Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2017 11:33:41 +0530 From: rahul gupta <rkg10100@gmail.com> To: Rick Macklem <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> Cc: Shivansh Rai <shivansh@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need Help regarding contribution to Free BSD Projects Message-ID: <CANvmR=bfg9p61GpjsHcRiQ8X-iaNK_bo6zsVKyRjN_ubSKqzQQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <YTXPR01MB01890A209FDE5CF5AC2CA358DD880@YTXPR01MB0189.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> References: <CANvmR=bqjOh2xcLR%2B%2Bz_pGpueuswOscKLAeLHYwUU_9q1G6buQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAF%2Bp1Hv3-CPi48EubzO%2B4=3NbJ4cQELwRtAwDT5S1MmX1oRKpQ@mail.gmail.com> <CANvmR=Yw3kfKt-q2Na%2BE1Knspq3s1jK5oURGwy0A89Xjxhce_A@mail.gmail.com> <CANvmR=ZprNBq%2B%2BKwb7%2BfY1s9QV=Y6%2BUXRpO8gyJH3ZqN2vPXiQ@mail.gmail.com> <CANvmR=anYJ=YrEaqJ6GfL9E1Ex3JZZpntZLrkSMwLNNr%2BJTJKw@mail.gmail.com> <CAF%2Bp1Hu79JfS-WS=HfQM9WU=YjO0koJvdY%2BE4NqpOrTz1r6=%2Bg@mail.gmail.com> <CANvmR=Zb2xCNjDkfeqVkC7ioa2SV-mm1iK6gr2Gy3injf2QVLA@mail.gmail.com> <YTXPR01MB01890A209FDE5CF5AC2CA358DD880@YTXPR01MB0189.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM>
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This is great, thank you so much! On 11-Aug-2017 1:24 AM, "Rick Macklem" <rmacklem@uoguelph.ca> wrote: > rahul gupta wrote: > [good stuff snipped] > >>> Hi Team, > >>> Actually I am looking for Some Dev and i keen to work on File system so > >>> please any body assigned me some work related to file system and guide > me > >>> the way that how can start contributing because i am quite beginner to > this > >>> so please help me . > >>> > Well, first off I'll make a few "big picture" comments... > - If you were expecting to hear from someone with a "go work on this", it > won't > happen. > Why? > Well, there isn't anyone. The FreeBSD project doesn't have a CTO or a > committee > of wizards that make technical decisions. It is much more an "anonymous > collective". > - Basically, you find something that interests you. At some point, when > you have a > patch that you think the project will find useful, you propose it > (either on one > of the email lists or reviews.freebsd.org). If others think it is > useful, hopefully > some committer will pick it up and do the commit. > - After a while, the committers get tired of doing this and suggest you > become a > committer and do the commits yourself, etc... > There is a group called "core" which are elected by the committers, but > they mostly > deal with logistics and not technical issues. They are the ones that > decide if an > individual is to become a committer. > > Now, since you mentioned "file systems", I will note that Fuse is in need > of some TLC. > (There is a kernel component, which a few of us know a little about and a > library > that at least I, know nothing about. It also could use a bunch of testing > with different > file systems.) > Here's a recent email thread related to Fuse: > http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?87y3r0ankb.fsf > > In general, you'll want to join several email lists and what gets > discussed on them > will give you an idea of what people are working on. (If you become a > committer, > you pretty well have to watch these lists, so you might as well start > now;-) > A few I'm on are: freebsd-fs@, freebsd-current@, freebsd-stable@, > freebsd-arch@ > > You will need a system that you can test source changes against head on, > so you should > set up a head/current system. (head/current refers to the src tree found at > repo.freebsd.org/base/head and is where the stable and release branches > are > created from, so that's where source patches go first). I think you can get > read-only anonymous access to the subversion repo, but I haven't done so. > > Good luck and have fun with it, rick
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