interested in contributing to FreeBSD projects

[Warner Losh]

On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 3:56 AM Mihir Luthra <luthramihir708 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Alan,
>
> As told, I sent a mail on freebsd-net at FreeBSD.org. I haven’t received any
> responses yet.
> Can I still start to work on project? Or should I wait?
> Also could you possibly suggest me some links which I should read being a
> newcomer?
>

Sometimes people are busy. It's always a balancing act. Sometimes you get
good feedback, sometimes not. It's best to ask like you did, but then if
you get nothing to plow ahead. People are usually pretty good about
highlighting areas of improvement for patches should your patches need
them. Often times it's easier to talk from a specific patch than more
generally about something as vague as general cleanup. The project should
be better about talking about things on the front end rather than the back
end.

My recommendation to you would be to start small. Pick some small area of
cleanup. Do it and post a phabricator review. I'll try to catch that you've
done this and look at it (though you are welcome to email the review and/or
add me to the list of reviewers). You should also tell net at freebsd.org as
well about the review. hackers@ too might be good. Both groups have
traditionally been dominated by kernel people, so casting a wider net is
good.

Warner