PortsCamp Taipei/Taiwan

1. How to contribute to
FreeBSD project?
Marcelo Araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org>Taipei/Taiwan - 2016/01/15

2. Agenda
● The FreeBSD project’s structure.
● Main contributions areas.
● How I can become a FreeBSD committer?
● What is the benefit to be a FreeBSD committer?
● Where I can start?
● How about the PortsCamp?
Marcelo Araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org>Taipei/Taiwan - 2016/01/15

3. The FreeBSD project’s structure.
Marcelo Araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org>Taipei/Taiwan - 2016/01/15
9 core
Members
376 committers
lots of contributors

4. The FreeBSD project’s structure.
Marcelo Araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org>Taipei/Taiwan - 2016/01/15
9 core
Members
376 committers
lots of contributors
src:228
docs:55
ports:173

5. Active committers in the last year (2015).
Marcelo Araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org>Taipei/Taiwan - 2016/01/15
29
18
17
7
5
Nationalities in this room.

6. Main contributions areas.
Marcelo Araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org>Taipei/Taiwan - 2016/01/15
DOCS SRCPORTS
HandBook
Man Pages
Web Resources
FAQ 63 Categories
Framework
Kernel
Userland

7. How I can become a FreeBSD committer?
Marcelo Araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org>Taipei/Taiwan - 2016/01/15
FreeBSD Users (many)
FreeBSD Committers
Core Team
(9)
Source Trees
src/ ports/
doc/ www/
contributions

8. How I can become a FreeBSD committer?
Marcelo Araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org>Taipei/Taiwan - 2016/01/15
Submit patches

9. What is considered?
Marcelo Araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org>Taipei/Taiwan - 2016/01/15
● Get involved.
● Quality and number of patches.
● Contribution area.
● Commitment with the project.
● Work well with the community.
● Respect with all individuals within the community.

10. What is the benefit to be a FreeBSD committer?
Marcelo Araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org>Taipei/Taiwan - 2016/01/15
● Recognition as a competent software engineer.
● Get a chance to work with some of the best engineers in
the world.
● Learn new things everyday.
● Get an E-rate discount from Gandi.net.
● Work experience, your new employer wants that.
● Be part of something big that is changing the world.

11. Where I can start?
Marcelo Araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org>Taipei/Taiwan - 2016/01/15
● Subscribe to the FreeBSD mailing lists.
● Browser the Problem Report database and submit fixes to
bugs or file new entries with fixes.
● Adopt a port or create a new one for that cool software.
● Translate documentation to your language.
● Pick one of the items from the Ideas page.
● Subscribe to GSOC. (Students only)

12. PortsCamp.
Marcelo Araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org>Taipei/Taiwan - 2016/01/15
● We have 5 ports committers here that can give you some
support.
○ kevlo@, sunpoet@, vanilla@, lwhsu@ and araujo@.
● When you submit your patch remember to Cc one of
these guys above.

13. PortsCamp.
Marcelo Araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org>Taipei/Taiwan - 2016/01/15
● All patches that we submit and commit we must add in the
history log:
Sponsored by: PortsCamp Taiwan.
● All the PortsCamp is reported to FreeBSD Foundation.

14. PortsCamp.
Marcelo Araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org>Taipei/Taiwan - 2016/01/15
● Every VM has poundriere(8) and portlint(1).
● Poundriere:
○ PortsTree at: /usr/local/poudriere/ports/local/
○ Check dialog config:
poudriere options -j 11-Current -p local -z workstation -f test.pkg
○ Run the test:
poudriere bulk -j 11-Current -p local -z workstation -f test.pkg
○ Log result at: /usr/local/poudriere/data/logs/bulk/11-Current-local-workstation/<TIME>/logs/

15. PortsCamp.
Marcelo Araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org>Taipei/Taiwan - 2016/01/15
● Check additional info at: https://github.
com/FreeBSDTaiwan/portscamp/tree/master/portscamp01

16. Marcelo Araujo <araujo@FreeBSD.org>Taipei/Taiwan - 2016/01/15
Thank you!