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

[Will]

Jeff,

Funny I just did same thing in regards to sampling the mailing lists. It 
does seem like there is movement starting again--and some updating.

Thank You,
Will

On 7/2/13 3:42 PM, Jeff Radick wrote:
> 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
>
>
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