John Sonnenschein wrote: > We are considering extending some of the utilities in GNU Coreutils to > provide support for some of the newer Solaris features. We would like > to discuss if you'd consider accepting these additions upstream. If > that is possible, we'd like to get your guidance on about how best to > achieve that goal. > > As an example, we could add NFSv4 ACL support to Coreutils which would > benefit all platforms that support NFSv4 or ZFS (eg, FreeBSD), not > just Solaris.
Proposals for improvement are always welcome. Before you get too far into it, please present your high-level goals on this list. Here are some general guidelines: http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/HACKING In particular, see the "Copyright" section. Depending on where you end up contributing, you may need to fill out paperwork for both coreutils and gnulib.
