From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 12 7:42:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from motgate.mot.com (motgate.mot.com [129.188.136.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF38137B719 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 07:42:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Andrew.Lawson@motorola.com) Received: [from pobox3.mot.com (pobox3.mot.com [10.64.251.242]) by motgate.mot.com (motgate 2.1) with ESMTP id IAA14893 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:42:44 -0700 (MST)] Received: [from zuk28exb01.ecid.cig.mot.com (zuk28exb01.ecid.cig.mot.com [175.12.130.200]) by pobox3.mot.com (MOT-pobox3 2.0) with ESMTP id IAA09183 for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:37:57 -0700 (MST)] Received: by zuk28exb01.ecid.cig.mot.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2651.58) id ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:42:42 -0000 Message-ID: <09C1525B7197D3118A4D0008C7E6EEE0D3190C@zuk28exm05.ecid.cig.mot.com> From: Lawson Andrew-ALAWSON1 To: "'freebsd-chat@freebsd.org'" Subject: Looking for Yoda and some examples of the use of the force... Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:42:42 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2651.58) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org All I've been following the thread on beginners contributions. I'm in much the same situation as others, I have commercial programming experience with Delphi (sorry) and I speak basic C/C++ and Lisp. I'd love to get involved with the project but as has been said there is a major problem with the pr list in that each simple change requires knowledge of a much larger part of the system, essentially we need to understand the system much more than any language. To this end can I make a proposal. How about (should people have the time and energy to do so) whenever a committer writes a particularly illuminating patch, they could also write an explanatory paragraph and comment the code thickly so that we can understand what the code does and why, e.g, a sort of before and after type thing. A small library of such examples would help get some of us past the fear factor of fiddling with the code. On a related note, are there any recommendations as to well written, fairly self contained and well-commented bits of code to learn from, something I could sit down and understand in an evening :) p.s. If any pseudo-yodas need a slave for code-mangling or other grungy work I'd be interested. regards Andrew ----------------------- Andrew Lawson andrew.lawson@mot.com a.d.lawson@ntlworld.com Configuration Control Motorola ECID Groundwell, Swindon, Uk ----------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message