Hello from a noob who wishes to contribute.

[Satyajit Ranjeev]

I have heard of everything being well documented in man pages in the
BSD world. I am pleasantly surprised.

Thanks for the tip. It seems to be a fairly good point to start with
drivers. I do have a problem with my laptop's screen brightness cannot
be dimmed. May be a good spot to start.

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 4:58 AM, Justin Sherrill
<justin at shiningsilence.com> wrote:
> The thing I tell people most often, for this sort of question, is:
> work on a project that you find personally useful.  A driver for
> hardware you have, a particular tool you already use, etc.  Otherwise,
> it's likely you will give up when frustrated because you don't see any
> benefit from the work.
>
> More specifically, the 'development' man page may be useful.
>
> https://www.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=development&section=ANY
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 5:50 PM, Satyajit Ranjeev <s at ranjeev.in> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Like many I have been programming for a long time and never got my
>> hands onto kernel development. I have been developing web applications
>> and some times implementations of protocols. I have tried developing
>> toy file systems and persistent queues most of which are half
>> completed. I have had an itch to do some low level programming for a
>> very long time.
>>
>> Being a long time Linux user I was quite disappointed by the forceful
>> move to systemd, what annoys me the most is how it is engulfing
>> several projects. This led me to try out several of the BSD's. I came
>> across DragonFlyBSD as it seemed to have best driver support for my
>> laptop.
>>
>> I was pleasantly surprised by the welcoming note on the home page
>> titled "Now Hiring". I started going through your various projects and
>> research ideas and found them quite interesting and quite overwhelming
>> seeing that there are so many tasks. Is there some place I could
>> start? I like file systems, so would HAMMER be a good place to start
>> with? Or would it be wise to pick up a tiny bug and try solving it?
>>
>> I would appreciate any feedback and would love to be a part of this community.
>>
>> Looking to help out,
>>
>> satran