• Contributing

Introduction

High-value, simple & easily accessible ways to contribute to FreeBSD

Activities

Help & support others users / Talk about FreeBSD online

Start conversations, support users and engage in FreeBSD-related discourse

• IRC, FreeBSD Forums or FreeBSD Mailing Lists

• Twitter (#freebsd), StackOverflow

• See also: Community for other channels

Increase FreeBSD awareness at your favourite upstream project(s)

• Websites, documentation, README's
• Add FreeBSD install instructions to documentation/README's
• Add FreeBSD to the list of supported operating systems

• Run software tests, test suites, report successes & failures

• Add feature requests to add or improve FreeBSD support, or FreeBSD-specific features (eg: kqueue(2))

• #UpstreamLove

Write about what you do, on, or with FreeBSD

• Write a How To article

• Write a blog post describing a new feature, port project or update
• Write about your experience on FreeBSD, including the successes, failures and what needs improving.

Adopt an unmaintained Port or Package

Maintain an un-maintained port

• FreeBSD Ports: New Contributor 101 / Cheatsheet

Add to and improve FreeBSD Wiki Content

• Report incorrect or outdated content
• Suggest additions, changes

• Create a wiki account, ask a developer to add you to the contributor group

• Join #freebsd-wiki on IRC

Manage and Triage FreeBSD Issues/Bugs

• Analyse/Triage a Bug/Issue for a port/package you use. Examples:

  • Incorrectly categorized
  • Unclear summaries
  • Incorrectly assigned
  • CC relevant/appropriate people
  • Help issues progress
  • Reproduce issues

Skills & Interest Areas

Frontend Development / HTML, CSS, JavaScript

• Many FreeBSD Services use or have HTML/CSS/JavaScript themes or templates. Help us improve the design, usability, performance and accessibility of our user-facing services.

• This Wiki, Bugzilla, the main FreeBSD website, among others

Language & Writing

• FreeBSD provides extensive documentation in many forms, including handbooks, manual pages, and this wiki.

• Help us write new content, guides, howtos or tutorials, or level up existing documentation to fill in gaps, or make them more accessible and understandable

• Wiki: Improve the accessibility, consistency and organisation (information architecture) of our Wiki.
• Know languages other than English? Help translate our documentation to those languages.

Perl

• Bugzilla is written in Perl. Help us write Bugzilla Extensions, improve automation and extend functionality

• Perl ports and packages. Create new Perl ports, and help us keep perl ports up-to-date and well-tested.

Python

• The project runs a number of services built on Python. Some examples include bsd.to (pastebin running dpaste), Limnoria (IRC Bot framework), and this Wiki (MoinMoin)

• We have a number of blue-skype projects and services we'd love to build using popular Python frameworks like Django and Flask.

• Python ports and packages. Create new Python ports, and help us keep Python ports up-to-date and well-tested.

Gaming

• Test and fix Steam games on FreeBSD. Check the Steam Games: FreeBSD Compatibility List

  • Join #freebsd-games on IRC Libera Chat or #gaming channel on Discord

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