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Enumerate some specific examples of porting tasks that are still needed.

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//FreeBSD//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional-Based Extension//EN" [
<!ENTITY base CDATA "../..">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/gnome/docs/volunteer.sgml,v 1.19 2006/08/19 21:20:35 hrs Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/gnome/docs/volunteer.sgml,v 1.20 2007/06/21 06:55:20 marcus Exp $">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD GNOME Project: How To Help">
<!ENTITY email "freebsd-gnome">
<!ENTITY % navinclude.gnome "INCLUDE">
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<li>
<p>Regularly install GNOME from packages, and report any problems
with the install or the functionality.</p></li>
<li>
<p>Find GNOME applications not yet ported to FreeBSD, and
work on porting them over.</p></li>
<li>
<p><a href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-SUBSCRIBE">
Subscribe</a> to the freebsd-gnome mailing list, and help
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versions. The builditinator.sh script, available from the
<a href="develfaq.html#q3">MarcusCom</a> portstools repository,
can automate the entire process, from start to finish.</p></li>
<li>
<p>The following non-trivial porting tasks are
needed.</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Fix <tt>sysutils/system-tools-backends</tt> to
work with all supported versions of FreeBSD. This
will require someone with FreeBSD configuration
knowledged as well as a good knowledge of Perl
programming. All patches can be submitted as
PRs.</p></li>
<li><p>Port <a
href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/">
NetworkManager</a> to FreeBSD. This will require
someone with C programming experience, and a good
knowledge of wireless networking in FreeBSD.
Additionally, this will require some FreeBSD
userland changes especially to
<tt>ifconfig</tt>.</p></li>
<li><p>Port the <a
href="http://live.gnome.org/GnomeBluetooth">GNOME
Bluetooth</a> suite to FreeBSD. This will require
someone with C programming experience and
Bluetooth devices. The bulk of the work will be
porting libbtctl to use FreeBSD's Bluetooth
stack.</p></li>
<li><p>Extend the FreeBSD hal backend to support missing
subsystems. Currently, the most notable missing
subsystems are <tt>ieee1394</tt> (i.e. Firewire),
<tt>bluetooth</tt>, and <tt>printer</tt>.
Those interested should use the latest <a
href="http://www.marcuscom.com/hal-spec/hal-spec.html">
HAL Specification</a> as a guide. Contact
<a
href="mailto:marcus@FreeBSD.org">marcus@FreeBSD.org</a>
if you wish to help with this task.</p></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Send any feedback to <a href="mailto:&email;@FreeBSD.org">