Hi Radoslav, Radoslav Mirza wrote on Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 01:21:44PM +0930:
> Are there any resources that point to where I can begin to help > with the project? We don't maintain any global TODO lists, it's too little benefit for too much work. > Such as junior jobs, documentation etc. The quality of OpenBSD documentation implies that finding bugs in documentation is not much easier than finding bugs in code. We do not consider documentation a junior job, but something to be done together with the code, by the developers who write the code. I am aware of a number of documentation tasks, but all of them are seriously difficult: For example, improving event(3), improving sysctl(3), documenting undocumented functions in LibreSSL, cleaning up LibreSSL manual pages in general, and figuring out how to fix OpenGL documentation. That said, there happens to be a TODO list for documentation tools, as opposed to documentation tasks: http://mandoc.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/TODO?rev=HEAD Most entries on that list are of high difficulty, but a few are easy. The most important qualification round here is the ability to find out what you are interested in, what you are capable of, to identify tasks *yourself* that you want to spend time on and are capable of making progress with. Nobody can tell you what that is. Very many different areas could benefit from work. And after that, the next most important qualification is being able to learn from doing, from reading code, from listening to advice, and from following ongoing discussions (in about that order). > plan to head down the networking path Fine, so watch your own networking needs (or the networking needs that come up in the context of your research & studies), use OpenBSD for them, identify bug or feature gaps, try to fix them, send patches if you succeed, or ask *specific* questions for advice if you get stuck on a problem and can't make progress. In particular at first, avoid spending long times (more than a few days) on a problem before talking to somebody about the (even preliminary) results, because spending weeks, then finding out that the basic approach was misguided, is frustrating. Yours, Ingo
