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Contributed by &a.jkh;.

So you want to contribute something to FreeBSD? That is great! We can always use the help, and FreeBSD is one of those systems that relies on the contributions of its user base in order to survive. Your contributions are not only appreciated, they are vital to FreeBSD's continued growth!

Contrary to what some people might also have you believe, you do not need to be a hot-shot programmer or a close personal friend of the FreeBSD core team in order to have your contributions accepted. The FreeBSD Project's development is done by a large and growing number of international contributors whose ages and areas of technical expertise vary greatly, and there is always more work to be done than there are people available to do it.

Since the FreeBSD project is responsible for an entire operating system environment (and its installation) rather than just a kernel or a few scattered utilities, our "TODO" list also spans a very wide range of tasks, from documentation, beta testing and presentation to highly specialized types of kernel development. No matter what your skill level, there is almost certainly something you can do to help the project!

Commercial entities engaged in FreeBSD-related enterprises are also encouraged to contact us. Need a special extension to make your product work? You will find us receptive to your requests, given that they are not too outlandish. Working on a value-added product? Please let us know! We may be able to work cooperatively on some aspect of it. The free software world is challenging a lot of existing assumptions about how software is developed, sold, and maintained throughout its life cycle, and we urge you to at least give it a second look. What Is Needed

The following list of tasks and sub-projects represents something of an amalgam of the various core team TODO lists and user requests we have collected over the last couple of months. Where possible, tasks have been ranked by degree of urgency. If you are interested in working on one of the tasks you see here, send mail to the coordinator listed by clicking on their names. If no coordinator has been appointed, maybe you would like to volunteer? High priority tasks

The following tasks are considered to be urgent, usually because they represent something that is badly broken or sorely needed: 3-stage boot issues. Overall coordination: &a.hackers

Do WinNT compatible drive tagging so that the 3rd stage can provide an accurate mapping of BIOS geometries for disks. Filesystem problems. Overall coordination: &a.fs Clean up and document the nullfs filesystem code. Coordinator: &a.eivind Fix the union file system. Coordinator: &a.dg Implement Int13 vm86 disk driver. Coordinator: &a.hackers New bus architecture. Overall coordination: &a.newbus

Port existing ISA drivers to new architecture. Move all interrupt-management code to appropriate parts of the bus drivers. Port PCI subsystem to new architecture. Coordinator: &a.dfr Figure out the right way to handle removable devices and then use that as a substrate on which PC-Card and CardBus support can be implemented. Resolve the probe/attach priority issue once and for all. Move any remaining buses over to the new architecture. Kernel issues. Overall coordination: &a.hackers

Fix the syscons ALT-Fn/vt switching hangs. Coordinator: &a.sos Add more pro-active security infrastructure. Overall coordination: &a.security Build something like Tripwire(TM) into the kernel, with a remote and local part. There are a number of cryptographic issues to getting this right; contact the coordinator for details. Coordinator: &a.eivind Make the entire kernel use suser() instead of comparing to 0. It is presently using about half of each. Coordinator: &a.eivind Split securelevels into different parts, to allow an administrator to throw away those privileges he can throw away. Setting the overall securelevel needs to have the same effect as now, obviously. Coordinator: &a.eivind Make it possible to upload a list of 'allowed programs' to BPF, and then block BPF from accepting other programs. This would allow BPF to be use e.g. for DHCP, without allowing an attacker to start snooping the local network. Update the security checker script. We should at least grab all the checks from the other BSD derivates, and add checks that a system with securelevel increased also have reasonable flags on the relevant parts. Coordinator: &a.eivind Add authorization infrastructure to the kernel, to allow different authorization policies. Part of this could be done by modifying 'suser()'. Coordinator: &a.eivind Add code to the NFS layer so you cannot chdir("..") out of a NFS partition. E.g.: /usr is a UFS partition with /usr/src NFS exported. Now it is possible to use the NFS file handle for /usr/src to get access to /usr. Medium priority tasks

The following tasks need to be done, but not with any particular urgency: Full KLD based driver support/Configuration Manager.

