[illumos-Developer] How can I help out?

[Garrett D'Amore]

So my advice for people wanting to help out but without a specific area 
of interest is this.  Comb through the bug reports for OpenSolaris.  
bugs.opensolaris.org  -- look for oss-bite-size for simple bugs to use 
as a starting point.

     - Garrett

On 08/14/10 10:35 AM, Gary Mills wrote:
> 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.
>
>