From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 21 07:11:09 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C755916B055; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:11:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from redbull.bpaserver.net (redbullneu.bpaserver.net [213.198.78.217]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F46A13C461; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:11:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alexander@leidinger.net) Received: from outgoing.leidinger.net (p54A5DB60.dip.t-dialin.net [84.165.219.96]) by redbull.bpaserver.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E9892E164; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:11:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from webmail.leidinger.net (webmail.Leidinger.net [192.168.1.102]) by outgoing.leidinger.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9926E5B480D; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:11:00 +0100 (CET) Received: (from www@localhost) by webmail.leidinger.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l1L7B0aM055808; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:11:00 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from Alexander@Leidinger.net) Received: from pslux.cec.eu.int (pslux.cec.eu.int [158.169.9.14]) by webmail.leidinger.net (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:11:00 +0100 Message-ID: <20070221081100.ubrz4jki40o8sk8g@webmail.leidinger.net> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:11:00 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger To: Lockless References: <45DB5A5B.6070007@wanadoo.fr> In-Reply-To: <45DB5A5B.6070007@wanadoo.fr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; DelSp="Yes"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.3) / FreeBSD-7.0 X-BPAnet-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-BPAnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-BPAnet-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-14.864, required 8, autolearn=not spam, BAYES_00 -15.00, DK_POLICY_SIGNSOME 0.00, FORGED_RCVD_HELO 0.14) X-BPAnet-MailScanner-From: alexander@leidinger.net X-Spam-Status: No X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:08:28 +0000 Cc: ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to contribute to the pkg_* tools project ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:11:09 -0000 Quoting Lockless (from Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:30:19 +0100= ): > We (Lucas H. and Alexandre C.) are two young students > from France. We have a quite good theoretical knowledge of C > programing, but we would like to improve our experience in real > projects. So we looked at the Projects Ideas on the FreeBSD website, > and finally found out that contributing to the pkg_* tools could be > great, but there was no e-mail to contact on the page. > So who could we contact to get more informations about this project ? It is ports related, so the mailinglist dealing with ports (CCed, =20 please strip hackers@ on reply) would be the most appropriate, as =20 there are the most people which may be able to contribute with =20 improvement ideas. Basically the entry on the ideas list says to have a look at the code =20 and find stuff which can be improved. Be creative. Profile the tools =20 and try to make them faster. Have a look at the code and try to make =20 it better (maybe there's stuff which should be put into a library and =20 used in all pkg tools). Google around for stuff other people may have =20 done or may want to see. Don't let people lurk you into making a replacement for portupgrade =20 (it may be a goal for the second or third project you want to tackle). =20 For what you want to do this may be a little bit too early. First get =20 a grasp at the existing features and improve them. An upcomming entry on the ideas list talks about the use of berkeley =20 db in the pkg tools (where it makes sense). This was submitted by =20 kris@ (a member of portmgr@), so feel free to talk with him (but he =20 reads ports@, so talking about it on ports@ will not only give you =20 input from Kris, but also from other people). Bye, Alexander. --=20 Hideously disfigured by an ancient Indian curse? =09=09WE CAN HELP! Call (511) 338-0959 for an immediate appointment. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net: PGP ID =3D B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild @ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID =3D 72077137