[illumos-Developer] Changes to illumos Contribution Process

[Bryan Cantrill]

Garrett,

> At this point, I'd like to point out that we have a "clone" of
> illumos-gate on github.
>
>        https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate
>
> So you can use git if you want to.  We also have an hg clone at
> bitbucket:
>
>        https://bitbucket.org/illumos/illumos-gate/overview
>
> For now, Advocates use hg as our "master" repository, but we are also
> talking about a conversion to git to make life better. That's a more
> detailed topic of conversation, but mostly the concern about whether
> we are using git or hg should be irrelevant to contributors, as they
> can use either and are not directly exposed to the integration step
> (hg push or git push for example.)
>
> The final tidbit here is that we need to set up a public page with a
> list of Advocates, but for now the list of illumos-gate Advocates is:
>
>     garrett at nexenta.com    Garrett D'Amore
>     trisk at nexenta.com      Albert Lee
>     richlowe at richlowe.net  Rich Lowe
>     gwr at nexenta.com        Gordon Ross
>
> As more people contribute and demonstrate a level of throughness and
> trustworthiness, I hope the above list will expand somewhat.

Great stuff!  Speaking as someone who has some patches to send, to
whom should I send them?  That is, is the list of advocates divided at
all by functional area?  For whatever it's worth, I have some DTrace
patches and some user-land SMF patches to send to whomever is most
appropriate.  (Both of these add new features, FWIW.)

        - Bryan