Re: [osol-discuss] How to retrieve the sasaddress of scsi devices?

2008-03-26 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
) before continuing. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Fishworks Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-21 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
the philistines. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Fishworks Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-21 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
. Is this argument too subtle? Anyway, it's all I have to say on this: please think carefully about how we're going to define success. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Fishworks Excellent; we can attack in any direction

Re: [osol-discuss] Definition of project/community success

2008-02-21 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
on technology that WORKS now. I don't share your vision, but I'm sure many people do, so I'm glad that you've described it for us. Thank you. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Fishworks Excellent; we can attack in any direction

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Nameclash on svn_77 because Sun is ignoring PSARC discussions

2007-12-14 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
can we please end this thread? -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Let's focus. (2nd Draft)

2007-11-02 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
OpenSolaris Developer Preview, OpenSolaris binary distribution, or any other name implying exclusive endorsement of the OpenSolaris Community. I'm happy with this amendment; I'd played with this language myself but it felt too cumbersome. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Let's focus. (2nd Draft)

2007-11-02 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
, but after the past few days I wouldn't mind spending a day getting work done. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-11-01 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-31 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
, but if we're assigned a power there has to be some way for us to defend it. What form that defense might take is not yet clear, but we're not ignoring the issue and at least one of us agrees that what's happening is not likely in the interests of the OpenSolaris Community. -- Keith M Wesolowski

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-31 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
. [0] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-May/001622.html http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-May/001740.html [1] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-May/001712.html -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks

Re: [osol-discuss] [ogb-discuss] This is not a Solaris helpdesk

2007-08-15 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
for -help was, iirc, to answer questions like Why did my build fail? and Where is the source for foo? As for opensolaris-discuss, I don't really care. Noise from newbies is the least of that list's problems. I always recommend unsubscribing from it but I guess people are masochists. -- Keith M

Re: [osol-discuss] Making OpenSolaris 501(c)(3) (Was Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: [advocacy-discuss] Re: Logo/Mascot for OpenSolaris)

2007-06-27 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
provisions to give them comparable advantages where practical. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

[osol-discuss] Re: Making OpenSolaris 501(c)(3) (Was Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: [advocacy-discuss] Re: Logo/Mascot for OpenSolaris)

2007-06-27 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
, especially if whatever they want to do can't be considered part of the cost of running their own business. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris

Re: OpenSolaris as a seperate entity to Sun (Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: [advocacy-discuss] Re: Logo/Mascot for OpenSolaris)

2007-06-26 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
suppose, kill this thread and go write code ourselves. Maybe that's too radical a way to get work done, though. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction

[osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: [advocacy-discuss] Re: Logo/Mascot for OpenSolaris

2007-06-25 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
. It in this case being a professionally designed logo or cartoon'd mascot. Sounds like something to work out within the Advocacy CG. I'm sorry that we can't help you, but we're just not structured in a way that facilitates this type of activity. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded

Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Changes to Contributor status

2007-06-04 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
for making the choices they made. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-06-04 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
a Group (preferably a relevant one) that wants to create your mailing list. That's really all there is to it. Creating new mail aliases like distro-discuss that squat on the namespace is naughty, though; the name should be a part of the sponsoring Group's namespace. -- Keith M Wesolowski

[osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-06-04 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
isn't, in fact, worth doing? As an OGB member, I don't have the time to do all that, and as someone who wants to just get things done, you surely don't want to wait on a 6-month-long OGB docket. That's why we leave things to the Groups to do pretty much as they please. -- Keith M Wesolowski

Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-06-01 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-06-01 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
, but I don't remember seeing that the constitution and/or process was approved. The Constitution was approved by the Membership in a formal poll in March, and those results were announced widely. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks

Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-31 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
infrastructure for the project would have to be created (or otherwise obtained by) the Group. Why a Group would want to invest that effort just to spite us is beyond me, but as you say, we can't tell them what to do. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-31 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
consolidations ought to be represented in our Constitutional framework, please start a new thread on ogb-discuss and we can start to work through that. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-31 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
this project with process? Sorry, it's just not true. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

[osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-31 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
how things ought to work. That's around the time I'd think it reasonable to start contemplating the whole question of whether your thing should be a reference distribution or not. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack

[osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-30 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
, it's not as bad as that, because this statement does not actually seem to bear on the proposed work itself. The proposal would not suffer by its removal. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-30 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 04:24:40PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Keith M Wesolowski wrote: The process requires that this be sent to one or more community groups for sponsorship consideration - have you sent it to the Distributions and Packaging Group? The Constitution and OGB/2007/001

[osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-30 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 06:57:32PM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2007, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:41:52AM +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: The process requires that this be sent to one or more community groups for sponsorship consideration... I don't

Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-30 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
. The OGB can only hear an appeal when a dispute arises. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-30 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
-discuss/2007-April/000425.html See item (1) on the agenda; it lists the people who approved the policy and the terms under which the approval was made. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-30 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
description of one's project goals is a trivial requirement. Anyone who can't do that can't possibly succeed anyway, so why should anyone invest even 10ns in reading about the project or helping it get hosting? -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks

[osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-30 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
offer much-needed clarity to what has unfortunately become a confusing situation for many. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss

[osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-30 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
. A track record of failure in certain types of projects might lead the OGB to alter some processes later, but direct involvement should not otherwise be needed. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction

Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Community creation

2007-05-11 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
. It will also record the status of the initial list of Core Contributors. From this time onward, the Group has all the privileges and responsibilities defined by the Constitution; it is a peer of preexisting Groups. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks

[osol-discuss] Re: constitutional limitations

2007-03-07 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: constitutional limitations

2007-03-07 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
are not using them alone, since they do not describe who is responsible for making any decision that might reasonably lead to such a conflict. Except, perhaps, a metaconflict such as this one. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we

Re: [cab-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Last Day for Nominations

2007-03-06 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
of resolving these issues and/or the depth of thought given to them by the individuals concerned will be conducive to solutions superior to those the Working Group might have developed. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can

[osol-discuss] Re: Last Day for Nominations

2007-03-06 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
rather than punitive reasons. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: [sfwnv-discuss] netsnmp in /usr/sfw (fwd)

2007-03-05 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
purpose. And it's also a bug in SMA. Please file one at bugs.opensolaris.org. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [cab-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Last Day for Nominations

2007-03-05 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
with Community failure is one of the deeper challenges facing the new OGB. Community leaders are advised to put their houses in order sooner rather than later, and to seek dissolution if adequate leadership cannot be found or a sensible definition of scope cannot be agreed upon. -- Keith M Wesolowski

Re: [cab-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Last Day for Nominations

2007-03-05 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
than not that the Xen Community would not retain that status following a thorough review by the next OGB, so there is little incentive for anyone to defer cleaning this up. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any

Re: [cab-discuss] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Last Day for Nominations

2007-03-05 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
and the rulemaking areas into which the OGB chooses to wade. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: [sfwnv-discuss] Re: [sfwnv] netsnmp in /usr/sfw (fwd)

2007-03-05 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
; my mistake. Normally the 'bounce' function will do the job you want. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! FishWorks Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-14 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
difficult to trust that person/machine, at least you reduce the problem from trusting N entities to trusting 1 (or some small number of cooperating but mutually suspicious individuals). -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-13 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
? -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-12 Thread Keith M. Wesolowski
. There are a lot of tough technical challenges between where we are and where we want to be, and I'd like to see a collaborative effort to get past them. That's why this project exists. If you'd like to help, feel free to join the newly-created companion-discuss mailing list. -- Keith M Wesolowski

[osol-discuss] Project proposal: Nevada Companion Software

2006-04-11 Thread Keith M. Wesolowski
I'd like to propose a project similar to SFW Nevada for the forthcoming opening of the collection previously known as the Solaris Software Companion. This body of software consists of Free and Open Source software not supported by Sun; it installs into /opt/sfw and is delivered with Solaris 10

Re: [osol-discuss] Features found in other OS you'd like to see in Solaris

2006-03-23 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
the regular and familiar Solaris install/upgrade facility. See http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/, about halfway down the page, for a link to SXCR. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction

Re: [osol-discuss] Quagga OpenSolaris project proposal

2006-03-23 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
of integrating into ON (or, specifically, dodging ON code-quality rules). The Companion would not be an appropriate target for any software on which any consolidation may have dependencies. Based on your outline of this project, you should not deliver to the Companion. -- Keith M Wesolowski

Re: autoconf/compiler (in-)compatibilit{-y/-ies} / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Proposal to remove/usr/sfwandits dependencies from the bas

2006-03-23 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
certain ON assumptions rather than ABI or standards conformance. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Is it possible to upgrade SX 3/06?

2006-03-22 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
remotely will be disrupted by the replacement of libraries, etc., causing you to lose your connection and probably leaving the system in an inconsistent state. It's best to BFU only on the console rather than remotely or in an xterm. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded

Re: [osol-discuss] Is it possible to upgrade SX 3/06?

