From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 30 10:32:15 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id KAA15388 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 10:32:15 -0700 Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA15378 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 10:32:10 -0700 Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id KAA18678; Wed, 30 Aug 1995 10:29:44 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199508301729.KAA18678@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Developement To: annex2@viking.emcmt.edu (Computer Annex) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 10:29:43 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Computer Annex" at Aug 29, 95 08:41:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1607 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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 --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.