From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Dec 2 06:13:33 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 256B1C5EDAE for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2016 06:13:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms-10.1blu.de (ms-10.1blu.de [178.254.4.101]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DFCAC175A for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2016 06:13:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from [89.204.138.100] (helo=localhost.unixarea.de) by ms-10.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1cCh63-0000Ax-MM for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 02 Dec 2016 07:13:23 +0100 Received: from localhost.my.domain (c720-r292778-amd64 [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.unixarea.de (8.15.2/8.14.9) with ESMTPS id uB26DMBp002002 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Fri, 2 Dec 2016 07:13:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by localhost.my.domain (8.15.2/8.14.9/Submit) id uB26DMQ5002001 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 2 Dec 2016 07:13:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.my.domain: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 07:13:22 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to become a developer/commiter to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20161202061322.GB1894@c720-r292778-amd64> Reply-To: Matthias Apitz Mail-Followup-To: Matthias Apitz , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <86a4bb8b9cda427885036a5025745b80@gwp> <20161202024243.GA70440@becker.bs.l> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20161202024243.GA70440@becker.bs.l> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT r292778 (amd64) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Con-U: 0-guru X-Originating-IP: 89.204.138.100 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 06:13:33 -0000 El día Friday, December 02, 2016 a las 03:42:43AM +0100, Bertram Scharpf escribió: > Hi, > > On Thursday, 01. Dec 2016, 13:34:02 +0100, lukaszgryglicki wrote: > > Hi, I'm a developer, working in my own (one person) > > company. [...] I want to contribute to FreeBSD in my > > spare time, but not sure who should I contact. [...] > > Don't promise yourself too much. I have problem reports with > proposed fixes running for years. I even wrote to the list > that I will not report anything more before my running > reports will be processed, and nothing happened. > > As long as you are not part of the core mishpoke they will > treat you like a leper. The list likes to discuss about > complaints about complaints about spam while inferior > operating systems enthrall themselves about abusing > standards. I can not ACK this. I took over maintainer on some abandoned ports, for example head/print/muttprint, because I do need them, and the commiters guided me very well through the update and patch procedure, as well in other cases while hunting crash bugs, for example in editors/libreoffice. Just search in bugzilla if you need more details. matthias -- Matthias Apitz, ✉ guru@unixarea.de, ⌂ http://www.unixarea.de/ ☎ +49-176-38902045