2006-03-22 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
builds. - S10U1 - Advantages: Fully supported, has been through a full QA workup. Disadvantages: can't be used to build OpenSolaris source, doesn't contain ZFS at all. - Other OpenSolaris-based distributions: Consult vendors for available features and support options. -- Keith M Wesolowski

Re: [osol-discuss] Build just the 32bit parts of kernel and tools - possible?

2006-03-21 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
a faster build machine than spending the time it will take to make this work well. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: -xstrconst patch / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Footprint: Compiling kernel+tools with -xstrconst -xbuiltin=%all

2006-03-20 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
, 't') *p2 = 'u'; Yes, there are a number of standard library and system functions which could or should have their return types const-qualified but don't. Historical and conformance reasons, of course, but it makes -Wwrite-strings and similar options rather useless. -- Keith M Wesolowski

Re: [osol-discuss] Changing the {sh, ksh}-shells used to build ON...

2006-03-20 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 04:14:41AM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote: sub-zones (e.g. zones within zones)) and AFAIK Sun Studio/Forte/Workshop needs to be installed in each zone seperately). Not true at all. You can access it via NFS, or you can use a lofs mount from the global zone. -- Keith M

Re: [osol-discuss] Footprint: Compiling kernel+tools with -xstrconst -xbuiltin=%all

2006-03-18 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 09:29:35AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't gcc -fwritable-strings work? Yes, in gcc 3. However it issues a warning about deprecation, and in gcc 4 the option is gone entirely. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team

Re: [osol-discuss] Community proposal: solaris-internals

2006-03-18 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
to do, and what happens when those leaders are unresponsive to the needs and desires of their communities are important topics for discussion in the context of the Constitution. Your input would be welcome on cab-discuss. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team

Re: -xstrconst patch / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Footprint: Compiling kernel+tools with -xstrconst -xbuiltin=%all

2006-03-18 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
(there are over 500 of them) to see where we've already found bugs of this type. I believe the printing system (cmd/lp) in particular is actually using -fwritable-strings in a few places still, so it would definitely break with -xstrconst. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris

Re: -xstrconst patch / was: Re: [osol-discuss] Footprint: Compiling kernel+tools with -xstrconst -xbuiltin=%all

2006-03-18 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
before you have reached. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Footprint: Compiling kernel+tools with -xstrconst -xbuiltin=%all

2006-03-17 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
functions can be replaced with their builtins for a win, but on the whole, inlining large functions turns out to be a loss. The wasted I-cache far exceeds the gain from call overhead. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack

Re: [osol-discuss] Footprint: Compiling kernel+tools with -xstrconst -xbuiltin=%all

2006-03-17 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
. Unfortunately there's no -fno-builtin -fbuiltin-function. See the gcc texinfo documentation, the section on C Dialect Options. Note that there are literally hundreds of these functions, many of which are quite complex and almost certainly too fat to inline, at least in the kernel. -- Keith M Wesolowski

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Project proposal - Argentix

2006-03-13 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
the specific problems you observe. Incorrect blanket assumptions like GNU software + OpenSolaris is 'unstable' may mislead others and do not help to resolve the actual bugs. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any

Re: [osol-discuss] Driver Porting Question

2006-03-09 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
- saying it's their problem is leaving them out in the cold. We're not the ones saying it's their problem. It's the law that makes licensees solely responsible for compliance. If you want a more open-source-developer friendly legal system, write your Congressman or equivalent. -- Keith M

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Code gates

2006-03-07 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
label. :-) -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Can we consider ZFS to be production ready now ?

2006-03-07 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
purpose installation utility for administrators or end users; it is for ON developers. If you're not testing modified or bleeding-edge ON bits on the machine (and clearly you're not if you want something that will Just Work for a year), you should not be using BFU on it. -- Keith M Wesolowski

Re: [osol-discuss] Building the kernel with Studio 11 supported?

2006-03-06 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
in ON code. We found many instances like this when porting to gcc. If you think you've found such a bug, please file it! It's much better to fix it now than to find it later after distributors have shipped broken bits to their customers. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Building the kernel with Studio 11 supported?

2006-03-06 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
of Studio 10. If the license does not work for you, don't use the product. Statements to others that it is not free of charge are misleading and counterproductive. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Building the kernel with Studio 11 supported?

