From: Kevin Williams <kevin@k9w.org>
Subject: Re: Outstanding patches on bugs@
To: tech@openbsd.org
Cc: Piotr Durlej <piotr@durlej.net>, henrichhartzer@tuta.io
Date: Fri, 17 May 2024 16:01:46 -0700

Henrich,

Thank you for advocating for Piotr's patches and expressing interest in 
contributing to OpenBSD.

usr.bin/ftp/ftp.c

His 11-30-2014 patch to would need to be rewritten at this stage to take 
into account the March 2023 commit and any other commits since 2014.

usr.bin/vacation/vacation.c

bin/cp/utils.c

bin/dd/dd.c

bin/dd/dd.h

These files have no new commits since Piotr's patches submitted April 
20th and 25th 2024. So they could apply cleanly as is, barring anything 
wrong with the patches themselves.

I am not a committer, nor proficient enough yet in the build process to 
test these patches.

But the biggest thing that could help out the OpenBSD developers is for 
other people to test patches like these and submit feedback to the same 
thread on the tech@ list for src, xenocara or www - or ports@ if it's 
for ports.

If non-committers test and report on eachother's patches, and if the 
patches align with OpenBSD's goals, they are more likely to be reviewed 
by OpenBSD developers.

On 5/17/24 12:02, henrichhartzer@tuta.io wrote:
> Hi OpenBSD developers,
>
> I've been curious about dabbling in OpenBSD development. I decided to skim through the bug@ and tech@ archives to see how the process looked.
>
> I spotted this email from over a week ago:
> https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-bugs&m=171515540220608&w=2
>
> Piotr has submitted four patches over the past ten years and none have landed. To my untrained eye, all are small, simple, and seem quite reasonable. One of them has a response, but the rest have none.
>
> I think OpenBSD is really cool and has a nice movement behind it. I just personally don't feel like I could do better than Piotr for patches, and it would be sad to not have any feedback. I know sometimes things get lost or people get busy, but this is four patches over quite a long time.
>
> I was hoping that by submitting it to this mailing list, maybe some more eyes might get on it.
>
> -Henrich
>