Care and Feeding of OpenBSD Porters (2019)

Speaker: Kurt Mosiejczuk

Everyone thinks the best way to help with OpenBSD ports, is to find something you use that hasn't been ported and create a port of it. This talk will discuss this and other misconceptions, how best to actually help OpenBSD porters with their work, and tips for how to get one's work noticed on the OpenBSD ports lists. The talk will contain examples of good submissions and counterexamples likely to get ignored (these will be made up, I will not be singling out people).

This talk comes from my experience of working in OpenBSD ports for 8 months now. My own conceptions of how to be an OpenBSD porter were the common conceptions, but I came to realize that I was largely looking at porting work the wrong way.