On Fri, 13 Jun 2008, Eric Saxe wrote:
> Randy Fishel wrote:
> > First, the roles and responsibilities. It has been suggested to follow or
> > mirror the roles the Performance Community has outlined at:
> >
> > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/performance/roles/
> >
> > It is not obvious if this is also presented in other communities, but this
> > is the common understanding of the roles and grants within OpenSolaris as
> > defined by the constitution. I see no reason that we connot either specify
> > this community will follow the same roles and grants outlined by the
> > Performance community, or we can litteraly copy what is there and make it
> > our own.
> >
> This seems reasonable to me. If we do adopt these to start, my preference
> would be to have our own community copy.
OK, I have effectively copied the Performance roles/grants page to
the PM community page (obviously edited for PM context). Please feel
free to comment on it's content separately.
> > The second item is the goals of the community. Other than enhancing the
> > power management experience in OpenSolaris, I don't have a quick answer. My
> > personal goal is to evangelize this community, and there will be evolving
> > specific project goals, but maybe it is sufficient for now to have this as a
> > goal.
> >
> I think this goal is a good one. I suppose "power management experience",
> could mean:
>
> - The administrative/user experience: support for modern administrative
> interfaces for expressing policy objectives, and observability tools/features
> that provide insight into what's happening in/on the system.
> - The developer experience: good observability, debuggability, and
> documentation for expanding/improving OpenSolaris power management and an
> active, supportive open source community (us) :)
> - Others?
>
> Some additional ones that come to mind.
>
> - Improve system power efficiency in the OpenSolaris platform through improved
> support for hardware power management features. These features may be
> presented by individual components such as processors, memory, storage, and
> devices, and/or at the broader system level (e.g. suspend/resume).
>
> - Improve efficiency in the OpenSolaris platform and broader software
> ecosystem. This is a shared goal with the performance community, since
> efficiency and performance can be seen as different sides of the same coin.
> Performance work seeks to improve the amount of work done given a fixed set of
> resources, while efficiency work seeks to reduce the amount of resources
> required to deliver a given level of performance, while trying to minimize the
> amount of power consumed by non-utilized resources.
>
> Thoughts?
I like them all (though I am beginning to feel more like a website
editor). I will crunch what is here, and see if I can add to it based
on my thoughts, and following thoughts of others.
BTW, I have made the FAQ visable (Mark, this means you *are* on the
hook for content), feel free to review what is there and add/suggest
others.
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/pm/
---- Randy
>
> Thanks,
> -Eric
>
