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<h1>OpenBSD project goals</h1>
Each person working on OpenBSD has their own aims and priorities, but the
goals of project as a whole are to:
<ul>
<li> Provide the best development platform possible - with
full source access for openbsd developers and users
<li> Work towards a machine independent source tree.
<li> Support as many different systems and hardware as feasible.
<li> Be as politics free as possible - solutions should be
decided on the basis of technical merit.
<li> Provide a good cross compile/development platform.
<li> Integrate good code from any source with acceptable
copyright (Berkeley style preferred, GPL acceptable, NDA not).
<li> Import external packages with minimal modifications -
making upgrading much easier. Also to submit back to the
developers any changes made.
</ul>
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<h3>Projects looking for a home (Help wanted)</h3>
There are various ways in which people who have time to spare can help
the OpenBSD project. Some require technical knowledge, while others do not:
<ul>
<li> <b>Tracking NetBSD commits</b><br>
OpenBSD was originally derived from NetBSD, and still tracks the
changes & improvements made to NetBSD. If you have the time to
assist in such work please get in touch with Niklas Hallqvist
<a href=mailto:niklas@openbsd.org><niklas@openbsd.org></a>
<li> <b>Sparc esp driver</b><br>
The sparc esp scsi driver has two known problems - on some systems
with a floppy drive the scsi probe will hang unless there is a disk
in the drive, and more seriously multiple scsi targets do not
currently work. The current driver was written by Theo de Raadt
<a href=mailto:deraadt@theos.com><deraadt@theos.com></a>,
(now back from vacation :).
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