Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 08:11:00 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Lockless <lockless@wanadoo.fr> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to contribute to the pkg_* tools project ? Message-ID: <20070221081100.ubrz4jki40o8sk8g@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <45DB5A5B.6070007@wanadoo.fr> References: <45DB5A5B.6070007@wanadoo.fr>
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Quoting Lockless <lockless@wanadoo.fr> (from Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:30:19 +0100= ): > We (Lucas <Bobby> H. and Alexandre <Lock> 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
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