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Date:      Mon, 30 Jun 2003 15:26:00 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Christopher Arnold <chris@terrabee.net>
To:        =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Joachim_Str=F6mbergson?= <watchman@ludd.luth.se>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TODO list?
Message-ID:  <20030630145824.Y9694@home.terrabee.net>
In-Reply-To: <3EFE12F8.7080908@ludd.luth.se>
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On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Joachim Str=F6mbergson wrote:

> >>On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, 14:10-0400, Joseph Holland King wrote:
> >>>
> >>>this had a fix to begin with, and has a new fix now:
> >>>Re: kern/23173: read hangs in linux emulation
> >>>http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dkern/23173
> >>
> >>Assigned to maintainer.
> >
> > I'm not the maintainer, but I'll commit the patch in a couple of longis=
h
> > minutes. An MFC will happen sometime next week. Feel free to ping me
> > at the end of next week if it hasn't been MFC'd by then.
>
> Pretty impressive, just by asking about how to contribute, Joshua Oreman
> have caused one commit of a fix from a PR and the closing of two other
> PRs. ;-)
Isn't it!


> Would it be productive/meaningful if one were to browse through the PR
> db, check/verify open PRs with fixes and report back to this list with
> "looks good" fixes so that they then could be commited in the same way
> as the three PRs reported by Joseph Holland King?
I have put some time into looking thru the PR db and there is a LOT of
stuff that either could be closed or could be fixed right away.

But i guess whats holding me back is the same thing that is holding others
back. Whats the correct way to get my hands dirty?

Is Joachim's idea of reporting back to -hackers correct? (I guess that
would be -ports for ports related issues?)

Some of the issues are quite fun. I mean how important is it that a
BusLogic unit dosn't work under FreeBSD 2.2.6? This is a five year old PR,
half the lifespan of the FreeBSD project... Couldn=B4t we close kern/7264?

If someone offers to be my mentor i would gladly walk thru the db and stir
up some dust. Any volonteer? I can even formulate my questions so you only
have to answer YES/NO...

If there isn't any volonteer i guess i just have to start pestering
everyone on -hackers...

=09/Chris



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