Contributing to FreeBSD

[karan garg]

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:55 AM, Pascal Schmid <pascal at lechindianer.de>wrote:

> On 09/30/2013 04:30 PM, karan garg wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Jerry <jerry at seibercom.net> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 17:16:54 +0530
> >> karan garg articulated:
> >>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> I am an open source enthusiast and new to freeBSD community. I am an
> >>> RHCE and have a reasonable knowledge of linux administration,
> >>> database, Bash Scripting, and C/C++.
> >>>
> >>> I want to contribute to the community. I have gone through the FreeBSD
> >>> handbook, and list of various projects under the community. However,
> >>> I was unable to determine a suitable project for me to get started.
> >>> So, I would really appreciate if you could help me find a project
> >>> that would require my field of knowledge.
> >>>
> >>> Also, I wish to apply for GSOC-2014 and have checked the ideas page
> >>> but found the similar problems as above.
> >>>
> >>> Also, if you could give me a link of resources and handbook for me to
> >>> go through before starting to contribute.
> >>
> >> Well, if you really want a suggestion, you could try updating the
> >> "linux_base-f10-10_7" port that was released by Fedora on November 25,
> >> 2008 to something newer, say the Fedora 19, released July 2, 2013.
> >>
> >> Thanks Jerry,
> > But as this is my first experience, can you give me some links to go
> > through before I start?
> > According to what I found, portsnap is one of the tools that will help me
> > for this.
> >
> > Also, is this the correct mailing list to keep posting on for this
> purpose?
> >
> >> --
> >> Jerry ♔
> >>
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> >
> >
> Hi Karan,
>
> you should take a look at the FreeBSD porter's handbook
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/
>
Thanks a lot!
I will go through it at once.

>

and I think questions@ is the general purpose mailing list for all things :)
>
> If your uncertain about some options in your first port I'm sure the
> friendly people over at ports@
> will help you!
>
Thanks!

>
> Greetings,
> Pascal
>
>
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-- 
Regards :)
Karan