[illumos-Developer] How can I help out?

Garrett D'Amore garrett at damore.org
Sat Aug 14 09:38:02 PDT 2010


On 08/14/10 09:17 AM, Gary Mills wrote:
> I've just read all the mailing list archives to catch up.  There's
> lots of activity and a few heated discussions.  Most of the people are
> known to me and seem to have a great deal of development experience.
> I'm impressed!
>
> I'd like to help out with this project.  I have made a few
> contributions to Opensolaris, fixing bugs in the SMF area.  I have a
> couple of development platforms available: Virtualbox on an OS 134
> machine and a separate physical machine, both 64-bit x86.  Should I
> wait until Illumos has a bootable image, or is there something limited
> in scope that I can do now?
>
>    

What's your area of expertise?  I think there are probably things you 
can do to help out.

One thing I will say is this: if there are bugs in OpenSolaris, that 
you'd like to commit fixes for to illumos, then I think we can make that 
happen sooner rather than later.

     - Garrett




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