On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 04:15:02PM +0000, Thordur Bjornsson wrote: > > And if you value your sanity, stay out of anything resembling filesystems. > This is a lie. > > Hacking on filesystems, and the VFS layer in general is a very rewarding > experince, just ask Bob. > > NFS for example, has been a source of joy for OpenBSD developers for > years!
Yes, if by "joy" you mean "anal hemmoraging." > > >> 2) ?Is there something like an "openbsd janitors" project where newbies can > >> start contributing small patches? similar to the Linux janitors project? > > > > Not at all. The philosophy behind not having one is that it's considered > > dangerous > > to farm out work to the inexperienced (and this exact topic has been > > brought up > > before, usually by people whining that we didn't make them feel special > > enough > > by not having one). > Also it leads to people doing "KNF" style diffs, just to do KNF style > diffs. Noone > learns anything. Most "KNF" style diffs you see coming from developers is due > to > them having to read some code, and they cleaned up a little while doing so. > > While KNF is great, doing KNF just for the sake of doing KNF is hardly > ever worth it > IMHO.
