Newcomers
Welcome
OpenZFS brings together developers and users from various open-source forks of the original ZFS on different platforms and we're always looking to grow our community. There are a multitude of ways to contribute to the project and contributors happy to help newcomers. As we add diverse perspectives, our community becomes richer, and we're committed to creating an environment where all people feel welcome.
Resources for Newcomers
Discussion
The community communicates a couple different ways - some of the main ones include:
- An OpenZFS mailing list designed for ZFS developers to review ZFS code and architecture changes from all platforms.
- A Slack workspace that you're welcome to join for questions, communication during conferences, and general community discussion.
- The OpenZFS Twitter account, which shares community updates and promotes ZFS-related events, blog posts, and talks.
- contact people responsible - serapheim
Getting Started
- Section: What's easiest way to get started -> Documentation+Wiki, ZoL Get Started + userspace changes, kernel bugs - serapheim
Learning about ZFS
Here are some introductory resources. For more details about specific parts of ZFS look at the developer resources page
OpenZFS Basics | Matt Ahrens and George Wilson | May 2018 |
Lecture on ZFS Read/Write Code Paths | Matt Ahrens | March 2016 |
OpenZFS Novel Algorithms | Matt Ahrens | March 2017 |
- experts link - serapheim
Events
- OpenZFS Developer Summit - Videos from 2017
- ZFS User Conference - Videos from 2018
- Checkout the Events page for others