Chapter 14. Becoming a Developer

Chapter 12 introduced you to some of the areas any PC-BSD user can explore to contribute to the PC-BSD community. This chapter covers more advanced forms of contribution that typically require programming skills. If you are a programmer, taking programming in school and looking for opportunities to practice your skills, or if you are interested in learning more about how the PC-BSD operating system and push button installer applications (PBIs) are developed, this chapter is for you.

We begin by describing the PC-BSD release engineering process and the resources available to developers to give you an idea of what to expect. If you have limited programming knowledge, you can still successfully complete the tasks found ...

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