Everyone started somewhere and this page shows where current committers started. This is a listing of the earliest PRs or mailing lists people sent and a few people that helped them early on.

ID

First bug report, pull request or mail list post

Acknowledgements

acm

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87545

jylefort (1st PR), garga (mentor)

ade

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85818

asami, steve

amdmi3

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87483

pav (1st PR), ehaupt, miwi (mentor)

andrew

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41718

arved

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30960

petef (1st PR), will (1st IRC contact), kris (mentor)

ashish

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=102446

alepulver (1st PR), miwi (1st IRC contact), pgj (mentor), tabthorpe (mentor), keramidas (ex-emacs port maintainer)

bapt

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86401

jadawin, tabthorpe, cognet, des

brnrd

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=104703

xmj, koobs

bdrewery

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=136082

bapt (mentor), eadler (mentor), tabthorpe, crees, swills

cperciva

45817 – [PATCH] Fortune files are needlessly randomized (2015-12-13)

rwatson, nectar

crees

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=112277

rene, tabthorpe, miwi, linimon, wxs

cs

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=137377

glarkin (mentor), wen (mentor)

cy

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3985

nectar (mentor)

dbn

FreeBSD Port: libpreludedb-0.9.10 (2006-10-24), 116672 – New Port: x11-theme/cursor-crystal-theme KDE crystal style cursor theme (2007-09-26)

avilla (KDE), bdrewery (mentor), eadler (mentor), gerald (wine)

dhw

scanners and printers (1998-03-20)

julian, archie, terry

dinoex

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3306

will (mentor), asami, fenner

eadler

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127027

sahil, bapt, linimon, tabthorpe, spawk, kurt

farrokhi

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=83013

miwi (mentor), mat (mentor), bapt (mentor), philip

ganbold

http://lists.FreeBSD.org/pipermail/freebsd-ipfw/2003-December/000700.html

gavin

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27471

rwatson, linimon, remko, ed (mentor)

gjb

129699 – [patch] Typo in /etc/exports.disabled (2008-12-17)

jkois (mentor), keramida (mentor), bcr, linimon, tabthorpe, miwi, blackend, manolis, many many others

gonzo

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58389

imp, cognet, jmallet

grahamperrin

203271 – Wi-Fi no longer driven on some hardware with 11.0-CURRENT (2015-09-22), Intel GM45 GPU hangs, PC-BSD 11.0-CURRENT, sysctl hw.dri.0.info.i915_error_state (2015-12-13)

carlavilla, gjb

issyl0

GoogleCodeIn/2011Tasks

gavin, theraven, bcr, des, gabor (mentor)

jch

https://bugs.FreeBSD.org/172963

jhb, gnn, rw

jhb

Good job guys... (1998-01-29)

msmith, peter, billf, jkh, ps, dfr, dwhite, grog

jilles

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=40486

ed

jkim

Add support for the BCM5703x chips (2002-09-08)

jlh

SSH timeout settings (2002-06-21)

jmmv

See the Joining the FreeBSD committer ranks story in my blog

jpaetzel

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28970

jsa

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=126086

beech, wxs, kwm, linimon, tabthorpe, miwi

koobs

Bison 1.75 Port Broken (2003-01-09)

eadler (Mentor), lwhsu, miwi, sbz, rm (Mentor), crees

kwm

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47896

marcus, pav (mentor), adamw

lx

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46982

edwin - mentor and 1st PR

mandree

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8890

brian - first PR; ijliao - first ports PR; garga, miwi - ports mentors

martymac

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59252

mat

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31989

tobez

mmokhi

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=204607

brnrd, koobs, feld (mentor), mat (mentor), theraven

neel

http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=99742+0+archive/2002/freebsd-hackers/20020224.freebsd-hackers

grehan, imp (mentor)

ngie

http://lists.FreeBSD.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-January/109507.html

nemysis

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166854

miwi, wxs, wg, pawel (mentors), beech, ak (1st PR), madpilot (viewnior), tabthorpe, decke, swills, eadler, grog, nox, matt, jgh, danfe, rm, gahr, and many others

obrien

http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=869546+0+archive/1995/freebsd-hackers/19950618.freebsd-hackers

jkh, asami

pauamma

See my user page

debdrup most of all, then jrm, then a bunch of others

pav

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41446

marcus, adamw (mentor)

peter

http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=148207+0+archive/1995/freebsd-hackers/19950514.freebsd-hackers

julian, wollman, davidg, dyson, rgrimes, jkh, bde

pfg

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2130

asami, msmith, maho, thierry, jhb (mentor)

pgj

http://lists.FreeBSD.org/pipermail/cvs-doc/2007-September/016618.html

gabor (doc and ports mentor), tabthorpe (ports mentor)

rene

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57241

remko/gjb (doc mentors), tabthorpe (ports mentor), edwin (1st PR)

rm

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107407

miwi, glarkin, novel (mentors), wen, itetcu (1st PR), too many others to mention

scf

FreeBSD kernel panic: rtfree (1999-12-02)

darrenr, wes (mentor)

skozlov

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=180446

amdmi3, junovitch, wg, sbruno (mentor), and many others

shurd

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18088

db, skreuzer (ports mentors), sbruno (src mentor), mmacy, scottl, phk, and many others

swills

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33521

pgollucci

tabthorpe

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=97925

clsung, miwi, rafan

thierry

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25534

dinoex

tj

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110705

db, eadler (mentors), too many others to mention

vg

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=125251

abbe, amdmi3, danfe, eadler (mentor), makc, miwi, osa (mentor), rm (mentor), wen and others too

wblock

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36263

gjb (mentor), bcr (mentor), too many others to mention

woodsb02

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=191413

adamw (first port commit / mentor), koobs (mentor), mat (mentor)

ygy

Building a Physical FreeBSD Build Status Dashboard – FreeBSD Foundation (2017)

emaste (supervisor / mentor at the foundation), delphij (mentor), loader (mentor)


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