Re: Seeking guidance on starting FreeBSD contribution

Hello,
I've organized some ideas in my private ticket system. I won’t add them
to the wiki, as they are candidates I plan to work on myself.
However, if you—or anyone else—are interested in any of them, feel free
to take them over.
Just leave a comment in the ticket system so I can avoid any
duplication.

https://ticket.aokblast.me/spaces/issues/39fefbd99c5a48dd9e9358bfebaf7d36

Wismos@proton.me writes:

> 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

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Best Regards.
ShengYi Hung.