On Wednesday 07 March 2007 04:21 pm, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > On Mar 7, 2007, at 2:54 PM, John Rice wrote: > > We discussed this with Alfred and whilst he had thought of your > > suggestion, wanted to opt for a mozilla dtrace project hosted on > > OpenSolaris and a general Opensolaris one hosted on > > developer.mozilla. This will host the LiveConnect and A11Y work. If > > it becomes clear that some of the work on the mozilla site ought to > > move over to Opesolaris then we could go for the umbrella project. > > For now he wanted to go for the specific mozilla dtrace one. > > > > It's certainly arguable either way, but I'm taking Alfred's lead on > > this as he's running the team hooked into mozilla :) > > Why do you need a project on OpenSolaris if there is already a > project on mozilla.org that is willing to accept dtrace-specific > extensions? Why not just join the Mozilla project and contribute > directly to the upstream source base?
I'll give you a kickstart if you folks want. There's a machine inside the mozilla.org firewall that is not being used for the most part. It's a 2-way Opteron box with about 2gig of memory. If folks are interested, we could probably get access to the machine, and I did have access to mozilla.org once upon a time when we fought to get Solaris packages on the site (albeit in contributed build, at least we got them there). Me and John Weeks did take the machine over and physically put it at the co-lo that hosts mozilla.org. I haven't shelled into mozilla.org in quite some time, but I think my key is still there. If I remember correctly, you have to shell into stage.mozilla.org, and then ssh to the main server that hosts the files, so it's kind of a 2 step process. It's been a long time, but if someone is interested I can dig through email and get a contact and/or contact the mozilla.org folks and see if we can get access to someone that would want to use it. When we took the machine there, it was in coordinating the packages on their site, but our hopes was they would use DTrace and/or libumem to find leaks in mozilla/firefox/thunderbird. That didn't happen as most of their development happens on Linux and/or Windows. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group Advocate of Insourcing at Sun, hire people that care about our company! _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
