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From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@webserver.get-linux.org>
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Subject: Re: TODO list?
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On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 12:59:50AM -0700 or thereabouts, Terry Lambert wrote:
> "Simon L. Nielsen" wrote:
> > On 2003.06.27 16:10:13 -0700, Joshua Oreman wrote:
> > > I currently have a lot of free time and I was wondering whether there was
> > > a TODO list of some sort for bugs that need fixing in FreeBSD. I really
> > > want to help the project, and I think such a list would make it much
> > > easier to do so. If there's no official TODO list, could someone point
> > > out some things? I know C/C++, but I'm very unfamiliar with the kernel.
> > 
> > Great :-) There is always plenty to do.  I would suggest looking at the
> > PR system and at the 'Contributing to FreeBSD' article which can be
> > found at
> > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html
> > 
> > Hope you find something interesting to spend some time on.
> 
...
> Making send-pr result in
> code changes would probably be the most valuable thing anyone could
> do for the project,

Then what would be the purpose of having committers in the first place? :-)

> and it would give him a chance to read and to
> understand a lot of diverse code, in the process, to get up to speed
> on writing his own fixes for PR's without fixes attached.

Is there like a search for PRs with no "Fix:"?

-- Josh

> 
> Just my $0.02...
> 
> -- Terry
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