Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 10:11:44 +0100 (CET) From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, wes@softweyr.com, (Brett Taylor) <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Subject: Re: volunteering (was Re: Ports) Message-ID: <XFMail.990310101144.asmodai@wxs.nl> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990309200513.0411b840@localhost>
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On 10-Mar-99 Brett Glass wrote: > At 01:27 AM 3/10/99 +0000, Terry Lambert wrote: > >>One thing that someone could contribute would be to go through the >>various patches, and roll them back (if they aren't just hacks) to >>the original maintainers. If someone did this, they'd be able to >>get the gratitude of both communities, instead of the ignomany of >>one. >> >>Brett? If you are still interested in volunteering on some code >>project, this would be one for which the powers that be could >>neither hinder nor veto. An excellent opportunity for a cowboy... > > I'm not sure exactly what you have in mind, but I'd be interested > in hearing these ideas fleshed out. It's easy, pick a couple of yer favourite ports, look at the patches, see what they try to manipulate in the general application source and then try to get these changes, if ligit, merged into the main development sources. If not ligit, work things out with the writers, etc, etc. C'est ca. --- 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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