Need help documenting development processes in FreeBSD

Joel Dahl joel at vnode.se
Thu Apr 4 18:25:55 UTC 2013


On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 05:57:20PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Hi,
>     In order to bring contributors up to speed on how to interact with
> FreeBSD, I want to document some of the items that aren't really noted in
> the FreeBSD developers or committers handbook. Some topics that come to
> mind are "How do I do a precommit build?" (tinderbox, etc), "How do I test
> my changes?" (there's a chapter, but it's not helpful), "How do I get
> involved with the project?", "How do I build quickly?", "What are mtree
> files?", etc.
>     I was wondering if a) there are any other developers interested in this
> effort, b) where it should go (in the dev handbook?), and c) who would be
> interested in reviewing the work? I'd like to put it up on the wiki first
> (as I'm not an SGML wizard) and put it in SGML eventually, but I need
> feedback on whether or not this is doable.
> Thanks!

Cool. This is something I've wanted to do ever since I joined the project.
Just start with the wiki and don't think too much about markup - we can worry
about that and where to place it later.

-- 
Joel


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