Re: Seeking guidance on starting FreeBSD contribution

obiwac 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.
> 
This right here. Forget anything else, use FreeBSD as a daily driver 
before even thinking about contributing anything. Start by migrating one 
or a few of your existing workloads to a FreeBSD instance and take note 
of how they work or not. While doing so you may notice some other things 
that are not quite up to snuff that may or may not have been reported or 
worked-in-progress.

This applies no matter if base system, ports or documentation.

> 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.
> 
Exactly.

This advice is not really limited to even FreeBSD; it applies to pretty 
much any community-driven open source project.

-- 
Charlie Li
...nope, still don't have an exit line.