Re: "Why I am retiring from contributing to FreeBSD"

On Fri, Jan 2, 2026 at 7:56 AM Johannes Totz <jo@bruelltuete.com> wrote:

> On 02/01/2026 09:08, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > Wismos@proton.me writes:
> >> and the sadder part is instead of seeing new contributors joining from
> >> time to time,
> >
> > You're not paying attention.  We get new contributors all the time.
>
> I would like to contribute more (small qol patches).
> But getting anything merged/committed is a major uphill struggle:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247749 sitting there
> for 5 years.
>

Bugzilla is a bad place to submit. It's a terrible code review tool. But
here it just got overlooked. I have it staged in my tree.

Is Johannes Totz <jo@bruelltuete.com>

Have the cross reference to the bug phab as well.

Will not wait for other cross references suggested in the phab. It's good
as is.

(at this point I don't even know which tool to use, github or
> phabricator or bugzilla?)
>

That's the problem. We're working on fixing that by getting a forgejo
instance up.

Warner