From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 12 6:34:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70F4B37B718; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 06:34:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Rahul.Siddharthan@lpt.ens.fr) Received: from corto.lpt.ens.fr (corto.lpt.ens.fr [129.199.122.2]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f2CEXZr49280 ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:33:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from (rsidd@localhost) by corto.lpt.ens.fr (8.9.3/jtpda-5.3.1) id PAA72159 ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:33:18 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:33:18 +0100 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Damien Tougas Cc: Doug Barton , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for Yoda Message-ID: <20010312153318.L60399@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Damien Tougas , Doug Barton , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010310230724.A292@sprig.tougas.net> <000601c0a9f9$31b88120$103b7c18@palisor.yi.org> <20010311175629.A368@sprig.tougas.net> <3AAC70B5.B533701D@FreeBSD.org> <20010312075458.B1782@sprig.tougas.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010312075458.B1782@sprig.tougas.net>; from damien@carroll.com on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 07:54:59AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Damien Tougas said on Mar 12, 2001 at 07:54:59: > > I am not saying you have to do anything, or that the complexity of the > system is anyones fault. From my engineering background, I can say > that there are many big, complex projects that are done where all > kinds of skill levels are involved. The senior engineers who have all > of the experience assign the junior engineers small tasks which still > have to be done, but at the same time help to familiarize them them > with the system and design process. I am merely looking to see if > there are any of those types of tasks that might be floating around > somewhere. Well, even apart from the PRs, which are a bit hard to dig through (and, as you say, you may not have the relevant equipment), there must be plenty of unreported quirks in the programs you use which annoy you, or could be improved, or are just plain bugs. How about starting on those? I'm no hacker, and don't really plan to become one. The only C code I've written is some simulation stuff which, code-wise, was probably pretty atrocious (though it worked). But on occasion I've poked through source code to see whether I could fix something that was annoying me, or add something I wanted. Sometimes I actually succeeded. Once I even submitted a patch (for kdelibs 2), which got accepted by the FreeBSD port maintainer, but doesn't seem to have made it to KDE proper. (Apparently the patch didn't work for everyone, though it worked for me. The patch is still there in the FreeBSD port. And I don't even really know C++.) Right now I'm getting slightly annoyed by a few small things in KDE 2.1 and am thinking of looking at the source code again. If I had ambitions of increasing my skill levels, I certainly would be looking at a lot of such source code... R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message