[illumos-Developer] How can I help out?

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 01:41:02PM -0700, Andrew M. Hettinger wrote:
> Gary Mills wrote on 08/25/2010 10:38:07 AM:
> >
> > On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:36:22AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > I see that the search at bugs.opensolaris.org always returns nothing
> > now, even if you search by a valid BugID.  The oss-bite-size list is
> > still available, but it hasn't been updated since 2009.  I've reviewed
> > that before.  Many of the bugs are minor defects, ones that might
> > annoy system admins, but wouldn't be visible to users.  I've fixed
> > enough of those to learn the procedure.  Some have only vague
> > descriptions.  Others are bite-sized suggestions with enormous
> > ramifications.  I don't see much significant here.
> >
> > --
> > -Gary Mills-        -Unix Group-        -Computer and Network Services-
> >
> 
> Well this definitely clears up what we do when we overlap with
> Oracle's bugs. (nothing because we can't look at them anyway)

You can still pass a direct URL to the BugID in question and see
information:

  http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6852825

for example.  I suppose this may disappear as well..

Ray