From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 30 20:26:38 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F8B19B5 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:26:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pascal@lechindianer.de) Received: from scummserver.lechindianer.de (scummserver.lechindianer.de [83.169.44.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC78122BE for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:26:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.178.46] (dslb-084-057-053-036.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.57.53.36]) by scummserver.lechindianer.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 358521DB801D for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:26:30 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <5249DE2D.6020300@lechindianer.de> Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:25:17 +0200 From: Pascal Schmid User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Contributing to FreeBSD References: <20130930083034.7d5bf2ff@scorpio> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 20:26:38 -0000 On 09/30/2013 04:30 PM, karan garg wrote: > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Jerry wrote: > >> On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:16:54 +0530 >> karan garg articulated: >> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I am an open source enthusiast and new to freeBSD community. I am an >>> RHCE and have a reasonable knowledge of linux administration, >>> database, Bash Scripting, and C/C++. >>> >>> I want to contribute to the community. I have gone through the FreeBSD >>> handbook, and list of various projects under the community. However, >>> I was unable to determine a suitable project for me to get started. >>> So, I would really appreciate if you could help me find a project >>> that would require my field of knowledge. >>> >>> Also, I wish to apply for GSOC-2014 and have checked the ideas page >>> but found the similar problems as above. >>> >>> Also, if you could give me a link of resources and handbook for me to >>> go through before starting to contribute. >> >> Well, if you really want a suggestion, you could try updating the >> "linux_base-f10-10_7" port that was released by Fedora on November 25, >> 2008 to something newer, say the Fedora 19, released July 2, 2013. >> >> Thanks Jerry, > But as this is my first experience, can you give me some links to go > through before I start? > According to what I found, portsnap is one of the tools that will help me > for this. > > Also, is this the correct mailing list to keep posting on for this purpose? > >> -- >> Jerry ♔ >> >> Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. >> Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. >> __________________________________________________________________ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to " >> freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > > Hi Karan, you should take a look at the FreeBSD porter's handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/ and I think questions@ is the general purpose mailing list for all things :) If your uncertain about some options in your first port I'm sure the friendly people over at ports@ will help you! Greetings, Pascal