Re: Seeking guidance on starting FreeBSD contribution

>I will have to demur with one bit of advice you got, "create a new
>port".  We have historically lagged on adding new ports.  Currently
>there are 351 pending:

I see, why does this happen though? Also, if this isn't a good way to
start. What should I do?

Thank you!

On Wed, Sep 17, 2025 at 3:02 PM Mark Linimon <linimon@portsmon.org> wrote:

> > I’ll start by going through the Porters Handbook and the Developers
> Handbook
>
> Fair warning: these two documents have far too much information for
> a first-time FreeBSD user :-)
>
> > along with the Committers Guide and Code Review documentation, to build
> a solid foundation.
>
> These are more terse.
>
> I will have to demur with one bit of advice you got, "create a new
> port".  We have historically lagged on adding new ports.  Currently
> there are 351 pending:
>
>
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?list_id=887996&order=short_desc%2Cpriority%2Cbug_severity&product=Ports%20%26%20Packages&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&short_desc=new%20port&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr
>
> Looking at one or two of those PRs might be instructive as to how we
> go about things, though.
>
> mcl
>