On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 11:28:07AM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 12:52:44PM +0300, Consus wrote: > > On 20:06 Thu 09 Jan, Marc Espie wrote: > > > It's been that way for ages. But no-one volunteered > > > to work on this. > > > > Anyone even knows about this? Aside from OpenBSD developers (who have > > their plates full already) how an average person can find out that there > > is rusty piece of code that should be taken care of? > > Don't start looking at other people's problems before you can help yourself. > Rewriting automounter for Theo as a first contribution is not likely to work. > Find something small that annoys *you* and get involved by fixing that first. > Learn how to approach and debug issues that affect you directly.
Ditto. There are lots and lots of pieces in OpenBSD that could use some "obvious" improvements, and not enough developers to do it all these days. Ask anyone with an OpenBSD account how he got it, you'll get the same story: use the OS, get annoyed by a small thing, start sending patches. Very soon, you get to be responsible for some stuff. No magic, just use the OS and scratch the itches.
