On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:43:32AM +0200, Ignacio Marambio Catn wrote: > On 9/12/06, Stephen Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Dan Price wrote: > >> And then to pick up an oss-bite-size bug and work on it: > >> > >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/bug_reports/oss_bite_size/ > > > >I can vouch for this. I am the epitome of a newbie; I haven't really > >coded any C since college over a decade ago. I started out this way and > >have about half a dozen putbacks so far. > > > i'm not saying that the current method does not work, in fact i'm > impressed by how many contributions opensolaris has had the last year, > the code is new to many and yet we had over 100 contributions. I just > think we could work on a more friendly welcome than the current "here > are the build instructions, here is the coding standard an the devel > guide, here are the oss_bits, now you're on your own".
to be fair, the whole "sponsor" program is to ensure that you are, in fact, NOT on your own. > maybe we could collect the experience of those that have already > contributed code and write something down, how did they find out about > the bug, the context of the bug, how the code/subsystem that contained > the bug should work, what does the fix actually do and mix some code > there. Just a thought this is a great idea... i'd like to see this. it would be a great way to encourage people to contribute. > anyway, i went very off topic, sorry about that :) off-topic? this was one of the most ON-topic messages around. far more than most sadly. :) cheers, steve -- stephen lau // [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net opensolaris // solaris kernel development _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
