FOR GOD'S SAKE STOP TALKING. Submit your code to tech@ and it will be considered on its merits. The OpenBSD team is very open to good code. If it's shite you will get no response. If it has potential you will get comments. But NOTHING will happen until they see CODE.
On Tue, Jan 19, 2016, at 02:26 AM, Luke Small wrote: > I made a small 500 line program I call pkg_ping that calls uname -rm, > ftp, > sed, on openbsd.org/ftp.html. then it changes all the parsed http and ftp > mirrors into http and ftp downloads and changes them to non redundant > http > mirrors (it has to to easily call ftp on it). It takes them and downloads > SHA256 from the mirrors and the parent times how long it takes. If it > takes > too long it kills the ftp call and goes on to the next one. Then it sorts > the results and puts the winner in /etc/pkg.conf replacing all > installpath > instances, while leaving everything else. It doesn't do any network stuff > directly so it probably wouldn't be much of a security problem, but > because > it needs to alter a root owned file, it should need root privileges. I > don't only run the release, so I don't even really know how to pledge it. > Is this something somebody would be willing to submit to the project and > maybe alter it slightly.
