Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:13:59 +0100 From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> To: Fred Bertram <fred.bertram@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Would like some simple volunteer work Message-ID: <20071116121359.5db066ax5wwcsgog@webmail.leidinger.net> In-Reply-To: <473d5781.22528c0a.2758.0843@mx.google.com> References: <mailman.6110.1195197866.98816.freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> <473d5781.22528c0a.2758.0843@mx.google.com>
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Quoting Fred Bertram <fred.bertram@gmail.com> (from Fri, 16 Nov 2007 =20 17:40:23 +0800): > Just want to enhance my skills and hopefully benefit this online =20 > software community in some way. I enjoy C programming in particular, =20 > havn't really mastered it or other languages. I'd like to practice =20 > by doing whatever though if anybody understands where i'm coming from. As people told you already: the PR database is a good start. Don't be =20 afraid if you don't understand something. Either proceed to the next =20 problem, or just try to start (often a problem looks big from far =20 away, but when you go closer and look around, it's not that big =20 anymore). In case you can not find answers (in our man pages or the =20 source) to questions you come up with while looking at a problem, feel =20 free to ask on the lists (pick one which seems appropriate for the =20 topic you need an answer for). If at some point you feel more confident in what you can do, and you =20 want to do something else than solving problems in our PR database: we =20 also have the ideas list (http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/). =20 It's not a TODO list, it's an ideas list. Projects without technical =20 contacts need an investigation if it is beneficial to have it in =20 FreeBSD or not. It does not contain everything, some specific =20 subprojects have for example a real TODO list. If you provide patches, don't feel bad if someone moans about the =20 quality (it may or may not happen, we are in a public place and all =20 kinds of persons are around). Take it as an opportunity to improve =20 (either the patches, or the way of the presentation/explanation). Bye, Alexander. --=20 Although the moon is smaller than the earth, it is farther away. 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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