19 +0200 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l24MNwiW039629; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 00:23:58 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l24MNoqs039628; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 00:23:50 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@freebsd.org) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 00:23:49 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Volker Message-ID: <20070304222349.GA39577@kobe.laptop> References: <20070224120016.0D9A016A484@hub.freebsd.org> <45E2FF13.4030805@vwsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45E2FF13.4030805@vwsoft.com> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-4.089, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.31, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@freebsd.org X-Spam-Status: No Cc: Remko Lodder , freebsd-bugbusters@freebsd.org Subject: Re: status? X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugbusters@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Coordination of the Problem Report handling effort." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 22:35:40 -0000 On 2007-02-26 16:38, Volker wrote: > Remko & list, > I would love to do more work for the project. I'm not a kernel hacker > but a programmer with 20 years experience under different OSes. > I might be able to spent some hours of my time to the project and I'm > always willing to learn more and enhance my skills. Working on > troubleshooting might not be a bad idea for me. Excellent. The FreeBSD project doesn't need *only* kernel hackers. We also need people who monitor incoming PR tickers, people who work on manpages, people who search the web for news items and inform us of new FreeBSD press coverage, people who are willing to test and reproduce possible bugs, people who write articles to magazines, journals, and other media, etc. Please do not let the fact that you do not consider yourself a kernel hacker keep you from contributing in any way you find reasonable :-) > If you want help of non core members, please let me (and probably > others who are reading here) know how to help. There are many ways. In the context of this mailing list, the most important way to contribute is to go through the list of open PR tickets, then find something that you think you can handle, and finally just go ahead and handle it. We have some guidelines for effectively handling bug reports: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pr-guidelines/ It may be worth reading this article, if you haven't done so already. When you have done this, you can start 'attacking' open PR tickets by going through the list of open tickets :)