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--- bernardspil [2015/08/17 13:33] – BernardSpil
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 ====== AKA ======
+  * Bernard Spil [[https://brnrd.eu/|blog]]
   * brnrd@ (%%FreeBSD%% login)
   * Barnerd (on IRC) (EFNet, [[https://freenode.net/|FreeNode]], OFTC)
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     * [[https://github.com/Sp1l/ports|Ports]] overlay
-====== Works ======
+====== How I got here ======
-===== Porting =====
-  * [[LibreSSL#TODO|LibreSSL]] ports adaptions
+I've used %%FreeBSD%% since version 5.x and have been active on irc for a long time and never thought that I could actually contribute much to the project. Initially I submitted PRs for things that were broken for me (one maybe two every year). Later on I started submitting PRs including patches to fix the problem (as a non-committer that's very much appreciated) but again very few per year.
-  * %%MariaDB%% ports (maintainer for %%MariaDB%% [[http://www.freshports.org/databases/mariadb-server|5.3]] & [[http://www.freshports.org/databases/mariadb-server|10.0]])
-  * Work in progress
+As I got more sophisticated in fixing things in ports, the number of PRs and patches increased.
-    * [[https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/what-is-mariadb-101/|MariaDB 10.1]] incl rewrite/upstream of cmake patches
-    * [[https://github.com/OpenSMTPD/OpenSMTPD-extras|OpenSMTPd-extras]]
+At some point I decided that the [[https://bugs.freebsd.org/193539|MariaDB 10.0]] [[https://www.freshports.org/databases/mariadb100-server|port]] was due. So I started copying the 5.5 port, and failing time and again to get it to work but ultimately hacked it to build with 10.0! Along the way I interacted with the %%MariaDB%% community to solve some of the issues and after a while it was added to Ports. Suddenly I was a port maintainer (scary!).
-===== Documentation =====
+In this time-frame [[KubilayKocak|Kubilay (koobs) Kocak]] enlisted me in his wiki-army.
+**//The %%LibreSSL%% thing//**
+I was using %%LibreSSL%% about as soon as the Portable version was released and added to ports. This required me to patch some ports (Apache, Python, ...) so they would build and run with %%LibreSSL%%. That got noted and some guys on IRC were nagging and motivating (and helping!) me to do more patches. At some point Ken Moore (PC-BSD, BSDNow.tv) reached out to me because he wanted to do an EDGE (cutting edge PC-BSD) build with %%LibreSSL%% for ports. This was something I was looking for as it would surface all, well... most I was later to find out, problems with using %%LibreSSL%% as libssl/crypto provider. That was a very intense couple of weeks where a poudriere run would uncover problems with %%LibreSSL%%, after patching these problems more problems would surface, etc. Most issues could be binned into [[LibreSSL/PatchingPorts|categories]] (EGD removal, deprecated des_ methods, SSLv2 removal). All this resulted in [[LibreSSL/Ports#PC-BSD_10.1.2_ports_build]] and a large load of patches for ports as PRs in [[https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=__open__&content=LibreSSL|BugZilla]].
+When the initial fixing and patch creation was done, Kubilay spurred me on to upstream the patches which resulted in quite some changes, usually small, to all kinds of Open Source projects. And //boy// am I proud of the trivial changes that made it into these upstream projects! I can now truthfully say that changes I supplied to [[http://bugs.python.org/issue21356|Python]] are part of software running on many millions of systems. It's only me that knows that that's factually untrue  right?
+At some point [[http://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes/2015_03_25-ssl_in_the_wild|BSDnow.tv]] interviewed me on the %%LibreSSL%% story. Yup, that's scary but a confidence builder as well!
+After summer I was contacted by the %%LibreSSL%% devs from %%OpenBSD%% if I'd be willing to come to their %%LibreSSL%% Hackathon in Croatia 3 weeks later. That was an intense and fruitful week out there with some great guys! Exchanging information on how %%LibreSSL%% is used "in the wild", what challenges that that poses and learning on the development of %%LibreSSL%%.
+Around that time I learned that I was proposed to become a committer (or cursed with a commit bit?). This then takes some very confusing weeks to get through the process and get mentors assigned.
+Know what's awesome about spending all the effort? It's so immensely appreciated even though you don't often hear that directly. Sitting chatting in the hotel lounge during %%EuroBSDcon%% you suddenly hear the guy behind you shout out "What?!? YOU are that %%LibreSSL%% guy!?!".
+===== There is a moral to this story =====
+Enough of the self-promoting comments... This is what it revolves around
+  - Do NOT be afraid. No-one knows everything already, everyone's learning always...
+  - Do NOT hesitate to ask. Yet be aware that you'll be requested to do your part as well!
+  - GET STARTED. I've long thought I was not capable enough to contribute in this way (even though I wanted to).
+The %%FreeBSD%% community is awesome and full of helpful people! (and some trolls that //you must not let// put you down!)
+If anything I started this way too late. Imagine the damage I could've done when I had dug in earlier!
+PS. Haven't managed to mention the awesome [[JohannesMeixner|Johannes Meixner]] in this story, yet his support was invaluable!
+====== Porting ======
+  * [[LibreSSL#TODO|LibreSSL]] with ports and base
+  * [[MariaDB]] ports
+====== Documentation / Wiki article index ======
   * [[LibreSSL]] wiki article and sub-pages
   * [[OpenSSL]] wiki article and sub-pages
   * [[BernardSpil/PartialWorldBuilds|Partial build world]] for Sendmail or %%OpenSSL%% in base
   * [[BernardSpil/PortingWorkflow|The porting workflow]] I've established to hack ports (AKA Hack-a-Port)
+  * [[BernardSpil/PortingNotes|Notes on porting]] including scriptlets for common tasks
   * [[BernardSpil/MenteeProcess|The mentee process]] I followed after receiving a commit bit
   * [[BernardSpil/HomeServer|Configuration]] bits and pieces of my home server system
-  * [[BernardSpil/OpenSMTPd|OpenSMTPd and amavisd]] configuration
+    * [[BernardSpil/DHCP_DNS|dnsmasq and unbound]] configuration
+    * [[BernardSpil/MailServer|OpenSMTPd and amavisd]] configuration
+    * [[BernardSpil/LetsEncrypt|LetsEncrypt]] configuration (shell, Apache)
 ====== Working on ======
-  * <del>Python</del> (done)
+  * %%LibreSSL%% in base
-  * [[https://couchpota.to|CouchPotato]]
-  * [[http://sickbeard.com|SickBeard]]
+----
-  * <del>RAND_egd ([[LibreSSL#EGD|LibreSSL]])</del>
-  * <del>PC-BSD %%LibreSSL%% patches for the complete [[https://github.com/pcbsd/freebsd-ports|ports tree]]</del>
+{{tag>Homepage}}
-  * [[#Porting|Porting]]