Write a configuration manager (in the 3rd stage boot?) that probes your hardware in a sane manner, keeps only the KLDs required for your hardware, etc. PCMCIA/PCCARD. Coordinators: &a.msmith and &a.phk Documentation! Reliable operation of the pcic driver (needs testing). Recognizer and handler for sio.c (mostly done). Recognizer and handler for ed.c (mostly done). Recognizer and handler for ep.c (mostly done). User-mode recognizer and handler (partially done). Advanced Power Management. Coordinators: &a.msmith and &a.phk APM sub-driver (mostly done). IDE/ATA disk sub-driver (partially done). syscons/pcvt sub-driver. Integration with the PCMCIA/PCCARD drivers (suspend/resume). Low priority tasks

The following tasks are purely cosmetic or represent such an investment of work that it is not likely that anyone will get them done anytime soon:

The first N items are from Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> NetWare Server (protected mode ODI driver) loader and subservices to allow the use of ODI card drivers supplied with network cards. The same thing for NDIS drivers and NetWare SCSI drivers. An "upgrade system" option that works on Linux boxes instead of just previous rev FreeBSD boxes. Symmetric Multiprocessing with kernel preemption (requires kernel preemption). A concerted effort at support for portable computers. This is somewhat handled by changing PCMCIA bridging rules and power management event handling. But there are things like detecting internal vs. external display and picking a different screen resolution based on that fact, not spinning down the disk if the machine is in dock, and allowing dock-based cards to disappear without affecting the machines ability to boot (same issue for PCMCIA). Smaller tasks

Most of the tasks listed in the previous sections require either a considerable investment of time or an in-depth knowledge of the FreeBSD kernel (or both). However, there are also many useful tasks which are suitable for "weekend hackers", or people without programming skills. If you run FreeBSD-current and have a good Internet connection, there is a machine current.freebsd.org which builds a full release once a day - every now and again, try and install the latest release from it and report any failures in the process. Read the freebsd-bugs mailing list. There might be a problem you can comment constructively on or with patches you can test. Or you could even try to fix one of the problems yourself. Read through the FAQ and Handbook periodically. If anything is badly explained, out of date or even just completely wrong, let us know. Even better, send us a fix (SGML is not difficult to learn, but there is no objection to ASCII submissions). Help translate FreeBSD documentation into your native language (if not already available) - just send an email to &a.doc asking if anyone is working on it. Note that you are not committing yourself to translating every single FreeBSD document by doing this - in fact, the documentation most in need of translation is the installation instructions. Read the freebsd-questions mailing list and &ng.misc occasionally (or even regularly). It can be very satisfying to share your expertise and help people solve their problems; sometimes you may even learn something new yourself! These forums can also be a source of ideas for things to work on. If you know of any bugfixes which have been successfully applied to -current but have not been merged into -stable after a decent interval (normally a couple of weeks), send the committer a polite reminder. Move contributed software to src/contrib in the source tree. Make sure code in src/contrib is up to date. Look for year 2000 bugs (and fix any you find!) Build the source tree (or just part of it) with extra warnings enabled and clean up the warnings. Fix warnings for ports which do deprecated things like using gets() or including malloc.h. If you have contributed any ports, send your patches back to the original author (this will make your life easier when they bring out the next version) Suggest further tasks for this list! How to Contribute

Contributions to the system generally fall into one or more of the following 6 categories: Bug reports and general commentary

An idea or suggestion of general technical interest should be mailed to the &a.hackers;. Likewise, people with an interest in such things (and a tolerance for a high volume of mail!) may subscribe to the hackers mailing list by sending mail to &a.majordomo;. See for more information about this and other mailing lists. If you find a bug or are submitting a specific change, please report it using the send-pr(1) program or its . Try to fill-in each field of the bug report. Unless they exceed 65KB, include any patches directly in the report. Consider compressing them and using uuencode(1) if they exceed 20KB. Upload very large submissions to . After filing a report, you should receive confirmation along with a tracking number. Keep this tracking number so that you can update us with details about the problem by sending mail to . Use the number as the message subject, e.g. "Re: kern/3377". Additional information for any bug report should be submitted this way. If you do not receive confirmation in a timely fashion (3 days to a week, depending on your email connection) or are, for some reason, unable to use the send-pr(1) command, then you may ask someone to file it for you by sending mail to the &a.bugs;. Changes to the documentation

