From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Feb 9 7:25:38 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0E1737B401 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 07:25:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail1.arcor-ip.de (mail1.arcor-ip.de [145.253.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04AF943FB1 for ; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 07:25:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Friedemann.Becker@student.uni-tuebingen.de) Received: from chasey (212.144.228.174) by mail1.arcor-ip.de (5.5.034) id 3E1E8763001EB0C6 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Sun, 9 Feb 2003 16:25:35 +0100 Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 16:30:32 +0100 (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Westeurop=E4ische_Normalzeit?=) From: Friedemann Becker To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Okay, I think I need some serious introduction ;-) Message-ID: X-X-Sender: zxmxy33@mailserv02.uni-tuebingen.de MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi again, after several mails - some of them leading to the wrong direction - I decided to dare the big step: ask for help! FreeBSD is nice and so on, documentation is great, many ports etc, "How to contribute" hanbook chapter and the article are good too, but still I miss most of the point: I feel rather helpless when surfing through the gnats database, looking for interesting tasks I could do. Some of the projects even would look interesting, but e.g. for ia64 I do not have the hardware, binup seems to sleep or to be unsure what the goals of the project are - or I didn't understand - some of the projects don't seem to belong to freebsd.org directly (like ALTQ). I also would like to fix things like my bugreport (kern/47512), but I just lack of background too much, to do things like this. It seems to me - and I think I read something like this recently - that freebsd is low on manpower: port-related bugreports are flooding the gnats-database, so maintainers can't keep step with it. I _really_ want to help, I think of myself as a quite potentially usefull programmer, but I need someones help here. If someone could please divert my unused engergies to the right direction :) Thanks for all the advances in fish ;-) Friedemann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message