On Fri, 15 Aug 2025 at 14:56, Atiq Rahman <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks to both of you.
You're welcome! > May I suggest we move https://www.illumos.org/projects to Github or GitLab? > Old tools look daunting and will essentially alienate new contributors. > Potential contributors are mostly using Github/Gitlab IMO. It has certainly been considered in the past, but it really isn't clear that merely changing to a different bug tracker or code review system is going to result in a significant wave of serious new contributions. The hurdle we actually have is that working on an operating system is itself often daunting. It's a large code base that has been around for a long time. It's not the kind of software that most people work on. There is a sort of implicit assumption, I guess, that it's going to be very difficult instead of merely a different kind of work. This isn't actually the case, of course: the kernel is just a big C program! Anybody can learn enough to contribute, if they're motivated. I think if you're already keen to contribute, it's unlikely, on balance, that the bug tracker is going to be the reason that you don't. Cheers. -- Joshua M. Clulow http://blog.sysmgr.org _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
