Re: Newcomers page
Hello guys; On 03/15/16 11:23, hiren panchasara wrote: + pfg to see if he has any inputs as he works actively with newcomers. On 03/14/16 at 11:31P, hiren panchasara wrote: I see many kids (specially during GSoC time) come to hackers and ask: "I am very enthusiastic and know C/C++, xyz and completely new to FreeBSD but want to contribute. Where do I start? What should I do?" Is there a page which can provide answer to this question so we can point them to the page? I found https://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html It'd be nice if we could add: 0) -questions and -hackers maling-lists as starting point for help. 1) list of ircs that we hangout in on EFNet: bsddev, bsdmips, freebsd-gsoc, freebsd-git 2) bugzilla and how to search for interested keywords or bugs with patches 3) Ideas wiki page Just my 2c. I think the webpages are pretty good. The issue, as for the GSoC, is that we are not being very effective about taking students by the hand and guiding them into considering a FreeBSD project. One issue is the visibility of the pages: we guide people into the Projects ideas Wiki, but we have no idea if these people know what FreeBSD is or how to make their background match what they should be looking at doing. The second issue is that most projects are too difficult for people that have no experience with a a unix-like OS or even just linux. It's probably too late to fix this for this GSoC but we need to sort this out. Pedro. ___ freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Where did we lurn to spel?
Hello; I just updated locally the textproc/codespell to the latest version (bugzilla 209128 for the curious), and it finds a *crazy* amount of issues in code comments. I can't handle it on my own, indeed I got tired just be checking sys/arm ! Anyways, here is what I went "thru": https://people.freebsd.org/~pfg/patches/codespell/ Enjoy, Pedro. ___ freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Where did we lurn to spel?
On 04/28/16 16:36, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 28 Apr 2016, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Hello; I just updated locally the textproc/codespell to the latest version (bugzilla 209128 for the curious), and it finds a *crazy* amount of issues in code comments. I can't handle it on my own, indeed I got tired just be checking sys/arm ! Anyways, here is what I went "thru": https://people.freebsd.org/~pfg/patches/codespell/ textproc/igor finds many mistakes, and works on text files, man pages, DocBook, and HTML. Use of either of these tools is optional, though. Note: in sys/arm/at91/if_atereg.h, it missed "deines"->"defines". Yes, I haven't really reviewed them beyond the initial replacement. The changes kept growing and growing and I had to stop. Oh, and many of these are contractions, which should be avoided anyway. Well the main questions are ... 1) Should someone brave just go ahead and commit massively such cleanups? 2) Is there a clever review process to go through these? Phabricator with documentation team, or assume common sense? 3) There are many common issues: is "thru" something we should accept in comments. How about dont vs don't ? Pedro. ___ freebsd-doc@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-doc-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
