Interested in contributing towards the items in Wiki

[Balaji G]

Hi Leena

>Balaji , you can take topic of your interest & start working on it.

Thanks for your reply. Yes for sure i could do it but i need some more
information for the tasks and if i could get in touch with the maintainers
it would be nice so that i could get more information on the tasks and i
could start up with the work on what exactly needs to be done for that
activity.  I am relatively new to FreeBSD though i know some bit of L3
kernel code so could start with relatively smaller tasks and would get into
the bigger things moving forward.

> for that first you need to have a test setup for testing your code.

 I just have one system running Linux in the host and i have 2 VMs running
FreeBSD 7.2 and FreeBSD 8.0 with custom kernel compiled which i have for
testing some ECMP stuff. I am currently downloading FreeBSD 9.0 so that i
could install that in an other VM so i would have 3 VMs running FreeBSD.  I
could do the work and do some basic testing with the VM and send the patch
out and others could do some more testing and if there is something more to
be done, i could do it based on the comments i get.

Let me know your thoughts and inputs.

Thanks,
Cheers,
   - Balaji

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Leena M. <kernmonk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Balaji , you can take topic of your interest & start working on it. for
> that
> first you need to have a test setup for testing your code.
>
> Regards,
> Onkar
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Balaji G <balajig81 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everybody
>>
>> I am interested in contributing towards some of the items mentioned in the
>> wiki link. Though I am quite new to FreeBSD and have been reading the
>> kernel
>> networking part and in fact working on back porting ECMP fixes to 7.2 from
>> 8.0. I have sent a patch to the Mailing List too and also working on
>> completing it . I am interested in contributing towards the following
>> items
>>
>> 1. Low hanging Kernel fruit
>> 2. IPv6 Cleanup Tasks
>>
>> mentioned in the wiki link http://wiki.freebsd.org/Networking
>>
>> It would be really great if people could reply to this mail and let me
>> know
>> how i could start and probably mentor me to being part of the team.
>>
>> Thanks for your time.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>  - Balaji
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