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On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 06:52:36PM -0500 or thereabouts, wgrim@siue.edu wrote:
> Quoting Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I have taken a look at the PR list before, but I get depressed when I look at
> some of the requests.  Some requests don't look very hard, but they require
> hardware that I don't have.  How do you guys go about handling bug fixes if you
> don't happen to have certain hardware that someone else may have?
> 
> Also, when you're working on a PR, do you roll your OS version back to whatever
> the PR requires?  If so, do you just cvsup downgrade your source and "make
> buildworld... etc"?

My guess is, they'll see if it's fixed on -CURRENT.

> 
> I have lots of interest in beginning some simple tasks with the kernel, but
> it's quite difficult to know where to start.  I'm good at C/C++ and have taken
> an OS course; I just don't know how this particular kernel works on most levels.

Ditto here!

-- Josh

> 
> Many thanks,
> Mike Grim
> 
> PS - Terry, I'm sorry for sending this to you directly.  It was my fault for 
> not realizing it didn't go to -hackers.
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