FreeBSD in Google Code-In 2012? You can help too!

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Lars Engels <lars.engels at 0x20.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 03:59:07PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote:
>> On 23 October 2012 12:54, David Magda <dmagda at ee.ryerson.ca> wrote:
>> > On Tue, October 23, 2012 10:39, Fbsd8 wrote:
>> >>
>> >> The subject is Google Code-In and all the posted tasks are directed at
>> >> creating documentation. Not one deals with coding any programs. If I was
>> >> 15-17 years old I sure would not be interested in writing documentation.
>> >> I would want to use and develop my coding skills. To that end there a
>> >> lot of simple PR's waiting for attention. This is an target area that
>> >> young coders would find more interesting.
>> >
>> > It would depend on what one's interests were.
>>
>> Google code-in is aimed at *coders* and there is an expectation of
>> people writing *code*.
>>
>> The biggest complaint for GCI last year was "not enough coding tasks"
>
> What about creating a new port? That is some kind of coding. If we can
> find some software that isn't ported, yet and not too hard to port (e.g.
> the wanted ports page in the wiki) we could make a task proposal of it.
> And one generic "create a port for a piece of software that hasn't been
> ported, yet".
> Feel free to add me as a mentor for such a task.

Also related to that, what about writing a section about redports[1]
in the porter's handbook[2]?

And as a side question, shouldn't some (or all) of these tasks be
listed also in JuniorTasks[3]?

Just my two cents.

[1] https://redports.org/
[2] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/book.html
[3] http://wiki.freebsd.org/JuniorJobs