Changes to the documentation are overseen by the &a.doc;. Send submissions and changes (even small ones are welcome!) using send-pr as described in . Changes to existing source code

An addition or change to the existing source code is a somewhat trickier affair and depends a lot on how far out of date you are with the current state of the core FreeBSD development. There is a special on-going release of FreeBSD known as ``FreeBSD-current'' which is made available in a variety of ways for the convenience of developers working actively on the system. See for more information about getting and using FreeBSD-current. Working from older sources unfortunately means that your changes may sometimes be too obsolete or too divergent for easy re-integration into FreeBSD. Chances of this can be minimized somewhat by subscribing to the &a.announce and the &a.current lists, where discussions on the current state of the system take place. Assuming that you can manage to secure fairly up-to-date sources to base your changes on, the next step is to produce a set of diffs to send to the FreeBSD maintainers. This is done with the diff(1) command, with the `context diff' form being preferred. For example: diff -c oldfile newfile or diff -c -r olddir newdir would generate such a set of context diffs for the given source file or directory hierarchy. See the man page for diff(1) for more details. Once you have a set of diffs (which you may test with the patch(1) command), you should submit them for inclusion with FreeBSD. Use the send-pr(1) program as described in . Do not just send the diffs to the &a.hackers; or they will get lost! We greatly appreciate your submission (this is a volunteer project!); because we are busy, we may not be able to address it immediately, but it will remain in the pr database until we do. If you feel it appropriate (e.g. you have added, deleted, or renamed files), bundle your changes into a tar file and run the uuencode(1) program on it. Shar archives are also welcome. If your change is of a potentially sensitive nature, e.g. you are unsure of copyright issues governing its further distribution or you are simply not ready to release it without a tighter review first, then you should send it to &a.core; directly rather than submitting it with send-pr(1). The core mailing list reaches a much smaller group of people who do much of the day-to-day work on FreeBSD. Note that this group is also very busy and so you should only send mail to them where it is truly necessary. Please refer to man 9 intro and man 9 style for some information on coding style. We would appreciate it if you were at least aware of this information before submitting code. New code or major value-added packages

In the rare case of a significant contribution of a large body work, or the addition of an important new feature to FreeBSD, it becomes almost always necessary to either send changes as uuencode'd tar files or upload them to our ftp site . When working with large amounts of code, the touchy subject of copyrights also invariably comes up. Acceptable copyrights for code included in FreeBSD are: The BSD copyright. This copyright is most preferred due to its ``no strings attached'' nature and general attractiveness to commercial enterprises. Far from discouraging such commercial use, the FreeBSD Project actively encourages such participation by commercial interests who might eventually be inclined to invest something of their own into FreeBSD. The GNU Public License, or ``GPL''. This license is not quite as popular with us due to the amount of extra effort demanded of anyone using the code for commercial purposes, but given the sheer quantity of GPL'd code we currently require (compiler, assembler, text formatter, etc) it would be silly to refuse additional contributions under this license. Code under the GPL also goes into a different part of the tree, that being /sys/gnu or /usr/src/gnu, and is therefore easily identifiable to anyone for whom the GPL presents a problem.

