From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 3 17: 1:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from damnhippie.dyndns.org (12-253-177-2.client.attbi.com [12.253.177.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D90137B41B for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 17:01:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.22.42.2] (peace.hippie.lan [172.22.42.2]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3411F441717 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 18:01:15 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.01 (1630) Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 18:01:16 -0700 Subject: Re: I want to help From: Ian To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20020403204646.GF93885@elvis.mu.org> Mime-version: 1.0 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 > > My suggestion is to have a look at the problem report database, > see if you can solve or help some of them and then bring the > fix or suggestion you've made up on the mailing lists. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi > > I would also make sure to follow this list (freebsd-hackers) > and possibly freebsd-current. > > best of luck and thanks for taking an interest! > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] Could you (or someone) expand on this a bit more? "Bring up..." in what sense? On which mailing list(s)? I recently ran into minor-ish problems with some tools and figured I'd contribute by submitting PRs along with patches to fix the problems. In each case I decided to start by seeing if there were any open PRs against those tools already, so that if other problems needed fixing I could get them all taken care of at once. What I found instead was that each of the problems I had found had already been PR'd and patches were submitted with the PRs, so the problems and the fixes have just been sitting there going stale for months. In one case I found the exact same problem reported in two open PRs (months apart) with different fixes available. I joined the bugbusters mailing list in hopes that would be a hotbed of bug-fixing activity where this sort of thing could be brought up. Instead it appears to be a pretty much inactive list. I've been a programmer for 25 years, and unlike many programmers, I actually enjoy fixing bugs, making changes to existing code someone else wrote, writing documentation, and other things that most programmers seem to find distasteful. But I have no interest in doing work that's destined to be completely ignored and unused. (I got enough of that doing contract work for the U.S. government.) -- Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message