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Date:      Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:11:21 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, "Wojciech A. Koszek" <wkoszek@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!
Message-ID:  <CAJ-VmomDACLYPg1Yp8tSJu1zFOviMVzGP-hFqWxnZg_rpngRfA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5086AC06.5070405@a1poweruser.com>
References:  <20121016101957.GB53800@FreeBSD.org> <20121022174457.GB59689@FreeBSD.org> <5086AC06.5070405@a1poweruser.com>

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On 23 October 2012 07:39, Fbsd8 <fbsd8@a1poweruser.com> wrote:

> The subject is Google Code-In and all the posted tasks are directed at
> creating documentation. Not one deals with coding any programs. If I was
> 15-17 years old I sure would not be interested in writing documentation. I
> would want to use and develop my coding skills. To that end there a lot of
> simple PR's waiting for attention. This is an target area that young coders
> would find more interesting.
>
> Such as kern/170090
> or
> replacing the Freebsd Ipfilter v4.1.28 version with the current Ipfilter
> version 5.1.2. This is just reusing the tools used last time ipfilter was
> ported over.
>
> Just my 2 cents.

So where are examples of what other successful open source projects have done?



Adrian



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