Contributions coming under any other type of copyright must be carefully reviewed before their inclusion into FreeBSD will be considered. Contributions for which particularly restrictive commercial copyrights apply are generally rejected, though the authors are always encouraged to make such changes available through their own channels. To place a ``BSD-style'' copyright on your work, include the following text at the very beginning of every source code file you wish to protect, replacing the text between the `%%' with the appropriate information. Copyright (c) %%proper_years_here%% %%your_name_here%%, %%your_state%% %%your_zip%%. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer as the first lines of this file unmodified. 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY %%your_name_here%% ``AS IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL %%your_name_here%% BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. $Id$ For your convenience, a copy of this text can be found in /usr/share/examples/etc/bsd-style-copyright. Money, Hardware or Internet access

We are always very happy to accept donations to further the cause of the FreeBSD Project and, in a volunteer effort like ours, a little can go a long way! Donations of hardware are also very important to expanding our list of supported peripherals since we generally lack the funds to buy such items ourselves. Donating funds

While the FreeBSD Project is not a 501(c)(3) (charitable) corporation and hence cannot offer special tax incentives for any donations made, any such donations will be gratefully accepted on behalf of the project by FreeBSD, Inc.

FreeBSD, Inc. was founded in early 1995 by &a.jkh and &a.dg with the goal of furthering the aims of the FreeBSD Project and giving it a minimal corporate presence. Any and all funds donated (as well as any profits that may eventually be realized by FreeBSD, Inc.) will be used exclusively to further the project's goals. Please make any checks payable to FreeBSD, Inc., sent in care of the following address: FreeBSD, Inc. c/o Jordan Hubbard 4041 Pike Lane, suite #F. Concord CA, 94520 [currently using the Walnut Creek CDROM address until a PO box can be opened] Wire transfers may also be sent directly to: Bank Of America Concord Main Office P.O. Box 37176 San Francisco CA, 94137-5176 Routing #: 121-000-358 Account #: 01411-07441 (FreeBSD, Inc.) Any correspondence related to donations should be sent to , either via email or to the FreeBSD, Inc. postal address given above. If you do not wish to be listed in our section, please specify this when making your donation. Thanks! Donating hardware

Donations of hardware in any of the 3 following categories are also gladly accepted by the FreeBSD Project: General purpose hardware such as disk drives, memory or complete systems should be sent to the FreeBSD, Inc. address listed in the donating funds section. Hardware for which ongoing compliance testing is desired. We are currently trying to put together a testing lab of all components that FreeBSD supports so that proper regression testing can be done with each new release. We are still lacking many important pieces (network cards, motherboards, etc) and if you would like to make such a donation, please contact &a.dg for information on which items are still required. Hardware currently unsupported by FreeBSD for which you would like to see such support added. Please contact the &a.core; before sending such items as we will need to find a developer willing to take on the task before we can accept delivery of new hardware. Donating Internet access

We can always use new mirror sites for FTP, WWW or cvsup. If you would like to be such a mirror, please contact for more information. Donors Gallery

The FreeBSD Project is indebted to the following donors and would like to publically thank them here! Contributors to the central server project:

The following individuals and businesses made it possible for the FreeBSD Project to build a new central server machine to eventually replace freefall.freebsd.org by donating the following items: and his employer, , donated a Pentium Pro (P6) 200Mhz CPU donated a Tyan 1662 motherboard. of donated a Kingston ethernet controller. donated an NCR 53C875 SCSI controller card. of donated 128MB of memory, a 4 Gb disk drive and the case. Direct funding:

The following individuals and businesses have generously contributed direct funding to the project: Sean Eric Fagan Don Scott Wilde Robert T. Morris of of Japan (a portion of the profits from sales of their various FreeBSD CD-ROMs. donated a portion of their profits from Hajimete no FreeBSD (FreeBSD, Getting started) to the FreeBSD and XFree86 projects. donated a portion of their profits from several FreeBSD-related books to the FreeBSD project. has generously donated significant funding to the FreeBSD project. Hardware contributors:

