From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 13 09:47:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DE7716A41C; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:47:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirg.bris.ac.uk (dirg.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF3CA43D1F; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:47:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.16.62]) by dirg.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1DhlXr-0002oj-I5; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:47:56 +0100 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1DhlXp-0007WC-Ro; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:47:50 +0100 Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 10:47:49 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: cmjg@mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk To: Giorgos Keramidas In-Reply-To: <20050613094415.GA79267@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> Message-ID: References: <20050612154403.2b49d0d8@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050612194227.GA11407@soaustin.net> <20050613004704.3c0d8fe2@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050613094415.GA79267@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: Jan Grant X-Spam-Score: -2.8 X-Spam-Level: -- Cc: Alexander Leidinger , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, Mark Linimon Subject: Re: TODO list for volunteers (similar to the list of things for Google's summer of code) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 09:47:57 -0000 On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2005-06-13 10:02, Jan Grant wrote: > > Is there a reason why feature-requests can't be integrated into the > > bug tracking system? > > Aren't they already? > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?class=wish Yup. The question was semi-rhetorical: since the tracking system already does this, why not stick the various "junior hacker challenges" and so on into the bug tracking system? Since one of the pieces of advice offered to newcomers who want to get into kernel hacking is, "pick a bug report and fix it", it seems that that's a reasonable place to house this. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44 (0)117 9287088 or 3317661 http://ioctl.org/jan/ Work #90: As many pseudo-intellectual sycophants as necessary to make one inarticulate scotsman think he's a genius in command of The Profound.