From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 28 01:01:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D9E137B404 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 01:01:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net (heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.189]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE2D144015 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 01:01:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from user-2ivfjii.dialup.mindspring.com ([165.247.206.82] helo=mindspring.com) by heron.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19WAeY-0006AD-00; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 01:01:47 -0700 Message-ID: <3EFD4AF6.F8F471D6@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 00:59:50 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Simon L. Nielsen" References: <20030627231013.GA41033@webserver.get-linux.org> <20030627231805.GB410@nitro.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a42e05519d3c4ced28567f6e339c787bfea2d4e88014a4647c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TODO list? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 08:01:50 -0000 "Simon L. Nielsen" wrote: > On 2003.06.27 16:10:13 -0700, Joshua Oreman wrote: > > I currently have a lot of free time and I was wondering whether there was > > a TODO list of some sort for bugs that need fixing in FreeBSD. I really > > want to help the project, and I think such a list would make it much > > easier to do so. If there's no official TODO list, could someone point > > out some things? I know C/C++, but I'm very unfamiliar with the kernel. > > Great :-) There is always plenty to do. I would suggest looking at the > PR system and at the 'Contributing to FreeBSD' article which can be > found at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/index.html > > Hope you find something interesting to spend some time on. Give him a commit bit, and he can quickly grind through all the PR's that already have diff's attached to them, and have just sat there forever. All he'd need to do was verify that there was a problem that was being fixed, and the code didn't look like it would cause damage. If it ends up causing damage anyway, the fix can always be backed out later. Making send-pr actually result in code changes would probably be the most valuable thing anyone could do for the project, and it would give him a chance to read and to understand a lot of diverse code, in the process, to get up to speed on writing his own fixes for PR's without fixes attached. Just my $0.02... -- Terry