On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:48:02AM -0400, Adam M. Dutko wrote: > On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Bret S. Lambert <blamb...@openbsd.org>wrote: > > > > > ... <snip> ... > > > > Hopefully this is useful for somebody. > > > > It is, thank you. > > With regard to the other questions I peppered everyone with... :-) > > 1) Are there areas that are easier for "relative newbies" to start in versus > other areas? I know this depends on a lot of things, to include experience. > Hypothetically, someone that has some C experience, but not a lot of kernel > (and subsystem) experience. Is it better to start from the bottom up like > bootstrap to init? or is it better to start with memory management? network > drivers? What is usually the best area from a learning and future utility > perspective?
Only you can determine that so pick an area you are interested in and simply start hacking on it. > > 2) Is there something like an "openbsd janitors" project where newbies can > start contributing small patches? similar to the Linux janitors project? Janitor is actually a very hard task that requires in-depth knowledge of many sub-systems and is therefore not a good n00b starting point. > > Thanks again.
