Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 07:13:22 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to become a developer/commiter to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20161202061322.GB1894@c720-r292778-amd64> In-Reply-To: <20161202024243.GA70440@becker.bs.l> References: <86a4bb8b9cda427885036a5025745b80@gwp> <20161202024243.GA70440@becker.bs.l>
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El día Friday, December 02, 2016 a las 03:42:43AM +0100, Bertram Scharpf escribió: > Hi, > > On Thursday, 01. Dec 2016, 13:34:02 +0100, lukaszgryglicki wrote: > > Hi, I'm a developer, working in my own (one person) > > company. [...] I want to contribute to FreeBSD in my > > spare time, but not sure who should I contact. [...] > > Don't promise yourself too much. I have problem reports with > proposed fixes running for years. I even wrote to the list > that I will not report anything more before my running > reports will be processed, and nothing happened. > > As long as you are not part of the core mishpoke they will > treat you like a leper. The list likes to discuss about > complaints about complaints about spam while inferior > operating systems enthrall themselves about abusing > standards. I can not ACK this. I took over maintainer on some abandoned ports, for example head/print/muttprint, because I do need them, and the commiters guided me very well through the update and patch procedure, as well in other cases while hunting crash bugs, for example in editors/libreoffice. Just search in bugzilla if you need more details. matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, ⌂ http://www.unixarea.de/ ☎ +49-176-38902045
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