Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2020 15:43:27 +0000 (UTC) From: Viktor Madarasz <viktormadarasz@SDF.ORG> To: Evilham <contact@evilham.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question (fwd) Message-ID: <alpine.NEB.2.21.2004081537450.9589@otaku.sdf.org> In-Reply-To: <fd51e9d5-4499-41ad-8c33-a0481eb26ad1@yggdrasil.evilham.com> References: <alpine.NEB.2.21.2004070755410.29692@sdf.lonestar.org> <fd51e9d5-4499-41ad-8c33-a0481eb26ad1@yggdrasil.evilham.com>
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Hi Evilham Very nicely written article I liked it ... I also saw there is a FreeBSD Porting Manual/Handbook By the look of it with my untrained eye it looked a lot like shell scripting and following a given syntax and cheking builds and update dependencies ---> this with my eyes without having a clue so dont judge me on that :) This definetly looks like something which interests me indeed... I always thought porting would mean to bring something over which does not exist .. from zero .. like SecureCRT (has it open thats why, its a closed source SSH/Terminal emulator has windows/mac os / linux versions ) and figure out how to make it work on FreeBSD ** without it existing in any form of port or binary for FreeBSD ** Where can I go to get some more step by step and training materials on this Porting thing? IRC? other mail list? Telegram chat? Regards Viktor On Tue, 7 Apr 2020, Evilham wrote: > Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 11:40:18 +0200 > From: Evilham <contact@evilham.com> > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Question (fwd) > > Hey, > > On dt., abr. 07 2020, Viktor Madarasz wrote: > >> viktormadarasz@sdf.org >> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2020 07:52:50 +0000 (UTC) >> From: Viktor Madarasz <viktormadarasz@SDF.ORG> >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Question >> >> I would like to contribute to FreeBSD. I can NOT code ( very shallow >> C++ >> knowledge I pretty much got confused the moment the object oriented >> concepts >> being brought in and the whole mindset ( way to think as a programmer) >> always >> confuses me :) ) >> >> So what else would be there for me? Documentation? or something else? ( >> English >> and Hungarian could work for me and maybe even Spanish but My English and >> Hungarian are way better :) ) > > > Helping out with ports doesn't *usually* require programming per se. > My approach to help out with limited time has been to help fix things I see > that need fixing. > > Here is something I wrote about updating ports (with tons of links to things > I wish I had known :-)) > https://evilham.com/en/blog/2020-FreeBSD-updating-a-port-twisted-python/ > > Creating ports is similarly not much of a programming effort, so if you see > something that is missing and would be desirable, you can look into it. > If you can identify a similar piece of software (as in: same programming > language, similar architecture, ...), you might be able to extrapolate from > that other port to create your own; otherwise the porter's handbook is a good > resource and generally just asking on #freebsd-ports might point you in the > right direction. > > Documentation is indeed also a great way, just can't speak for that as much > yet. > > >> Another thing... There is No BSD User Group in the country where I >> live-reside >> (Spain) How could I create One? I guess its a good opportunity to do so as >> there is 0 here as I saw on the Website. As I speak / write English, >> Spanish , >> Hungarian I guess I could tie in to other BSD Groups with those languages >> as >> well... >> >> Anyone can point me to the good direction regarding these things? > > > Actually, I've been looking into starting something like this; though in my > case more wider-Barcelona centric, to have physical meetings be easier for > the post-COVID world. > Probably those meetings would be kind of tri-lingual (a bit like PyBCN), to > facilitate participation of local computer-people who might not be as > well-versed in English. > Depending on where you live in Spain, bilingual might suffice, just make sure > not to exclude people on a language basis. > > For that, I registered some days ago freebsd.cat, haven't managed to do > anything with it just yet. > I also noticed freebsd.es exists, but it appears to be an abandoned effort; > you might be able to get in touch with them and maybe do a friendly, mutually > agreed, domain take over and revive it :-) (that would be pretty cool). > > As for how to do these things... It's tricky because it's something social > and it's a bunch of *constant, reliable* work. > During the past, say 15-20 episodes of https://bsdnow.tv, there have been > quite a few mentions about how to start such an effort. > (You'd have to look into e.g. the RSS feed and find those, but if you haven't > yet, it's a good podcast worth listening regardless of these particular bits) > > At the very least it sounds like announcing you'll do such a thing here, > probably on Twitter *and* fediverse, and shooting an email with enough head > time to the BSD Now people is a decent way to start. > > Cheers, > -- > Evilham > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > viktormadarasz@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org
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