OpenBSD project goals
Each person working on OpenBSD has their own aims and priorities, but the
goals of project as a whole are to:
- Provide the best development platform possible - with
full source access for openbsd developers and users
- Work towards a machine independent source tree.
- Support as many different systems and hardware as feasible.
- Be as politics free as possible - solutions should be
decided on the basis of technical merit.
- Provide a good cross compile/development platform.
- Integrate good code from any source with acceptable
copyright (Berkeley style preferred, GPL acceptable, NDA not).
- Import external packages with minimal modifications -
making upgrading much easier. Also to submit back to the
developers any changes made.
Projects looking for a home (Help wanted)
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:
- Tracking NetBSD commits
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
<niklas@openbsd.org>
- Sparc esp driver
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
<deraadt@theos.com>,
(now back from vacation :).
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