[illumos-Discuss] Compiling rest New Sol / Tutoring for participation

[Albert Lee]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Nikola M <minikola at gmail.com> wrote:
> I understand that Illumos is for OS/Net and making available and testing
> the base part of Opensolaris bits and that there is for others to
> install and build other bits.
> There is nice wiki instructions to after snv_134 Opensolaris, upgrade to
> 145 illumos and to build newer ON/Net after that.
>
> Now I am thinking, what could be done for the rest of it?
> I wasn't actually much aware of organized community teams with knowledge
> of building other consolidations (JDS etc..) and program porting.  (I
> guess before Opensolaris memo breakup, all that were doing people inside
> Orcl. and rest of people just expected binaries to appear in regular
> .iso's).

The pkgbuild, spec-files-extra, and JDS/desktop projects are fortunate
as they have a considerable amount of their expertise in external
participants (who can be found on the pkgbuild and desktop mailing
lists and #pkgbuild on Freenode).

-Albert