Re: Seeking guidance on starting FreeBSD contribution

Hi.

Have you read this?

  https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/


On Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:21:47 +0200
obiwac <obiwac@freebsd.org> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> > However, I don’t use FreeBSD regularly and I’m not sure where to start or how its components work in practice. I would greatly appreciate any advice on how to begin learning about FreeBSD development or how to get involved with small contributions.
> 
> I think definitely the #1 thing you should do is actually use FreeBSD
> regularly. Once you do you'll quickly figure out how things work
> especially if you try to drill down and try to understand things that
> you don't understand or seem weird to you.
> 
> In terms of contributions, you might come up with some small stuff you
> wanna do while doing #1, but otherwise if you hang around FreeBSD
> spaces long enough I'm sure you'll stumble across something you wanna
> work on.
> 
> There's also the ideas list although these count as a bit more than
> "small" contributions:
> 
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/IdeasPage
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCodeIdeas
> 
> But yeah overall my only advice is to actually use (as your daily
> driver if you can) and spend time with FreeBSD.
> 
> On Mon, 15 Sept 2025 at 01:11, Ananay Sharma <ananaysharma299@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I’m Ananay Sharma, a 2nd-year undergraduate student in Computer Science. For the past few months, I have been learning how computer systems work and studying Operating Systems through the UCB OS lectures. I found FreeBSD fascinating and would really love to contribute to it in the future.
> >
> > However, I don’t use FreeBSD regularly and I’m not sure where to start or how its components work in practice. I would greatly appreciate any advice on how to begin learning about FreeBSD development or how to get involved with small contributions.
> >
> > Thank you very much for your time.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Ananay Sharma


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