Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 15:36:40 +0000 From: Brandon helsley <brandon.helsley@hotmail.com> To: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Cert Message-ID: <CY4PR19MB1655429A10A7CD70E9A7BEACF9B10@CY4PR19MB1655.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaXnN5_vL%2BK4cAAwyaUVd=5-a1gqxzN-T4==Z%2BWkwkiM-RA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CY4PR19MB165585A7D4670DC49DB5523AF9B10@CY4PR19MB1655.namprd19.prod.outlook.com> <CAEJNuHxaPtoVqcn4Dc86Pi29pLbnFoicUo%2BR91E87W%2Br%2BkDbUA@mail.gmail.com> <20200527141409.5469f1a3.freebsd@edvax.de> <CY4PR19MB1655CA1BCE7309202A815605F9B10@CY4PR19MB1655.namprd19.prod.outlook.com>, <CAGBxaXnN5_vL%2BK4cAAwyaUVd=5-a1gqxzN-T4==Z%2BWkwkiM-RA@mail.gmail.com>
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How much experience is necessarry? I don't know anything about computers but got freebsd as a project to learn= as much as possible. If I were to get involved does "teaching the ropes" a= t all possibly include learning other things like networking and possibly a= nd hopefully learning how to port software? Sent from Outlook Mobile<https://aka.ms/blhgte>; ________________________________ From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 8:33:10 AM To: Brandon helsley <brandon.helsley@hotmail.com> Cc: Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com>; Polytropon <freebsd@= edvax.de>; Ottavio Caruso via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.= org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Cert On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 8:39 AM Brandon helsley <brandon.helsley@hotmail.co= m<mailto:brandon.helsley@hotmail.com>> wrote: What about port maintainership. Or port mentee? What Is it exactly. Good le= arning experience? Yes/no/maybe is it worth and is it a good learning experience. A port maintainer as Mathew said is resonible for keeping a port in good wo= rking order visa vie FreeBSD. A good example is when I took over maintaine= rship of devel/aegis it was to update to the latest released version (the o= riginal author passed away in 2014 and no one has picked up the ball to mak= e new versions since despite a small group of hardcore users [including my = self]) and all was good then when FreeBSD started to phase out the preferen= ce for GCC I had to make some patches to make it work with LLVM, etc. Taking over a dead port is likely not as good of an learning experience as = making and maintaining a new one. Contact me privately I have some ideas = for stuff that can and should be ports that I haven't had time for (mostly = side projects relating to PetiteCloud that I can maintain via aegis but not= via ports due to not making the translation scripts completely yet) -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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