From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 11 17:33:03 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E94D16A4CE for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:33:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp4.server.rpi.edu (smtp4.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EC6F43D5C for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:33:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp4.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i9BHX0lP006816; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:33:01 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <4999f5990410111004522789be@mail.gmail.com> References: <4999f5990410111004522789be@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 13:32:59 -0400 To: unixshell@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) Subject: Re: FreeBSD Developer X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 17:33:03 -0000 At 7:04 PM +0200 10/11/04, unixshell@gmail.com wrote: >Hi there, > >I'm going to develop software for the FreeBSD project. > >How do I get listed on the official FreeBSD page as developer >and is it possible to get a mail alias like me@freebsd.org? I am not sure what kind of development you are expecting to do. Are you developing some separate product of your own which will run on FreeBSD? Or do you hope to make changes to the project itself? In the first case, you might be able to be listed under the web pages for "Vendors" (software) on www.FreeBSD.org. I suspect it will depend on what kind of software you develop. Generally you do not get an email account for that. In the second case, you write up changes, and send them in as PR's. Once you start doing enough of these, some FreeBSD committer will notice and will see about "mentoring" you as a new committer to the project. It can sometimes be tricky to get the attention of some developer, depending on what parts of the system you want ot work on. If you get to be a committer, then you would get an account on FreeBSD.org. In both cases, we'd want to see some *working* product or some written-and-working patches. So, you have to write the code first, and then worry about getting listed as a developer (or as a committer) after we see the result. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu