Hey, Woo, we made it through to a whole year of the weekly summaries! ;)
Glynn == Simon Phipps announced [1] the last day of the nomination period. Casper Dik [2], Joerg Schilling [3], James Carlson [4], Alan Coopersmith [5], John J McLaughlin [6], and Dennis Clarke [7] all accepting their nominations. Stephen Hahn announced [8] the official start of the elections and constitution ratification, after a test of the polling mechanism [9]. 1.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-March/000923.html 2.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-March/001740.html 3.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-March/001742.html 4.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-March/001708.html 5.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-March/001715.html 6.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-March/001747.html 7.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-March/001776.html 8.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-March/000930.html 9.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-March/000928.html Bryan Cantrill requested [10] that a candidate alias to be set up so that the DTrace could ask a set of questions [11] specific to their community to the candidates. 10.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-March/001801.html 11.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/dtrace-discuss/2007-March/003499.html Stephen mailed [12] with concerns for the test poll penetration, indicating only 15% have currently participated, and it was later decided [13] to extend the poll by 48 hours, encouraging those who had a vote to use it. Al Hopper asked [14] another set of questions for candidates. 12.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-March/001833.html 13.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-March/001848.html 14.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-March/001846.html Derek Cicero announced [15] that build 59 of Solaris Express Community Edition was now available. Steve Lau announced [16] that build 60 was now available. 15.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-March/000924.html 16.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-March/000931.html Eric Boutilier forwarded [17] links for 3 screencasts done by various community members on DTrace, Chime and Dual Booting. 17.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/dtrace-discuss/2007-March/003475.html Gary Pennington provided [18] an update on the website infrastructure, hoping to see some progress by the second quarter of this year, citing a lot of legal and technical diligence being required. 18.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/website-discuss/2007-March/003119.html Sara Dornsife mailed [19] saying that there was an opportunity for an OpenSolaris track at JavaOne this year, with 4 sessions needed to be filled. 19.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-mktg/2007-March/003493.html Freeman Liu proposed [20] a project to enable running a driver in user mode as an application, so that source code can be leveraged from other OSes by converting them into Solaris user application. Artem Kachitchkine argued [21] that this was a flawed motiviation for adding frameworks just to get around legal issues. 20.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-February/025742.html 21.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-March/025932.html John Rice proposed [22] a project for providing DTrace probes to Firefox, including a dynamic tracing framework to allow developers to easily add custom DTrace probes to the Mozilla code. 22.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-March/025994.html Tom Haynes proposed [23] a project for NFS server in a local zone, endorsed by both the NFS and Zones community. Robert Thurlow proposed [24] a new project that delivers NFSv4 extensions for mirror mounts, referrals and replication and migration. 23.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-March/026021.html 24.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-March/025990.html Anders Persson proposed [25] a project for providing a well defined kernel sockets interface, rather than having developers use private kernel interfaces. 25.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-March/026114.html Ivan Zavala proposed [26] a new local opensolaris.org portal to be set up for Mexico. 26.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-March/026053.html
