From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 6 17: 8:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from patrocles.silby.com (d130.as26.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net [169.207.67.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0908237B495 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 17:07:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from patrocles.silby.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by patrocles.silby.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5708I9I004727; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 19:08:18 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from silby@silby.com) Received: from localhost (silby@localhost) by patrocles.silby.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g5707pD0004717; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 19:07:57 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: patrocles.silby.com: silby owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 19:07:51 -0500 (CDT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Andrew Cc: Trish Lynch , Subject: Re: projects that need to be done... In-Reply-To: <20020607092615.B71955-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> Message-ID: <20020606190611.H3036-100000@patrocles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Andrew wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Trish Lynch wrote: > > > what types of things can be done by people who are generally just > > learning thier way around some of the code? is there anyone willing to > > You could go through the PR database and see if there are any problems > reported that you could solve. If you can't actually solve it it doesn't > matter...you're further analysis may be enough to help someone else fix > it...you could post your results to the mailing list...i.e I was looking > at PR xxxxx and I found this, this and this. I think the problem is line x > in x.c but I'm not sure what the correct solution is... > > Andrew Or, if you're so inclined, start working on adding a feature that you find lacking in FreeBSD. Mentoring someone is a great idea, but it doesn't end up working too well in a volunteer project. Contribution works best when it's self motivated. If you can't think of anything to do, Andrew's suggestion of looking through the PR database is a good one. Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message