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.

Who ?

First PRs or ML posts

Acknowledgements

ade

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/11217

asami, steve

arved

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/30960

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

ashish

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/102446

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

bapt

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/86401

jadawin, tabthorpe, cognet, des

cperciva

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/45817

rwatson, nectar

crees

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/112277

ReneLadan, ThomasAbthorpe, MartinWilke, MarkLinimon, WesleyShields

cs

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=usb/137377

glarkin (mentor), wen (mentor)

cy

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/3985

nectar (mentor)

eadler

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=docs/127027

sahil, bapt, linimon, tabthorpe, spawk, kurt

ganbold

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

gjb

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=conf/129699

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

gonzo

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/58389

imp, cognet, jmallet

issyl0

http://wiki.freebsd.org/GoogleCodeIn/2011

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

jilles

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/40486

ed

jkim

http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200209081912.g88JC3jS094069

jlh

http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=487334+0+archive/2002/freebsd-security/20020623.freebsd-security

jpaetzel

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=docs/28970

jsa

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/126086

beech, wxs, kwm, linimon, tabthorpe, miwi

kwm

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/47896

marcus, pav (mentor), adamw

lx

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/46982

edwin - mentor and 1st PR

mandree

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/28890

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

martymac

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/59252

pav

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=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

pgj

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

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

rene

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/57241

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

rm

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/107407

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

scf

http://marc.info/?l=ipfilter&m=94411075006511

darrenr, wes (mentor)

swills

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/33521

pgollucci

tabthorpe

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/97925

clsung, miwi, rafan

wblock

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=docs/36263

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

HowWeGotHere (last edited 2012-05-21 11:25:08 by CarloStrub)