From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Wed Apr 21 12:28:41 2021 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FAB15E3E23 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 12:28:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from crest@rlwinm.de) Received: from mail.rlwinm.de (mail.rlwinm.de [138.201.35.217]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4FQKbX4NQkz3J8L for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 12:28:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from crest@rlwinm.de) Received: from alteisen.local (200116b86422710008495ec6effb296d.dip.versatel-1u1.de [IPv6:2001:16b8:6422:7100:849:5ec6:effb:296d]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange ECDHE (P-384) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by mail.rlwinm.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7768525A09 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2021 12:28:33 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: How to start contributing To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: From: Crest Message-ID: <3aef766a-3457-6fdf-8df5-cae87dc4655a@rlwinm.de> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:28:30 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4FQKbX4NQkz3J8L X-Spamd-Bar: - Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of crest@rlwinm.de designates 138.201.35.217 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=crest@rlwinm.de X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-1.76 / 15.00]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[138.201.35.217:from]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; RBL_SENDERSCORE_FAIL(0.00)[138.201.35.217:server fail]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[138.201.35.217:from:127.0.2.255]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.45)[0.451]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.99)[-0.987]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[rlwinm.de]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.92)[-0.921]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:24940, ipnet:138.201.0.0/16, country:DE]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-hackers]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[2001:16b8:6422:7100:849:5ec6:effb:296d:received] X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 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 Apr 2021 12:28:41 -0000 On 21.04.21 12:50, MANAV KUMAR wrote: > Hello All, > I’m final year cse undergrad, looking to work in core OS technologies. Glad to hear you're interested in hacking on FreeBSD. > Can somebody please give me a quick start about ongoing freebsd projects. Someone already collected a list of low hanging fruits in FreeBSD that could be improved: https://wiki.freebsd.org/Networking#Low_hanging_userland_fruit > And I have shortage of space and computation power, is there any alternative to generate the build without me purchasing new machine. How low are we talking about. The FreeBSD build system can help speed up incremental builds enormously with the make meta mode (see man src-env.conf). Even my old dual core Thinkpad X220 can build FreeBSD (world and kernel) in <10 minutes with meta mode enabled unless a lot has changed.