Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2002 00:23:32 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: "Justin L. Boss" <jlboss@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making suggestions Message-ID: <20020301222332.GE360@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <05a201c1bfca$4da45980$040f12ac@jboss101440> References: <05a201c1bfca$4da45980$040f12ac@jboss101440>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2002-02-27 14:06, Justin L. Boss wrote: > Does anyone know how someone would go about making suggestions to BIN. Do > they read this list? Yes, a lot of the people who actively work on FreeBSD read this list :-) This is one of the most exciting things about FreeBSD and it's support mailing lists. You most often get an answer from the same person, or group of persons who actually wrote the code in the first place! > I have some suggestion like changing the code it ps to except the $ as a > valid character. This would make the adduser script in samba easer to > write making FreeBSD more appealing to people. If you are willing to do the necessary changes to the sources, and test them locally, then I'm sure that everyone will be happy to know about the original idea, the source changes and any results you already have. As we all know, FreeBSD is based largely on volunteer effort. This means, that it depends highly on contributions from its users, like me and you, to go on 'living' as a project. > It would be so nice not to have to do it manually every time. I have > other ideas that I think would make FreeBSD more appealing to newbies. Excellent :))) > Maybe I need to keep my opinions to myself but FreeBSD is the best OS out > their and since I'm not a greatest coder in the world I would like to > help in some small way. Definitely not. Of course, it's really up to you to decide whether you want the developers of FreeBSD to know what you think, but rest assured that contributions are always treated with the respect they deserve. Well, enough of my ranting though. There is an article on the FreeBSD.ORG web pages, that explains how FreeBSD users can contribute to the development and constant improving of the system. Find it at: http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-7/articles/contributing/ This will probably make things a lot clearer for you, than this post. Cheers, Giorgos Keramidas FreeBSD Documentation Project keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr} http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE8f/9j1g+UGjGGA7YRAl+ZAJ4tYJaHsy/zbmbRnLReVyXzicCwggCeNzBt jFyLhJtm6MQ4DP2hWeEZVZA= =Hf6S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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