comments on code-in tasks for FreeBSD

[Chris H]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 15:08:09 -0800 Dieter BSD <dieterbsd at gmail.com> wrote

> > I cannot even imagine a 13 year old knowing what FreeBSD is.
> 
> Why not?  They've probably heard of Apple and Linux.
> If we want to increase the number of people improving
> BSD we want to encourage, not discourage them.
> 
> Teens may not have decades of experience and a PhD in CS,
> but they often have energy and interest.  Let *them* decide
> what they want to tackle and what they don't.  Remember the
> stories of some teacher putting an "impossible" problem on the
> board, and the next day some kid has solved it.
> 
> There used to be a PR database with things that needed improving.
> But these problems were just minor little things like kernel
> panics, lost data, and other unimportant stuff that no one ever
> works on fixing.  Certainly wouldn't want some kid finding a fix
> for a problem that wasn't shiny enough for the old folks to tackle.

+1

--Chris
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