Hi! ----
Would be there some interest to run a small experiment and create a "hacking festival" (short: "hackfest") for OpenSolaris ? The goal is a bit different than a normal "hackfest" - the idea in this case is to get as _many_ putbacks (e.g. getting the maximum throughput+quality by having all neccesary people for the putbacks in _one_ location for four days with enougth coffee, whiteboards, pizza and computers) into OS/Net and SWFNV done as possible - which means we need: 1. Hackers/developers/engineers (up to 30 people maximum, canidate projects must have at least a raw prototype codebase which a) works (more or less) and b) fully passes a nightly build) 2. putback sponsors (from Sun's side) 3. Code reviewers (usually recruited from either [1], [2] or via IRC) 4. People to do the RTI 5. A copy of the OS/Net + SFWNV gates which is constantly being tested (e.g. putbacks first go into the matching SFWNV+OS/Net "hackfest" gate and once the summit is over the gate is tested again and then synced with the main gate) 6. Two or more lawyers (if any license issues need to be checked+approved) 7. Fast development and build machines. The basic layout should look like this: - Development machines/workstations (with no root rights for the owners to keep them in a "stable" state (hacking/testing experiments can be done on the "test" machines below (all machines share NFS home dirs+work dirs so there shouldn't be a problem))) - Test machines for doing BFU&co. - Gate machines (where the "hackfest" gates are located) - NFS&6o. servers (for the development machines) which provide home dirs, project dirs, HG+Subversion repositories, email services, NTP, FTP, Jumpstart etc. - Tinderbox machines which constantly build+test the "hackfest" gates to test whether all putbacks are working Comments/suggestions/etc. welcome... ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 3992797 (;O/ \/ \O;)
