interested in contributing to FreeBSD projects

Mihir Luthra luthramihir708 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 30 17:28:06 UTC 2019


 Hi,

Sometimes people are busy. It's always a balancing act. Sometimes you get
> good feedback, sometimes not. It's best to ask like you did, but then if
> you get nothing to plow ahead. People are usually pretty good about
> highlighting areas of improvement for patches should your patches need
> them. Often times it's easier to talk from a specific patch than more
> generally about something as vague as general cleanup. The project should
> be better about talking about things on the front end rather than the back
> end.
>
> My recommendation to you would be to start small. Pick some small area of
> cleanup. Do it and post a phabricator review. I'll try to catch that you've
> done this and look at it (though you are welcome to email the review and/or
> add me to the list of reviewers). You should also tell net at freebsd.org as
> well about the review. hackers@ too might be good. Both groups have
> traditionally been dominated by kernel people, so casting a wider net is
> good.
>
>
I got your point. I will start with small patches first after getting a bit
comfortable with the current code.  I will drop a mail, as suggested, when
I am done.

Thanks for the advice,
Mihir


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