The following individuals and businesses have generously contributed hardware for testing and device driver development/support: Walnut Creek CDROM for providing the Pentium P5-90 and 486/DX2-66 EISA/VL systems that are being used for our development work, to say nothing of the network access and other donations of hardware resources. TRW Financial Systems, Inc. provided 130 PCs, three 68 GB fileservers, twelve Ethernets, two routers and an ATM switch for debugging the diskless code. Dermot McDonnell donated the Toshiba XM3401B CDROM drive currently used in freefall. &a.chuck; contributed his floppy tape streamer for experimental work. Larry Altneu , and &a.wilko;, provided Wangtek and Archive QIC-02 tape drives in order to improve the wt driver. Ernst Winter contributed a 2.88 MB floppy drive to the project. This will hopefully increase the pressure for rewriting the floppy disk driver. ;-) sent one each of their DC-390, DC-390U and DC-390F FAST and ULTRA SCSI host adapter cards for regression testing of the NCR and AMD drivers with their cards. They are also to be applauded for making driver sources for free operating systems available from their FTP server . contributed not only a Symbios Sym8751S SCSI card, but also a set of data books, including one about the forthcoming Sym53c895 chip with Ultra-2 and LVD support, and the latest programming manual with information on how to safely use the advanced features of the latest Symbios SCSI chips. Thanks a lot! donated an FX120 12 speed Mitsumi CDROM drive for IDE CDROM driver development. Special contributors:

has donated almost more than we can say (see the document for more details). In particular, we would like to thank them for the original hardware used for freefall.FreeBSD.ORG, our primary development machine, and for thud.FreeBSD.ORG, a testing and build box. We are also indebted to them for funding various contributors over the years and providing us with unrestricted use of their T1 connection to the Internet. The has been patiently supporting &a.joerg; who has often preferred FreeBSD work over paywork, and used to fall back to their (quite expensive) EUnet Internet connection whenever his private connection became too slow or flakey to work with it... has contributed their DOS emulator code to the remaining BSD world, which is used in the dosemu command. Core Team Alumnus

The following people were members of the FreeBSD core team during the period indicated. We thank them for their past efforts in the service of the FreeBSD project!

In rough chronological order:

Guido van Rooij (1995 - 1999) John Dyson (1993 - 1998) Nate Williams (1992 - 1996) Rod Grimes (1992 - 1995) Andreas Schulz (1992 - 1995) Geoff Rehmet (1993 - 1995) Paul Richards (1992 - 1995) Scott Mace (1993 - 1994) Andrew Moore (1993 - 1994) Christoph Robitschko (1993 - 1994) J.T. Conklin (1992 - 1993) Derived Software Contributors

This software was originally derived from William F. Jolitz's 386BSD release 0.1, though almost none of the original 386BSD specific code remains. This software has been essentially re-implemented from the 4.4BSD-Lite release provided by the Computer Science Research Group (CSRG) at the University of California, Berkeley and associated academic contributors. There are also portions of NetBSD and OpenBSD that have been integrated into FreeBSD as well, and we would therefore like to thank all the contributors to NetBSD and OpenBSD for their work. Additional FreeBSD Contributors

(in alphabetical order by first name): ABURAYA Ryushirou AMAGAI Yoshiji Aaron Bornstein Aaron Smith Achim Patzner Ada T Lim Adam Baran Adam Glass Adam McDougall Adrian Colley Adrian Hall Adrian Mariano Adrian Steinmann Adrian T. Filipi-Martin Ajit Thyagarajan Akio Morita Akira SAWADA Akira Watanabe Akito Fujita Alain Kalker Alan Bawden Alan Cox Alec Wolman Aled Morris + Alex Alex D. Chen Alex G. Bulushev Alex Le Heux Alex Nash Alexander B. Povolotsky Alexander Leidinger Alexandre Snarskii Alistair G. Crooks Allan Saddi Allen Campbell Amakawa Shuhei Amancio Hasty Amir Farah Amy Baron Anatoly A. Orehovsky Anatoly Vorobey Anders Nordby Anders Thulin Andras Olah Andre Albsmeier Andre Oppermann Andreas Haakh Andreas Kohout Andreas Lohr Andreas Schulz Andreas Wetzel Andreas Wrede Andres Vega Garcia Andrew Atrens Andrew Gillham Andrew Gordon Andrew Herbert Andrew J. Korty Andrew L. Moore Andrew McRae Andrew Stevenson Andrew Timonin Andrew V. 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