Re: Seeking guidance on starting FreeBSD contribution

from what i have seen, although i am not much experienced so do take my words with a grain of salt, most of the time here questions like "why x isn't implemented" or "why x happens" can be answered with the reason being lack of resources, in this case the resources are volunteers, sometimes the resources are infra related, somtimes testing related and sometimes due to real technical issues although that isn't the case much often

-------- Original Message --------
On 17/09/25 7:59 pm, Ananay Sharma  wrote:

>>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