Re: Contributing

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hi Jeremy!

It's great that you are considering contributing :)

On Mon, 8 Dec 2025, Jeremy F wrote:

> I am looking for a project to contribute to, and all roads lately seem
> to come back to NetBSD. Since I am not savvy with C I thought perhaps
> pkgsrc may be a good place to begin. How might one find out which
> packages need help or perhaps are orphaned?

You could look at the pkgsrc doc/TODO file 
(https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/blob/trunk/doc/TODO). It suggests a ton 
of stuff. Maybe you could start by looking at one of the update 
suggestions and try updating something.

Once you have a patch, there are multiple ways to feed it back to us:

- commit the updated package to pkgsrc-wip and ask for it to be applied to
  pkgsrc itself. Getting an account for wip is easy.
- as an email attachment to one of the mailing lists
- you can file a PR with the patch

You can check the pkgsrc guide for help, or ask on IRC or here if you are 
stuck.

--
Benny