If you have found this page, chances are that you are considering to to contribute to this project.
Awesome!
This is a small, purely volunteer-driven project, so your contributions are highly welcome.
- Download the pre-alpha Live ISO from https://github.com/helloSystem/ISO/releases/tag/continuous-hello
- Look through the GitHub Issues sections of the projects within https://github.com/helloSystem/
- A great way to get started is to comment on some GitHub issues. Also feel free to open new ones. We use GitHub Issues as a means of discussion and keeping track of everything, so don't hesitate to use them. General topics not related to any particular component go to https://github.com/helloSystem/hello/issues
- Especially have a look at issues marked with
. Here your contributions would be especially helpful, but of course your contibutions to other tickets are more than welcome, too - There is a liberal amount of
FIXMEandTODOin the source code. Reducing the number of those is always highly welcome
- Please see https://github.com/helloSystem/hello for the general philosophy of the project
- Always keep in mind that our philosophy is "simple > complicated", "less, but better"
- We prefer small pull requests that change one thing each, rather than large ones that do many things at once
- Please avoid complex code structures that require deep C++ knowledge (e.g., avoid subclassing, pointer arithmetic,... where possible)
- We appreciate code with comments that explain why we are doing something
- Our policy is to merge PRs liberally but roll back changes that cause breakage quickly.
mastermust always build and not crash
Here is what we need help with: Issues flagged with help-wanted, and of course other contributions are also welcome.
Maybe you'd like to look into one of these: Issues flagged with good-first-issue.
Skills/resources we don't currently have and would highly appreciate help with
| Skillset needed | Topic | Status | Rationale | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FreeBSD kernel | Overhaul/bugfixing for unionfs.ko to remove crashes in FreeBSD 13 when attempting to create a read-write root filesystem | Idea | Improve robustness of the Live system infrastructure | probonopd |
| OpenZFS | A way to combine read-only (Live ISO) with read-write (ramdisk) to create a read-write root filesystem | Idea | Use ZFS for the Live system without the need for unionfs | probonopd |
| FreeBSD kernel, graphics | Zero-text bootsplash that shows a boot animation and hides all text unless verbosity is explicitly requested | Idea | Put together "appliance" style systems that are not frightening non-technical users | probonopd |
| FreeBSD build system | Kernel-related packages built for each FreeBSD version (details) | idea | Xorg fails on 12.2-RELEASE | probonopd |
| FreeBSD Linuxulator | Make it possible for Linux applications to use FreeBSD D-Bus | Idea | Have Linux applications to use the global menu that is running on FreeBSD | probonopd |
| FreeBSD kernel, Golang | Enable Go-based FUSE filesystems for FreeBSD (issue) | Idea | Packages that are images rather than archives: Experiment with distr1 concepts on FreeBSD | probonopd |
| Qt, OpenZFS | ZFS snapshot, clone integration into the file manager | Idea | Expose the power of ZFS to non-technical users | probonopd |
| Skillset needed | Topic | Status | Rationale | Contact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qt | Improve the Filer (file manager) | Please see https://github.com/helloSystem/Filer/issues | probonopd | |
| Qt | Improve the Menu (global menu bar) | Please see https://github.com/helloSystem/Menu/issues | probonopd |