How to Participate

Below are some pointers to more resources for getting involved with OpenSolaris. If you're a member of an OpenSolaris Community Group, Project, or User Group and you have a participation process we could link to from this page, please email website-discuss AT opensolaris DOT org.

Explore the Source

• Download source code. Pointers to build instructions will be available with download information. Or view source code online.
• Browse source code. Search the source from multiple projects and consolidations.

Join a Collective

There are three types of Collectives and they contain hundreds of groups on opensolaris.org. Pick an area that interests you, subscribe to the mailing list(s) to find out what's going on, start talking to people, and just get involved. Also, many groups publish lists of ways to contribute to their projects.

• Community Groups: Social groups whose members engage in open conversations, endorse technical Projects, and have representation in the governance process.
• Projects: Collaborative technical efforts.
• User Groups: Independently-run groups around the world that advocate for OpenSolaris.

Contribute

The OpenSolaris project requires contributors to jointly assign their copyright on contributed code by signing and submitting a Oracle Contributor Agreement. Refer to the OCA FAQ for answers to your questions.

Refer to the OpenSolaris Development Process document for more information. You can also join a project or start a new project. Refer to the instructions for starting a new project on the projects page.

Bug Reports

• defect.opensolaris.org is a public Bugzilla database. Many projects being developed on opensolaris.org use this database, and users of Sun's OpenSolaris distributions are encouraged to use this database.

For questions or discussion about specific code, the discussion list for the related project or community, or the opensolaris-code mailing list can be used.

Other

Efforts for and around the OpenSolaris project continue to grow outside of this website. Community efforts like blastwave.org, cuddletech, genunix.org, sunfreeware.com, and BeleniX are examples.