Help - busybox

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sun May 10 20:58:36 UTC 2009


On Thursday 07 May 2009 15:56, David Krakov wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm taking an university course on 'open source development', with a
> requirement to choose an open source project, and help.
> Busybox seems nice enough, so I figured, why not.
> 
> I was searching for stuff to do in the TODO file (is it up to date? no
> commit for two months), but it seems there are either very small stuff
> or very big stuff involving rewriting core applets, which may not fit
> in the time I have for this course assignment. How up to date is it?
> 
> Stuff I can do:
>  * Porting of new applet - some networking applets I'll be happy
> to see in busybox: tc, brctl, some options of ip - I'll do that if
> there are no better suggestions.
>  * Fixing/changing a specific applet with a specific needed change (do
> some of the small stuff in the TODO file).
>  * Add very needed tests for some applet.
> 
> Any suggestions / guidelines-for-the-new-clueless-noob / pending issues to fix?

I think ntpd will be nice to have.
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vda


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