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

Pedro Giffuni pfg at freebsd.org
Wed Oct 24 22:36:51 UTC 2012


(cc'ing -ports and cutting most of the rest)

> From: Eitan Adler 
.> 
>On 24 October 2012 13:24, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
>> Also related to that, what about writing a section about redports[1]
>> in the porter's handbook[2]?
>
>This is a good documentation task... but we need more *coding* tasks as well.
>

We do need to port and test patch (1) from NetBSD or DragonFly to replace
GNU patch, and this shouldn't be difficult.

I would guess there are other interesting possibilities in the ports tree and
new ports count as coding:

http://wiki.freebsd.org/WantedPorts


So i guess we need porting mentors.

Pedro.


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