From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 17 21:57:40 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B46E0106566C for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:57:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tyler@monkeypox.org) Received: from starfish.geekisp.com (mail.geekisp.com [216.168.135.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643028FC15 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:57:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 105 invoked by uid 1003); 17 Jan 2010 21:30:58 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO kiwi.sharlinx.com) (tyler@monkeypox.org@127.0.0.1) by mail.geekisp.com with SMTP; 17 Jan 2010 21:30:56 -0000 Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 13:30:50 -0800 From: "R. Tyler Ballance" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100117213049.GA2259@kiwi.sharlinx.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Weekend PR smashing X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:57:40 -0000 --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Howdy all, I've recently taken up perusing the PR database looking for small(ish) bugs that will help me: (1) start contributing to FreeBSD again (2) familiarize myself with -CURRENT. Last weekend I knocked off #43337 (to which my patch still remains unaddressed) and started looking for more and more bugs, particularly in the 'bin' category. I've noticed a couple things, and would love a helping hand with: * There's a lot of **old** PRs, some of the userland bugs that are over a decade old I have no idea what to do with (try to reproduce a bug filed against 2.2?) * There's a lot of PRs with patches and a discussion; I don't *think* I can do anything helpful with these Additionally, I feel somewhat overwhelmed, I'm really hunting for tasks anywhere from a few hours to an all-nighter. Some of the things the KDE team does to get people involved I find useful, such as the "bugs howto" for information on triaging and getting started with contributing: http://quality.kde.org/develop/howto/howtobugs.php As well as the "junior jobs" keyword in their bugzilla: https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=junior-jobs&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&cmdtype=doit Are there similar resources I've not stumbled across yet? I would like to help, I have but one machine running -CURRENT and sporadic free time over the weekends. Tips? :D Cheers, -R. Tyler Ballance -------------------------------------- Jabber: rtyler@jabber.org GitHub: http://github.com/rtyler Twitter: http://twitter.com/agentdero Blog: http://unethicalblogger.com --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAktTgYkACgkQFCbH3D9R4W+X4gCeI7tA5/LK+bPXaN0XO4AlbWGZ OoEAmIb3x20DTp7s4/3Q9CVTFxZzN60= =Qn52 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BXVAT5kNtrzKuDFl--