Brian R. Jones wrote: > Let me start by saying that I am obviously late to the game and have a > lot of catching up to do. I have an urgent need to get GRUB working > well on FreeBSD. I have searched the archives and the bugs database > (and yet managed to not read the INSTALL document at first) and have > found answers to some of my questions, but not all. > You're always welcome to come to IRC. We welcome testers. But you should be aware that not always there is someone available for tech support. Except readlink/stat problem I was able to use freebsd with GRUB successfully (BIOS,GPT, ZFS). > I do not want to waste time of the people on this list, so the way I > figure it I can. > > 1) just fix what I need and not bother to tell y'all IRC (irc.freenode.net) is the best way to discuss something relating to your configuration unless you hit a bug. > 2) fix what I need and post my changes/issues here > Use [email protected]. All patches should go there. > 3) look into becomeing a GRUB contributor. > Subscribe to [email protected]. Voice your opinion on the matters that concern you, submit patches there too. You may create a personal repository to make tester's life easier. When you contribute something important the maintainer will contact you to sign few papers stating that you wrote the code yourself, own it and give FSF the power to protect it. This results in a delay before big patch can be applied but in most of cases it's resolved quickly. > At the moment, I would prefer doing 2) if that's ok. > >
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