[illumos-Developer] How can I help out?

[Gary Mills]

On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 09:38:02AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> On 08/14/10 09:17 AM, Gary Mills wrote:
> >
> >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.

C programming, I suppose, in system utilities and libraries.  I have
no expertise in the kernel unless you count Minix.  I chose SMF
initially because I was impressed with the design.  Mainly, I wanted
to work my way through the Opensolaris development process.

> 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.

No, I don't have any bugs that I need to fix in OS.  I started with
bugs in SMF just because the reports pointed out work to be done.

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-Gary Mills-        -Unix Group-        -Computer and Network Services-