> On 02/ 8/10 03:47 PM, Thommy M. Malmström wrote: > >> After attending FOSDEM this weekend I'm interested > in > >> contributing to the OpenSolaris project. > >> I'm not a brilliant coder, I'm not great with the > >> logic of code and I've only been taught Java. But > >> I'm not bad at formatting code and knowing where > >> comments should and shouldn't be. > >> > >> Is code fairly clean already? Could I use my free > >> time to reformat code to conform to a specific > style? > >> If so how can I download the code for OpenSolaris > >> and make these changes? Or would it require me to > >> pick a project within OpenSolaris > >> (JDS/Kernel/IPS/etc)? > > > > Not to disappoint you, but the code has been worked > on for +20 years, so it's fairly clean I would say. > > There are plenty of opportunities in this area still, > in part because ti > is 20+ years old :)
Yeah, yeah, I know. "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow..." etcetera. But I would say it's rather complex to just dive into the Solaris code if you're not a rather experienced coder. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
