Hi, Here's OpenSolaris Weekly News #5. As always feedback, or content [from the missing represented communities] welcome.
Glynn == Bernd Schemmer asked [1] if there were any Perl interfaces to SMF. Stephen Hahn replied [2] that it would be a good OpenSolaris project, but mentioned also that it could be possible to use the Visual Panels Java SMF classes with either Jython or Groovy. 1. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/smf-discuss/2006-April/000483.html 2. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/smf-discuss/2006-April/000488.html Christine Tran asked [3] whether it was possible to define error states for a service instance. David Bustos replied [4] saying that it would soon be possible with smf_method(5) which allowed a service to deliver a monitor that SMF could use to assess the heath of the service. 3. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/smf-discuss/2006-April/000492.html 4. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/smf-discuss/2006-April/000496.html Alan Coopersmith mailed [5] with a list of possible projects regarding the newly released X Server consolidation. 5. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/xwin-discuss/2006-April/000179.html Stephen Hahn posted [6] the DSCM selection draft, noting that a recommendation to adopt Mercurial [7] as the distributed source code management solution for OpenSolaris. 6. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-discuss/2006-April/000366.html 7. http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi Linda Bernal mailed [8] with a link to the latest OpenSolaris community newsletter for March. 8. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-April/015004.html Max announced [9] that he was holding a Solaris Internals course in San Jose, between 26 and 30th June for anyone interested in kernel source code, mdb, dtrace and other tools. 9. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-April/015029.html Baban Kenkre proposed [10] project Winchester, for schema mapping and Active Directory interoperability. Anand Sekhar proposed [11] project Duckwater, simplified name services management. Nicholas Williams proposed [12] project RENO, aiming to revamp Solaris login infrastructure specifically to provide a link between network authentication frameworks and PAM. 10. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-April/015046.html 11. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-April/015063.html 12. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-April/015087.html Stephen Lau announced [13] that the ON sources for build 37 were now available. He also announced [14] the nightly drop 20060404 included putbacks freeing the ata driver along with a bunch of SPARC drivers, and the demise of DMI. It also included a flagday to support building cleanly with gcc [15] 13. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-April/000100.html 14. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-April/000104.html 15. http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/gcc/flagday/ Moinak Ghosh announced [16] that BelaniX 4.2 was now available, which was mostly a bug fix release. Joerg Schilling announced [17] that SchilliX 0.5.2 was available, which now included an SVr4 package database so that Blastwave [18] packages could now be installed. 16. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-April/015117.html 17. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-April/015121.html 18. http://www.blastwave.org/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
