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Community Resources
Improving OpenSolaris
An overview for developers, writers and testers
Community Lead Reference
How to manage your community on the site
Developer Guide
Answers to most of your questions
Development Process
Detailed guide to integrating changes
Key Communities
OS/Net (ON)
Release management for SunOS 5.11
OpenSolaris Governing Board
Representative community governance
Documentation
Guides and Man Pages
Tools
Tools for compiling and working with the OS
I18n/L10n
Code and translations for global users

OpenSolaris Communities

OpenSolaris communities are social groups whose members engage in open conversations and will have representation in the governance process. Although communities do not have source repositories, it's expected that communities will endorse technical projects and have projects of their own.

Community members can propose new Community Groups by writing to the ogb-discuss list outlining items such as goals, technical scope, potential participants, leaders, and activities. Proposals need to list at least 3 current Core Contributors who are nominating the community, at least 3 participants who will become the initial Core Contributors of the new community, and one person who will serve as the community's Facilitator. Further details on Community creation and governance can be found in Article VII of the OpenSolaris Constitution.

Academic and Research
A community for students, faculty, and researchers
Advocacy Community Group
Advocacy Community Group. OpenSolaris User Groups: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/advocacy/usergroups/ug-leaders/
Appliances
A community for building diverse appliances using OpenSolaris
Approachability
The Approachability community will be focused on eliminating annoying and substantial gaps in the Solaris operating system.
Architecture Process and Tools
System Architecture Process and Tools
BrandZ
BrandZ (Branded Zones) extends the Solaris Zones infrastructure to enable the creation of non-native zones on a Solaris system, including Linux Zones.
Chinese Users
A Community targetting to the Chinese market, with Chinese Universities as the top priority.
DTrace
DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for the Solaris Operating Environment.
Databases
This community is a gathering place for both database users and engineers building databases on Solaris. Any discussions relevant to databases on Solaris are welcome here. Some potential discussion topics: how to improve Solaris to better serve database technologies; how to make databases run best on Solaris; differences between various database technologies and which one is best suited for a given use; and so on.
Desktop
The OpenSolaris Desktop Community
Device Drivers
The Device Drivers will promote and support the creation of additional device drivers for OpenSolaris.
Documentation
Documentation, including the feature documentation collections, man pages, and guides.
Fault Management
Tools, technology, infrastructure, and content to permit Solaris and Sun products to recover from, diagnose, isolate, and explain faults.
GNU Solaris
A community about GNU Solaris
Games on OpenSolaris
The OpenSolaris games community serves to list games that can be played on OpenSolaris, to provide instructions for downloading and running them, and to host new games that OpenSolaris contributors have written.
HA Clusters
A community for exploring high-availability cluster innovations, research, and implementations, including the Open High Availability Cluster project. This community focuses on clusters for high-availability, as opposed to HPC clusters, grids, or other cluster technologies.
HPC Developer
The goal of this community is to promote High Performance Computing on OpenSolaris.
Installation and Packaging
Technologies and processes related to installation, packaging, patching, and construction of OpenSolaris distributions.
Internationalization and Localization
Community for OpenSolaris software internationalization and localization.
Laptop
Using Solaris as your ultimate mobile computing platform.
Modular Debugger (MDB)
Solaris Modular Debugger (MDB) is a debugger designed to facilitate analysis of certain problems.
NFS
Network File System as implemented in OpenSolaris
Networking
A community on Networking
OS/Net (ON)
Information for ON developers
Observability
Tools and facilities for observing software and hardware behavior on OpenSolaris.
OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB)
The OpenSolaris Governing Board (OCB) oversees the functioning of, and resolves disputes within, the OpenSolaris Community. The Board is elected by the Community's Core Contributors.
OpenSolaris Printing
Printing technologies
Performance
The OpenSolaris Performance Community
PowerPC
The goal of this community is to create an OpenSolaris port that runs on PowerPC hardware.
Security
The Security Geek Corner
Service Management Facility (smf(5))
The Service Management Facility is a mechanism to define, deliver and manage long-running application services for Solaris.
Solaris Volume Manager
An enterprise class logical volume manager. The goal of this community is to discuss its features and collaborate on future enhancements.
Storage
A community for storage in OpenSolaris. We are interested in hardware, filesystems, and protocols for remote access of the storage.
Systems Administration Community Group
A community for systems administrators, engineers, and architects to collaborate and enhance the manageability of OpenSolaris.
Testing
Community for software testing discussions and collaboration.
Tools
The Tools community covers compilers, source code management, and tools used in software construction in OpenSolaris generally.
Unix File Systems (UFS)
General Discussion about the Unix File System(UFS), the generic file system layer and file system utilities technologies
X Window System
The X Window System as implemented in OpenSolaris.
Xen
The Xen community is intended to focus specifically on the OpenSolaris side of the OpenSolaris on Xen project.
ZFS
ZFS is a new kind of filesystem that provides simple administration, transactional semantics, end-to-end data integrity, and immense scalability.
Zones
Zones provide a means of creating virtualized operating system environments within an instance of Solaris, allowing one or more processes to run in isolation from other activity on the system.