> Hello everyone! Helo Gopi,
> This is my first mail to UG-Bosug. I'd be glad to join the community, and > thereof I ask several questions to begin with. Welcome to the community. > 1. What Subsystems or Components need help and effort from the community > developers ? > Or are best advisable to begin with ? The source browser on opensolaris.org shows source for different components as well as for different projects. Select the 'onnv' part while browsing. Thats the core Solaris part. Contribution in any subsystem is accepted. To start with, select the not-so-complicated bugs. These bugs are marked oss-bite-size. > 2. There are definite guidelines laid out, but is there also some kind of > Voluntary Mentoring available to > aspiring contributors ? Those who are participating in Code For Freedom contest, a mentor is provided for the duration of the contest (till Feb 2008). See http://www.codeforfreedom.in/ > 3. And does development of OpenSolaris differ from other Open Source > Projects in any major way, > that one needs to be aware of ? There are differences in the process. See the next Q. > 4. Finally the eminent question, how does one become a contributor to the > OpenSolaris ? See: http://blogs.sun.com/jkini/entry/contributing_to_opensolaris These have additional links which answers you other questions above. Regards, Kini -- jayakara.kini at gmail.com
