It's been a few weeks since I last posted an update on the activities of the Solaris Installation team, so I thought we should celebrate the solstice with the current news.
Today I've posted a very high-level component diagram [1] and near-term roadmap [2] and related notes [3] for the Caiman program [4] (if you haven't read at least the final sections of this last reference, the previous ones will probably be somewhat hard to understand). The near-term roadmap describes very tersely what the Caiman team is doing for the next 3-6 months. In a nutshell: - investigation and evaluation of technologies for the installation engine and disk partitioning is underway - a team has been formed to start on the replacement of the venerable sysidtool(1m) - the Live Media project should be open soon (I know I said this a while back, but it really is getting closer) - we now have an engineer actively working on open-sourcing the remainder of the current installation code - ITU improvements are coming, and we're thinking about how to make it even better We also are progressing on the Zulu project, which will introduce complete upgrade support for systems with Zones, replacing the solution currently used in Solaris 10 Update releases. It's occurring to me as I write this that we haven't posted any docs related to that project to the community. I'll see about doing so soon. We'll be continuing our efforts to bring more of our activity out into the community for wider participation, but if there's something in particular that you think we could be doing better to foster this community, please let us know. Dave [1] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/install/files/caiman_arch.pdf [2] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/install/files/roadmap_people.pdf [3] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/install/files/initial_roadmap.txt [4] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/install/files/install_strategy.pdf
