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Date:      Wed, 30 Aug 1995 10:29:43 -0700 (MST)
From:      Terry Lambert <terry@Artisoft.com>
To:        annex2@viking.emcmt.edu (Computer Annex)
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Developement
Message-ID:  <199508301729.KAA18678@phaeton.artisoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.ULT.3.91.950829203822.11264A-100000@viking.emcmt.edu> from "Computer Annex" at Aug 29, 95 08:41:51 pm

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> There are a group of students at Montana State University Billings that 
> are interested in joining the team for developement of the FreeBSD 
> system. Although we are not Unix gurus I feel that our group could 
> contribute to the developement of FreeBSD.  Any info and guidance would 
> be greatly appreciated.

Some people have suggested a lot of heavy reading.

Some people have suggested the projects lists in /usr/src.

Some people have suggested installing, then fixing the parts of the
install you don't like.


Personally, I'd suggest:

1)	Subscribe to questions
2)	Subscribe to hackers
3)	Install the software
4)	When you see something interesting roll by, be it a bug or
	an enhancement or whatever, just do it.

I'm personally involved in BSD developement as recreation.  It's there
for me to keep programming fun.

In the professional world, you often have to do things you find
uninteresting, unchallenging, or just plain boring.  Sometimes you are
forced into releasing suboptimal code because of scheduling.  But you
do them anyway, because you've committed to doing them.

There are several ways to deal with this: become a consultant so your
projects are always short term and you can pick the ones you want.  Or
jump from project to project (this is what a lot of USL does).  Or
have your own projects that you do because you want to, not because
you have a schedule to meet, or anyone to please but yourself.

I vote for that last option.  8-).


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.



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