Post by @greylinux
Out of interest, why does NetBSD not have a forum to get help and ask questions?
@jaypatelani@bsd.network
@greylinux admins@ are already overworked hosting various services, and the community is hosting several forums which are Good Enough(tm).
ooh, I didn't know there were other forums, where are these forums?
do you mind if I ask how many developers work on NetBSD? of course I understand all the work on NetBSD is by volunteers this is all just about better understanding the team that create this amazing OS.
edit: I managed to find the forums, I somehow managed to overlook the community page on the website
@greylinux There are 138 NetBSD developers as of 2026-06-06, with varying levels of activity. Note that in this case "developers" is a synonym for "people with commit access" and "members of the foundation".
The foundation has one employee, martin, our lovely release engineer.
@washbear@mastodon.sdf.org
Thank you for the information, this is inspiring to know that so many people are working on NetBSD. I wasn't aware that foundation had a full time employee, is the aim to work towards more full time employees if the donations continue to increase?
@greylinux There's a very comprehensive list here https://www.netbsd.org/community/
In particular, the unitedbsd forum has quite good stuff in it
@tfb@bsd.cafe @netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org
Annoyingly , I found it in the end, can't believe I overlooked the community page.....DOH!
but thank you for the reply all the same
@greylinux
There is https://www.unitedbsd.com/
And, traditionally, there are mailing lists and IRC channel where the general community helps.
As well as people reachable with that hashtag here, on fediverse.
@greylinux @netbsd There are mailing lists!:
https://www.NetBSD.org/mailinglists/
...and also IRC and possibly other channels, see: https://www.NetBSD.org/community/
There's more interest in mailing lists in the community. Also, there's a healthy IRC channel on Libera.chat.
@mason@partychickens.net @netbsd@mastodon.sdf.org
Thanks for the reply , I've been using the IRC channel quite a bit these last couple of weeks, it's been quite nice using IRC again.
