[illumos-Developer] How can I help out?

[Ian Collins]

On 08/26/10 11:53 AM, Greg Eanes wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Ray Van Dolson<rvandolson at esri.com>  wrote:
>    
>> 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.etwork 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..
>>      
> This is apparently a temporary issue. See the following OpenSolaris.org
> website-discuss thread for more info.
>
> http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=133323&tstart=0
>    
It has now been addressed:

http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=133382&tstart=0

-- 
Ian.