Frank Van Der Linden announced [1] that the Hg/SVN repository access on opensolaris.org had now moved out of beta, having fixed the main issues to come out of the beta testing. Frank believed it now paved the way for fully open development for the project.
1.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-April/000966.html Derek Cicero announced [2] that Solaris Exrpress Community Edition build 62 was going to be delayed, hoping it to be released Friday. Steve Lau announced [3] that build 62 of ON was now available. 2.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-April/000967.html 3.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-April/000974.html Michelle Olson announced [4] that the April update of the docs consolidation was now available, including additions of Network Services and Naming and Directory Services for the System Administration Guide. 4.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-April/000972.html Sujay Patil announced [5] that an initial port of GNU Parted had been completed, although it should still be considered beta code. This port included the basic functionality of editing fdisk partitions on Solaris. 5.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-bugs/2007-April/000956.html Eric Boutilier mailed [6] with a link to a set of build recipes he had published, using data from various projects like Blastwave, CCD, pkgbuild for a total of 410 F/OSS components. 6.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/companion-discuss/2007-April/000497.html Alan Coopersmith mailed [7] a status update on replacing the X client libraries and applications with the X.Org equivalents, along with a consolidation update for build 63 [8]. 7.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2007-April/005786.html 8.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/2007-April/001130.html Glynn Foster announced [9] the successful list of projects for this year's participation in the Google Summer of Code, with students being added to the new summer of code 2007 planet blog aggregator [10] to track their progress. 9.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/summerofcode/2007-April/000109.html 10.http://planet.opensolaris.org/soc2007/ Laura Ramsey posted [11] an update on what's going on at JavaOne this year, May 8th-11th, including a CommunityOne day, and OpenSolaris representation in the .Org pavilion. 11.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-April/027507.html Glynn Foster posted [12] the latest meeting minutes from the OGB, along with an audio recording, with the election of Rich Teer acting as Chair, Alan Coopersmith acting as Vice-Chair, and Glynn Foster being secretary. Alan posted [13] a proposal for re-bootstrapping the original list of contributors, stating that there were concerns over the inconsistent selection across communities. Roy Fielding argued [14] that if the OGB didn't approve the list then the current OGB is nullified and that the process would be back to step 1. After some discussion, the OGB voted to approve the initial list [15] 12.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-April/000185.html 13.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-April/000143.html 14.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-April/000147.html 15.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-April/000248.html Glynn Foster mailed [16] about the upcoming 2 year anniversary for the project, asking for feedback on the contributor awards and what could be done to make the process smoother than last year. 16.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-April/000242.html
