Resources [FreeBSD WIKI]

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GNATS Problem Report query webpage
GNATS Problem Report Submission webpage
New PRs in the last 24 hours; New PRs in the last week; New PRs in the last month. They are static and generated once a day for now.
PRs in the feedback state which have not been modified in 2 months. That one is static and generated once a day for now.
PRs recommended for committer evaluation by the bugbusting team. That one is static and generated once a day for now.
PRs indexed by manpage. That one is static and generated once a day for now.
PRs indexed by tag. That one is static and generated once a day for now.
PRs which may have already been committed. That one is static and generated once a day for now.
PRs with patches. That one is static and generated once a day for now.
Well-Known PRs as determined by the bugbusting team. That one is static and generated once a day for now. (This one is new and includes commentary and analysis.)

Writing FreeBSD Problem Reports
Problem Report Handling Guidelines (for FreeBSD contributors with access to the PR database)
Kernel Bug Report Triaging Guide (preliminary)
Bugbusting Tips and Tricks
How to deal with PRs that have been flagged as having patches in them.
Kernel Debugging Guide in the Developer's Handbook
Introduction to Debugging the FreeBSD Kernel presented by JohnBaldwin at BSDCan 2008. Consider this to be recent extensions to the above. Recommended.
ACPI Debugging Guide in the Developer's Handbook. This is a good place to start if you are having problems with identifying hardware. (For instance, for many irq routing, hanging, device not accessible, panics, etc., you might want to see if disabling acpi fixes the problem in question. There are a large number of bad BIOS implementations out there; we put in hacks to work around as many as we can, but more are always needed.)
Information about Debugging with gdb on FreeBSD
Greg Lehey's debugging tutorial. This may not be as up-to-date as some of the above.

The freebsd-bugbusters mailing list (for general discussion about bugbusting). Periodic postings include:

Information about Bugathons
Commonly Reported Issues formerly maintained by Jeremy Chadwick
A list of committers willing to have PRs assigned to them. (This is in addition to the auto-assigns to mailing lists, and for ports)
signup sheet for volunteers
how to help

The State of Bugbusting talks about the state of bugbusting on FreeBSD, and discusses ideas for how we can improve.
FreeBSD Bugbusting: Where We Are, Where We Ought To Be. This is MarkLinimon's presentation at BSDCan 2008, and includes some new analysis and ideas in addition to the above.