It's been two months since my initial status message, which is
probably a bit too long. Most of the efforts I mentioned in that
update have made progress, so it's worth mentioning their current
status:
1. Elementary project hosting support.
The web site development for simple project hosting is underway.
At present, those enhancements are expected for delivery sometime
in December. (You may have noticed that a number of issues with
the site were recently fixed.) In parallel, we are attempting to
eliminate some of the manual steps in community and project
creation.
2. Source code management (SCM), first phase.
The first phase of source code management involves adding
Subversion hosting for individual projects and for the ON
consolidation to publish ongoing changes in a read-only
Subversion repository. Prototyping for the former has begun, but
is dependent on the elementary project hosting work.
For ON, Stephen Lau has been experimenting with publishing a
"squelched" SCCS history; you can see the result of Chandan
integrating this work in the latest release of the source
browser. For instance, here's a file with some recent revisions
and also the squelched history:
http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/history/on/usr/src/cmd/svc/configd/configd.h
This work, along with some SCCS and TeamWare insights gleaned by
Alan Burlison, is expected to be the basis of any SCM migration
we pursue, as well as for the short term read-only Subversion
publication.
3. Partitioned ON source tree.
The partitioned ON source tree is undergoing internal code
review--internal only due to the encumbered code involved.
Mike Kupfer gave much more detail in a recent blog entry
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/kupfer?entry=on_the_road_to_nightly
As noted in my previous update, a partitioned tree means that
projects can issue public source drops of their development code,
and get proper community development going.
4. ON GCC readiness.
Bug fixes that eliminate GCC warnings have continued to integrate
into the Nevada gate. As a result, we're now able to finish
drafting a cleanliness policy for integrations and making the
tools changes to support them. This policy will be discussed in
the Tools community, once the draft is complete.
Because we've been making progress on those initial items, new
aspects of the program will receive more attention. The two new
areas of focus are discussed below.
5. Governance development.
The development of the governance for the OpenSolaris community
is being led by the CAB. One effort in support of that has been
creating a document articulating the engineering values that go
into OpenSolaris software, as well as a process that contributors
can follow that results in the production of such software. The
most recent draft of the development process is available as HTML
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/onnv/os_dev_process/
or as PDF
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/onnv/os_dev_process/d-devproc-alpha.pdf
If you're subscribed to cab-discuss, you know that drafts of the
charter, which transfers responsibilities for OpenSolaris to the
community from Sun, are being vigorously discussed in that forum.
We're attempting to keep the various stakeholders engaged so that
the charter document can be completed and ratified promptly.
6. SCM, second phase.
The evaluation of a distributed SCM solution will be pursued
directly now. I'll be issuing draft requirements and an initial
candidate list very shortly; this discussion will take place in
the Tools community, although I'll send a notice to
opensolaris-discuss.
In terms of source releases, I thought I should also mention that
libm, the C math library, was released in binary form in the past
month. Cleaning up the source code for release is in progress. And,
as I mentioned in another thread, team members have reviewed the
packaging tools source and are working out whether a two step release
is needed there as well. The Java Desktop System consolidation
successfully published their code last week; other consolidations are
getting close to releasing their trees as well.
As always, please share your concerns; I am happy to receive them
privately or on the list.
- Stephen
--
Stephen Hahn, PhD Solaris Kernel Development, Sun Microsystems
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