From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Apr 11 1:22: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp04.wxs.nl (smtp04.wxs.nl [195.121.6.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B773F15426 for ; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 01:21:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.56.109]) by smtp04.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAA3D9A; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 10:19:41 +0200 Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org (abaddon@daemon [192.168.0.1]) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA54182; Sun, 11 Apr 1999 10:19:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19990411005541.00977950@mailgate.ftech.net> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 10:19:30 +0200 (CEST) Organization: Ninth Circle Enterprises From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: David Goddard Subject: RE: A wee bit of advice Cc: chat@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 asmodai(at)wxs.nl The idea does not replace the work... Network/Security Specialist *BSD: Powered by Knowledge & Know-how To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message