comments on code-in tasks for FreeBSD (Re: FreeBSD + Google Code-In 2014 = we need ideas.)

[Mark Saad]

> On Nov 14, 2014, at 4:27 AM, Peter Pentchev <roam at ringlet.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 07:55:16PM -0800, Rui Paulo wrote:
>>> On Nov 13, 2014, at 17:40, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo at iet.unipi.it> wrote:
>>> But please nuke the current list -- it is completely inadequate
>>> for the code-in candidates and misleading for whoever wants to
>>> suggest new tasks. Again i am not saying that the projects
>>> suggested there are not important, just belong somewhere else
>>> e.g. gsoc.
>> 

I have a few ideas for younger and or less experienced google code in people

1. Analyze the CD/USB  install process . 
Does the actual process match the guide and or general docs . 

2. Analyze / comment on the automated install process "jumpstart ". Does the guide and general docs match the actual process .

3. Test the virtual machine images as vagrant box images , and create vagrant box images from the official vm images . 

4. Create a script for the installer "bsd install" to use glabel to label gparts slices as /dev/label/$NAME 

5. Test the ami images , again can the docs be improved are they accurate .

The 

Now let me preface the docs tasks , by no means am I saying that the docs team has made lots of mistakes and their work needs to be rechecked . The tasks are small enough that most high school aged people could grasp the issue, with out any prior experience in BSD world . Rechecking the docs is always a good idea . 

They should allow the code in members to make some good contributions ; and maybe even some good improvements . 

>> I refrained from voicing my opinion while the call for help was going
>> on, but I completely agree that the target age of this Google initiative
>> is inadequate to FreeBSD.  The target population is 13 years to 17 years
>> old and I cannot even imagine a 13 year old knowing what FreeBSD is.
> 
> ...and yet there was pat@ becoming a ports committer at the age of 16
> and chris@ becoming a docs committer at the age of 14 :)  I think hmp@,
> alepulver@, issyl0@ and jmallett@ were pretty young when they joined,
> too.
> 
> Just an observation, I know that one or two isolated cases do not prove
> a point :)
> 
> G'luck,
> Peter
> 
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