How to contribute to the pkg_* tools project ?

[Lockless]

Alexander Leidinger a écrit :
> Quoting Lockless <lockless at wanadoo.fr> (from Tue, 20 Feb 2007 21:30:19 
> +0100):
> 
>> We (Lucas <Bobby> H. and Alexandre <Lock> C.) are two young students
>> from France. We have a quite good theoretical knowledge of C
>> programing, but we would like to improve our experience in real
>> projects. So we looked at the Projects Ideas on the FreeBSD website,
>> and finally found out that contributing to the pkg_* tools could be
>> great, but there was no e-mail to contact on the page.
>> So who could we contact to get more informations about this project ?
> 
> It is ports related, so the mailinglist dealing with ports (CCed, please 
> strip hackers@ on reply) would be the most appropriate, as there are the 
> most people which may be able to contribute with improvement ideas.
> 
> Basically the entry on the ideas list says to have a look at the code 
> and find stuff which can be improved. Be creative. Profile the tools and 
> try to make them faster. Have a look at the code and try to make it 
> better (maybe there's stuff which should be put into a library and used 
> in all pkg tools). Google around for stuff other people may have done or 
> may want to see.
> 
> Don't let people lurk you into making a replacement for portupgrade (it 
> may be a goal for the second or third project you want to tackle). For 
> what you want to do this may be a little bit too early. First get a 
> grasp at the existing features and improve them.
> 
> An upcomming entry on the ideas list talks about the use of berkeley db 
> in the pkg tools (where it makes sense). This was submitted by kris@ (a 
> member of portmgr@), so feel free to talk with him (but he reads ports@, 
> so talking about it on ports@ will not only give you input from Kris, 
> but also from other people).
> 
> Bye,
> Alexander.
> 
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Ok thank you, we're gonna ask in the right list.
Bye!