Hi, Here's OpenSolaris Weekly News #3. As always feedback, or content [from the missing represented communities] welcome.
Glynn == Ben Rockwood called [1] for discussion that OpenSolaris could be reorganized into a small number of high-level communities so that a picture could be formed of how the organization might be structured, to help to determine how it should be governed. Stephen Hahn proposed [2] a community demotion process based on a 'heath evaluation'. 1. http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/private/cab-discuss/2006-March/000304.html 2. http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/private/cab-discuss/2006-March/000308.html Damian Carbery announced [3] that the latest set of unstable GNOME 2.13 packages were available. Dermot McCluskey followed this up [4] with another mirror for these packages, although the build sources aren't yet currently available. 3. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2006-March/000486.html 4. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2006-March/000512.html Michelle Olson announced [5] a new document entitled 'Introduction to Operating Systems - A Hands-On Approach Using the OpenSolaris Project', geared towards professors teaching operating system courses at junior/senior undergraduate level. 5. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/docs-discuss/2006-March/000273.html Eric Lowe asked [6] what the plan/roadmap for releasing a complete tool chain for the documentation community, like that of BSD [7]. Michelle Olson replied [8] suggesting that it would be good to work on a model like this, and mentioned that everyone was agreeing that that Docbook/XML would be a good choice for a documentation format. Eric followed up [9] to encourage that a set of community goals should be established for the future. 6. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/docs-discuss/2006-March/000276.html 7. http://people.freebsd.org/~nik/sgmlxml.gif 8. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/docs-discuss/2006-March/000282.html 9. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/docs-discuss/2006-March/000285.html Artem Kachitchkine proposed [10] a new project, Tamarack, for providing removable media enhancements to Solaris. Sam Falkner also proposed [11] a new project, nfs4trace, a DTrace provider for NFSv4. Darren Moffat proposed [12] a new projet for loficc, to merge support for compression and cryptography support to lofi. Gerard Fernando forwarded a request [13] for starting a new project on Streaming Server, of which the Sun StorEdge Media Central Streaming Server will be the basis of. Sebastien Roy proposed [14] the Clearview project, an effort to unify the set of features implemented by various network interfaces on Solaris. 10. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-March/013816.html 11. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-March/013846.html 12. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-March/013937.html 13. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-March/013993.html 14. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/networking-discuss/2006-March/000900.html Jim Grisanzio asked [15] for feedback from those people committing code for how process for participation could change to make things easier. Bill Rushmore replied [16] saying that more bug enhancements were necessary for success, including the need to mark more bugs with 'oss-bite-size'. Danek Duvall followed up later [17] with some details of what checks were run on a typical putback using Teamware. 15. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-March/013834.html 16. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-March/013836.html 17. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-March/013969.html Dave Miner reported [18] that the source for packaging tools was now available. Karyn Ritter announced [19] that Solaris Express Community Release build 34 was now available. Steve Lau reported [20] that build 35 of ON was available. 18. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-March/000069.html 19. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-March/000067.html 20. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-March/000070.html Glynn Foster mailed [21] asking people to submit their location information to the OpenSolaris worldwide map [22]. This would complement other Frappr initiatives [23]. 21. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-March/013851.html 22. http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolaris_Worldwide 23. http://www.frappr.com/opensolaris Yann Poupet asked [24] whether any of the OpenSolaris code had been checked or audited with tools like Coverity [25]. Alan Coopersmith replied [26] that much of the source had been scanned in the past. Stephen Hahn mentioned [27] that they had been in touch with Coverity to pursue a scan of OpenSolaris code. 24. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-March/013985.html 25. http://scan.coverity.com/ 26. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-March/013992.html 27. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-March/014006.html Glynn Foster mailed [28] saying that streams of the recent FOSDEM [29] conference were now available, that included Jon Haslam's DTrace talk and tutorial. Tom Erickson proposed [30] a new project, Chime, a graphical tool for visualizing DTrace aggregations. 28. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-March/014020.html 29. http://www.fosdem.org 30. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-March/014060.html Wez Furlong announced [31] that a port of libumem [32] to run on Linux and Windows was now available. 31. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-code/2006-March/000710.html 32. http://sourceforge.net/projects/umem/ Teresa Giacomini asked [33] for suggestions of what conferences that Sun engineers and community members should be attending this year. 33. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-March/014064.html Peter Memishian asked for feedback [34] on some design documents for extending dladm support for WiFi based on a current proposal [35]. 34. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/laptop-discuss/2006-March/000856.html 35. http://opensolaris.org/os/community/networking/wifi-dladm-design.pdf _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
