Help Wanted - Work with MSFT and help finish the port of .NET Core to FreeBSD

[Russell Haley]

+1
I threw some comments on the open issues.

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 6:36 PM, Geoffrey Huntley <ghuntley at ghuntley.com> wrote:
> Tomas and Karel from MSFT have some updates for us, in short, the full-scale
> battle can start and volunteers are needed.
>
> - FreeBSD: implement System.Diagnostic.Process:
> https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/24292
> - FreeBSD: System.Console is not working right:
> https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/24259
>
>> I was finally able to run corefx tests on FreeBSD 11.0 (without outerloop
>> tests)
>> Total passed: 144208
>> Total failed: 2622
>> Total skipped 207
>>
>> I will update dotnet/corefx/wiki/Building-.NET-Core--2.x-on-FreeBSD with
>> instructions.
>>  I will file specific issues and tag them with with os-freebsd and
>> up-for-grab.
>>
>
> From https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/issues/1626#issuecomment-332668619
>
>
>
> On 8 September 2017 at 10:51, Russell Haley <russ.haley at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi I just dropped a twitter to Karel (suddenly feel less smart) and
>> this was his response:
>>
>> "Yep, I was poking at a plan internally first. Got some hinys and will
>> reply tomorrow. Tomas even made some progress ."
>>
>> Sweet!
>>
>> Russ
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 12:24 PM, Russell Haley <russ.haley at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 11:52 AM, David Naylor <naylor.b.david at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> On Monday, 4 September 2017 10:54:21 Geoffrey Huntley wrote:
>> >>> See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHllisWOCpU and
>> >>> https://twitter.com/GeoffreyHuntley/status/904227946084294656
>> >>
>> >> Hi Geoffrey
>> >>
>> >> It is great to hear there is more interest in finishing the port of
>> >> .NET Core
>> >> to FreeBSD (and, I hope, to have ports living in the Port's
>> >> Collection).
>> >>
>> >> Would it be possible for you to put me (and the mono@ mailing list) in
>> >> touch
>> >> with Karel and Tomas - I'm not on Twitter.
>> >>
>> >> I'll reply to this email (dropping ports@ and advocacy@) with more
>> >> technical
>> >> details.
>> >>
>> >> Regards
>> >>
>> >> David
>> >
>> > Just an FYI: I found Karel's email address and dropped him a private
>> > message for more information (I also don't use twitter). I wanted to
>> > wait for permission before publishing any information on the mono
>> > mailing list (including his email address etc).
>> >
>> > I had the DotNet CORE and CLR running on FreeBSD using the
>> > instructions posted way back when. I also asked about more information
>> > a few months back on the DotNet forums but I can't find the message.
>> > The response was that "nothing was happening at the time".
>> > http://forums.dotnetfoundation.org/
>> >
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Russ
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