[OpenIndiana-New-developers] how to get started ...

[Jeff Radick]

Hi,

I've been doing software development (mostly Unix, mostly kernel, mostly 
networking, mostly some overlap between the three) for a couple of 
decades, but I'm new to OpenIndiana.  I haven't actually had much more 
than casual interaction with Solaris, though.  (But lots of working 
through the guts of some other Unixes going back as far as Bell Labs V6 
and V7 code on pdp-11s.)

I've got a VM of the oi_151a7 build installed but I'm trying to figure 
out where to go next.  I have a few questions.

1. Is there active development going on with this? It appears as if 
there aren't a lot of posts on the mailing lists I've sampled, but there 
are a few, and some recent wiki updates, so *something* is going on.

2. I'd like to start out by getting a source tree to browse, and if I 
have to pick I want to start with the kernel.  Is the best way to do 
this is to retrieve stuff from the mercurial repositories that appear to 
exist on hg.openindiana.org?  There seem to be a lot there, which one 
should I start with?

I'm not sure how far I want to get into this in terms of being an active 
contributor, but I want to start out by familiarizing myself with the 
system and finding out what the strengths and weaknesses are, and then I 
can try to decide what if anything it makes sense for me to contribute.

Regards,

Jeff Radick
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
jradick at earthlink dot net