Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 10:19:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: David Goddard <goddard@acm.org> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: A wee bit of advice Message-ID: <XFMail.990411101930.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19990411005541.00977950@mailgate.ftech.net>
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On 10-Apr-99 David Goddard wrote: > Specifically, I'd like to code in an area that interests me - such as > FreeBSD (system or applications - I'm flexible), where I've been a happy > user for a number of years but not exactly contributed much. I've read > the relevant section of the handbook, with the todo lists &c., but I'm > still at a bit of a loss for where to start - having trouble seeing the > wood from the trees I think... > > Any tips (such as ideas for a project, anecdotes or pointers to some good > texts on systems programming)? Aye, in the /usr/ports directory are a lot of ports with a lot of subdirectories called patches. Those can be tried to be merged back into the projects where the source came from. Just be sure ye know what all them stuff in the Makefiles and patches try to do ;) Other thing is the Programmer's Documentation Project on which I am working together with Robert Garrett and Adrian Chadd. This Project tries to document FreeBSD's functions and a lot more. The current page is a little stale due to my moving to DocBook. Please see .sig for my homepage and PDP. --- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <http://www.freebsdzine.org>; asmodai(at)wxs.nl The idea does not replace the work... Network/Security Specialist <http://home.wxs.nl/~asmodai>; *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how <http://www.freebsd.org>; To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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