Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 17:21:51 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net> To: Tom Brown <tomb_lists@heliox.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ease of use... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.990505171409.7628J-100000@cygnus.rush.net> In-Reply-To: <3730B5C0.84946ADC@heliox.com>
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On Wed, 5 May 1999, Tom Brown wrote: > Yet again i here the rumblings of potential contribution's to the kernel > and the serious technical side of the OS. > This mornings comments about contributions are not unusual in my > experience. I would say two things on the subject. > > You can contribute very effectively without being that technical, the > 'ease of use' problems for example are a lot more evident to new users > than to the hard-core users. Despite what some may say I think this is a > very important area of development, just look at Yahoo's comments if you > want an example. > > But it's not that easy to get anyone to listen. > > I for example, have got a GENERIC kernel config file to contribute to > the project. It's only attribute is that each of the drivers has a > comment next to it stating what it is and comments like !!DO NOT REMOVE > for those options that can land you in trouble. Having built a fair > number of FreeBSD boxes I know that these comments have saved me a huge > amount of time and I like to share that. > > So if anyone can point me in the right direction I will post them the > file. you should supply diffs relative to -current, the "easiest" way to do this is to download your own copy of the repository and use "cvs" http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/synching.html#CVSUP you can then submit PRs (man send-pr) and attach these"diffs" most PRs (problem reports) in the database with *PATCH* or something next to them will get looked at with feedback given to you. i'm not a commiter, but i have had 2 or 3 minor things commited for me by following the protocol. I'm even willing to do a small tutorial over IRC, just get on efnet, join #freebsd and look for "zb^3". for cvsup, use this file: *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/home/ncvs *default release=cvs *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all make sure you have a directory /home/ncvs to store the code in, it's about 500megs but the transfer will be compressed. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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