Hiya Rainer, Thanks for this question, I have one additional volunteer who mailed me offline, so that makes four of us--very cool! More are always welcome. Here's the process as I understand it and an example news report from Glynn below for reference.
Process: 1. subscribe to a few lists. (From what I already subscribe to regularly, I know that Rainer is active on sysadmin-discuss, Paul is active on storage, maybe zfs/nfs lists too?, Joythi watches docs-discuss, any others Joythi? I watch ogb-discuss, tools-discuss, website-discuss, osol-announce. Need someone for that Big osol-discuss list.) 2. Set up folders to filter the list mail. (I don't actually do this, but it is what Glynn did to manage this originally. My email sorting/processes stink, so I'm a very bad example, I have one folder, it is called Inbox :) 3. At end of the week, go into the folders and spend a few hours pulling out summaries of discussions, quotes that are interesting, and good tidbits that might have been lost in the slew of mails. 4. After you have a little blurb or two from each folder, map the blurbs to the URLs for the associated threads on opensolaris.org and put them in a new file, then empty the folders of all mail. 5. Put all the little blurbs with URLs to the discussion threads into one mail. 6. Send that one mail to osol-discuss and osol-announce lists for the benefit of community. See below for an example from a while back, looks like Glynn usually cited about 15-20 items in each weekly digest. We can alter this if we want to, we can have one person each week, or we can combine the effort, which might make more sense. So, we'd each contribute blurbs each week from the lists we already watch. See below for example. (I also copy content-discuss here because they used to house the Newsletter, which is no longer being written, so they might want to join this effort instead and possibly host it on their pages, since folks go there for the old newletters already.) Thanks all, much appreciated! -Michelle Hey, Another week goes by, but some more good progress being made. Nice work all! Glynn == > > Derek Cicero announced [1] that build 47 of Solaris Express Community > > Release > > was now available for download. > > > > 1. > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-September/000252.html > > > > Jim Grisanzio mailed [2] to say that DTrace had won the Wall Street > > Journal's > > 2006 Technology Innovation Award. Congratulations to Bryan, Mike, and Adam. > > > > 2. > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-September/000253.html > > > > Steve Lau announced [3] that the sources for build 48 of ON were now > > available, > > along with the usual Mercurial changeset. > > > > 3. > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-September/000259.html > > > > Stephen Hahn mailed [4] the latest meeting notes from the CAB, with > > discussion > > of the governance/constitution, and some discussion about the need to > > localize > > certain entry points into opensolaris.org, along with some details of the > > starter kit. > > > > 4. > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/private/cab-discuss/2006-September/000636.html > > > > Bonnie Corwin mailed [5] to say that the program roadmap for OpenSolaris has > > been updated. > > > > 5. > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/program-team/2006-September/000319.html > > 6. http://opensolaris.org/os/about/roadmap/ > > > > Dan Price posted [7] details of his changes to webrev, including further > > visual > > cleanup, improved non-wx operation, getopts command line driven interface, > > and > > other improvements picked up from the various RFE's logged previously. Dan > > asked > > if anyone had access to Internet Explorer, or Safari, that he would be > > grateful > > if it could be tested out on those platforms. > > > > 7. > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2006-September/000854.html > > > > Venky Tv posted [8] a guide for new Mercurial users on the OpenSolaris wiki. > > Feel free to contribute. > > > > 8. > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2006-September/000861.html > > > > On top of Steve's bugzilla installation [9], Keith Wesolowski questioned > > [10] > > whether this would cause the death of progress being made to open up > > bugster > > where project teams would favour the current open bugzilla installation. > > Steve > > argued [11] that that it was definitely meant to be a short term solution, > > and > > that he did not favour a mass migration of all the current set of bugs, let > > alone figure out any confidentiality issues. Valerie Anne Bubb provided > > [12] > > a bit of historial content, having been Solaris' representative talking to > > the > > bugster team previously. Rich Lowe provided [13] some context on the current > > stresses of not having an open bug tracking system. Karyn Ritter assured > > [14] > > that while progress was slow going, that it was a priority, and that > > external > > experiences would be an invaluable prod to getting things moving. > > > > 9. http://bugs.grommit.com/ > > 10. > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2006-September/000864.html > > 11. > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2006-September/000867.html > > 12. > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2006-September/000870.html > > 13. > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2006-September/000875.html > > 14. > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2006-September/000877.html > > > > Steve Lau posted [15] a heads up that the current ONNV community has how > > been > > renamed ON [16]. > > > > 15. > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/website-discuss/2006-September/000897.html > > 16. http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on > > > > Nils Nieuwejaar mailed [17] with a heads up that BrandZ has been integrated > > into > > mainline Solaris, available in build 49. Congratulations to the BrandZ team. > > > > 17. > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-September/020234.html > > > > Eric Lowe proposed [18] a new virtualization project, to provide DMA memory > > infrastructure, required for developing new high-performance DDI DMA > > interfaces > > with improved RAS. > > > > 18. > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-September/020259.html > > > > Alan Hargreaves mailed [19] with details of the non-debug bits for build 49. > > > > 19. > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-September/020300.html This message posted from opensolaris.org
