From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 6 18:14: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9F7D37B403 for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 18:14:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0280.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.25] helo=mindspring.com) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17G8Jx-000740-00; Thu, 06 Jun 2002 18:13:41 -0700 Message-ID: <3D0008A0.C5389431@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 18:13:04 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Trish Lynch Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: projects that need to be done... References: <20020606170509.O403-100000@femme.listmistress.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Trish Lynch wrote: > Question: > > 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 > patiently work with a fast learner (yes, honestly my biggest fear is since > that I'm entirely self taught is that I have some bad habits, and someone > must be willing to LART me at every opportunity on them until I learn) The easiest approach that a lot of people have taken (I heard the statistic that the majority of people with commit bits today had their start this way) is to start documenting anything you don't find self explanatory. In the process, you will learn a lot about it, and at the same time, you will machete some of the jungle to make a path for the people who will follow. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message