FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!

[Lars Engels]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 03:59:07PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote:
> On 23 October 2012 12:54, David Magda <dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca> wrote:
> > On Tue, October 23, 2012 10:39, Fbsd8 wrote:
> >>
> >> The subject is Google Code-In and all the posted tasks are directed at
> >> creating documentation. Not one deals with coding any programs. If I was
> >> 15-17 years old I sure would not be interested in writing documentation.
> >> I would want to use and develop my coding skills. To that end there a
> >> lot of simple PR's waiting for attention. This is an target area that
> >> young coders would find more interesting.
> >
> > It would depend on what one's interests were.
> 
> Google code-in is aimed at *coders* and there is an expectation of
> people writing *code*.
> 
> The biggest complaint for GCI last year was "not enough coding tasks"

What about creating a new port? That is some kind of coding. If we can
find some software that isn't ported, yet and not too hard to port (e.g.
the wanted ports page in the wiki) we could make a task proposal of it.
And one generic "create a port for a piece of software that hasn't been
ported, yet".
Feel free to add me as a mentor for such a task.
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