Hi Jeremy, Jeremy wrote on Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 06:33:57PM -0500:
> I very much believe the OpenBSD is important and needs support. > I am not a programmer, and I do not have money to donate. > What other ways are there to contribute? In addition to what Ted said, one other way is to help improving the documentation. Programming skills definitely help with that, in particular the ability to *read* (not necessarily write) C code, but some things can be done without or with little coding skills. This is less trivial than it seems because most aspects of the manuals already are of good quality and there is an unwritten house style to observe. But there definitely are lots of things that need doing (occasional missing or wrong information, inconsistent markup, outdated standards compliance info in sections 2 and 3, some programs lack mdoc manuals, lots of missing HISTORY and AUTHORS information, and more, some of what is not very accessible to beginners). Actually, hunting for code bugs as Ted suggested and hunting for documentation bugs can be done at the same time. Chances are reports of presumed doc bugs will actually result in code commits and vice versa. Just find something that looks broken, submit patches and learn from the feedback. At first, expect that only a minority of your patches result in direct commits - until you understand the system quite well and the quality of your patches improves accordingly. Yours, Ingo
