From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 16 9:22:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (d013.dhcp212-198-27.noos.fr [212.198.27.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4815E37B404 for ; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:22:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from herbelot.com (tulipe.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.5]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA21242; Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:22:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Message-ID: <3CBC4FCE.9D853BFC@herbelot.com> Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 18:22:38 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fl=FCgel?= Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Contributing to FreeBSD References: <004901c1e528$eabe5800$594bfea9@bender> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 - 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