Participate in OMC

Who and Why

• Do you care about open-standards systems management?
• Do you already participate in the DMTF at some level?
• Would you like to avoid 'reinventing the wheel'?
• Do you have expertise in some areas of systems management, but not other areas, and would like to collaborate efforts?

Then OMC is for you.
You are invited to participate in OMC - as a consumer or as a contributor.

Participant Information

How The Project Works

• For information on project administration, how to gain commit access, etc, visit the How The Project Works page.

Participation Levels

You can participate in OMC at various levels:

• Consumer
  • Package: Consuming the package to use in a product.
  • User: Using the tools in OMC for cim testing
  • Developer: Looking at or using OMC code as sample code.
• Contributor
  • Patch: The occasional contributor will submit patches to be incorporated into the project. This is what is referred to in the How The Project Works page as "Contributor"
  • Active: The active contributor will likely 'own' a portion of the project, and will have commit rights to the repository. This is what is referred to in the How The Project Works page as "Committer"

For all levels, we would like to know that you are participating in the project. You are encouraged to send a note to omc-devel mailing list, to let us know who you are, and how you'll be using OMC. Also, let us know whether we can reference your company (include a logo) as an OMC Participant.

How to Start Participating

1. Read the documents in the Documents section below
   
2. Post questions and comments to the omc-devel mailing list
3. Familiarize yourself with the project and code, perhaps submit a few bugfix patches.
   
4. As with most open-source projects, please start by contributing patches or a concept of what you plan to develop. People who have proven to deliver working code will be granted commit access to the svn repository.
5. After you become an active contributor and are granted 'committer' role, select an unassigned task to begin work on.

Ways to Gain Commit Access to Repository

Read the How The Project Works page.

Areas to get Involved

• Existing projects
  • omcclp - Out-of-band work
    • Current CLP implementation is in-band
  • omcSmash - Contribute additional profiles (see omcSmash page)
  • IPMI Library in Smash: RMCP (Remote Management Control Protocol)
• New Projects
  • Implementations of profiles from additional DMTF Working Groups
    • DMWG Profiles (Desktop/Mobile Management Working Group)
    • Pre-OS Profiles (out-of-band)
    • SVPC: System Virtualization & Partitioning / Clustering Working Group
• Propose a new sub-project
  • Console
  • Test Utility
  • API
  • Client

Documents

• Note: For project-specific documents, visit the individual project pages, via the project page

Setting up IPMI
OMC Coding Standards
OMC Contributor Agreement

Licenses

OMC is a project with many subprojects. As such, it utilizes various open-source licenses.
Even within a project, some files may have a more restrictive license than the primary license for the project, for various reasons.
If your use of the code requires such, please pay attention to the license for each file.

View the license file for the following subprojects:

• omcSmash
• omcBase
• omcCLP

Subversion Repository

• Browse Subversion Repository
• Read Subversion Instructions.

Bugs and Tasks

OMC uses Bugzilla for its bug-tracking and task-tracking.

Go to Bugs
Go to Tasks

Communication

Public Mailing Lists