Hi,
A little later than usual, here's OpenSolaris Weekly News #11. As always
feedback, or content [from the missing represented communities] welcome.
Glynn
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Derek Cicero announced [1] that build 38 of Solaris Express Community Release
was available. Steve Lau posted [2] that build 39 of ON was available.
Linda Bernal posted [3] the April edition of the OpenSolaris Community
newsletter.
1.
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-May/000127.html
2.
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2006-May/000133.html
3. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/program-team/2006-May/000202.html
Stephen Hahn posted [4] an example of an outline of an organization's bylaws
for discussion. Ben Rockwood followed up [5] with some investigations of other
bylaws from different organizations. Ben posted [6] some ideas of how the
project
might structure itself in terms of membership, adapting some ideas from the
OpenOffice.org model. Roy Fielding noted [7] that we should be careful about the
threshold of an 'observer', with regard to voting rights as may invariably
mis-guide the community. Stephen Hahn posted [8] with some thoughts about
possible
thresholds for community contributions. Ben created [9] a wiki page for people
to collaborate on governance discussions.
4. http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/private/cab-discuss/2006-May/000342.html
5. http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/private/cab-discuss/2006-May/000344.html
6. http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/private/cab-discuss/2006-May/000348.html
7. http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/private/cab-discuss/2006-May/000369.html
8. http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/private/cab-discuss/2006-May/000375.html
9. http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/private/cab-discuss/2006-May/000382.html
Ben Rockwood posted [10] some ideas of how to approach a possible community
reorganization, with a particular focus on promoting core communities rather
than demoting existing ones. Ben also mailed a summary [11] of what questions
need to be asked before any constitution is written. John Plocher replied [12]
noting that constitution needed to be the 'architecture' of the organization,
distinct from 'the design and implementation'. Glynn Foster argued [13] that
the OGB needed to be a non-technical body responsible to sustain the success
of the project, with Simon Phipps describing [14] it as 'an exception handler'.
Rich Teer responded [15] asking who would be responsible for the strategic
direction of the project. Simon replied [16] saying that Solaris wasn't
dominated
by a single individual or group, and that OpenSolaris should be similar.
10.
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/private/cab-discuss/2006-May/000368.html
11. http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/private/cab-discuss/2006-May/000370.html
12. http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/private/cab-discuss/2006-May/000376.html
13. http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/private/cab-discuss/2006-May/000385.html
14. http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/private/cab-discuss/2006-May/000402.html
15. http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/private/cab-discuss/2006-May/000403.html
16. http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/private/cab-discuss/2006-May/000408.html
Keith Wesolowski posted [17] some ideas of how the companion CD might be
handled,
and what problems we need to be solving.
17. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/companion-discuss/2006-May/000178.html
Damien Carbery announced [18] that build 40 of JDS Vermillion was available.
Laszlo Peter forwarded on [19] a survey from Solaris desktop marketing
encouraging those who had used JDS before to fill it out.
18. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2006-May/000975.html
19. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/2006-May/000995.html
Ben Rockwood posted [20] details of the OpenSolaris Sketchpads [21], a place for
staging documents and todo lists.
20.
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-May/016112.html
21. http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/SketchPad
Bryan Cantrill posted [22] a link to the best Solaris tshirts ever, pointing
out his personal favourite, 'Boys are from LAMP, Men are from MARS' motto.
22. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/dtrace-discuss/2006-May/001533.html
Ben Rockwood asked [23] if there were any plans for an OpenSolaris pod at
JavaOne. Steve Lau replied [24] saying that he'd be helping to man a booth
along with others. Simon Phipps mentioned [25] that he had organized a bloggers
meet up.
23. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-mktg/2006-May/001014.html
24. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-mktg/2006-May/001016.html
25. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-mktg/2006-May/001025.html
Prakash Sangappa posted [26] some details about a new file events mechanism
that he was working on, that would use the current events port framework in
Solaris. John Levon mentioned [27] that desktop search would be a good use
case for designing an API, with Darren Kenny emphasizing [28] that the API
that people needed to write to was most important rather than the bridge
between kernel and user-space.
26. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/perf-discuss/2006-May/000540.html
27. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/perf-discuss/2006-May/000543.html
28. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/perf-discuss/2006-May/000558.html
Rick McNeal proposed [29] a project for iSCSI Target.
29.
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2006-May/016122.html
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