2006-03-06 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
in ON by the end of this month. I do not guarantee that the resulting bits will actually work, but right now they seem fairly reliable, and have passed numerous test suites in the past. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack

Re: [request-sponsor] Re: [osol-discuss] Contributing Code

2006-03-06 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
to optionally mark your bugs Fix Available as soon as you putback. The gatekeepers mark them Fix Delivered when the build is closed. So if the first part of that became mandatory, confusion over open bugs would be substantially reduced. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris libusb

2006-03-02 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
within a few weeks. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Bellinix Distro for Linux Format Magazine promotion

2006-03-02 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
-purpose end user installation utility, and that's been made painfully clear in the documentation. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] What is the relationship between OpenSolaris and SolarisExpress/community?

2006-02-17 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
-newsletter/ (sic) [2] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/communities/participation/ -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCR b30

2006-02-14 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
solution' and has been proven to work reliably. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCR b30

2006-02-14 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
it on the grounds that it's needlessly confusing to people unfamiliar with the state of OpenSolaris-based distributions. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction

Re: [osol-discuss] SXCR b30

2006-02-14 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
for release under a suitable license anyway. I'm afraid this sounds like a non-starter to me. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: ksh93 integration project

2006-02-08 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
OpenSolaris, as these dependencies must be removed to facilitate compatible open source distributions. If you amend your proposal to that effect, I will second it. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction

Re: [osol-discuss] Network problem

2006-02-08 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
a networking bug in Solaris, please file a bug at http://bugs.opensolaris.org with enough information to reproduce it, and use the opensolaris-bugs or networking-discuss mailing lists to discuss the problem and its solution. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel

Re: [osol-discuss] Proposal: ksh93 integration project

2006-02-08 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
created. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Project proposal: (/usr/)sfw Nevada

2006-02-01 Thread Keith M. Wesolowski
The SFW consolidation delivers a variety of third-party open source software to Solaris, such as the Apache HTTP server, Samba, and libusb. This consolidation delivers its content into /usr/sfw as an integral part of the Solaris OS, and should not be confused with the Freeware Companion CD/DVD.

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal: (/usr/)sfw Nevada

2006-02-01 Thread Keith M. Wesolowski
model. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Community proposal: Packaged Software

2006-02-01 Thread Keith M. Wesolowski
This proposed community would provide long-term guidance to teams managing releases of the SFW consolidation and projects derived from them, and to project teams working to release and improve the Companion DVD and similar distributions of third-party open source software for OpenSolaris-based

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-17 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
and separate piece of work; Sunfreeware is Sunfreeware, and the companion CD will be opened to development with Steve acting as gatekeeper. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris Companion community development

2005-08-17 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
the same source base, but that's not yet possible for the CCD, so Dennis and Steve would do themselves and their user base a disservice by disbanding their efforts before the CCD effort is viable and can meet their needs. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Laptop community.

2005-08-10 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:40:20PM -0400, Bruce Riddle wrote: Well I can tell you wee need a way of asking what processor we have. Have you tried psrinfo -pv? On AMD chips I can see things like 'Athlon64 3000+' or 'Opteron(tm) Processor 850' as well as model, stepping, and clock. -- Keith M

Re: [osol-discuss] Laptop community.

2005-08-09 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
], SPARC hardware information, and other hardware-specific content. [0] Especially since many of the areas you mention also apply to desktops, like ACPI and audio. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: Some impressions (ksh related)

2005-08-04 Thread Keith M. Wesolowski
Eric wites: As time progresses OpenSolaris will run ahead of the music, and introduce incomaptibilites with Solaris. That's This is not the plan and is not our announced intent... Do you mean it's not our (Sun's) intent to also help cultivate new, innovative ways to use (the

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: Solaris vs. Linux

2005-08-02 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
) and development process tools (project support, change submission and tracking, review tracking, RTItool). -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction

Re: [osol-discuss] zfs and acl, resource controls

2005-08-01 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
can express opinions, but the decision to make Solaris open source has already been made at the highest level. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: How would the ARC process look at this discussion of KSH 88-vs-93?

2005-07-28 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
. That's not the plan nor the intent. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: wifi (was open source process)

2005-07-28 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
) is that it makes maintaining open source drivers easier too! -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-27 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
. For starters, only ON is part of OpenSolaris right now. Start with http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/faq/general_faq/#source. Joerg's concern is legitimate; the discussions have been around the best way to resolve it. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team

[osol-discuss] Re: ext2fs

2005-07-27 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
. Further discussion of ext2 should go to -rfe. Reply-To set accordingly. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: ext2fs

2005-07-27 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
apologies for the trouble. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: ext2fs

2005-07-27 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
... That's not harmless. You're right; I need to patch these files as the SFW gcc does. Sigh. Thanks for looking into this. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction

[osol-discuss] On ksh and compatibility

2005-07-26 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
details on architecture, and the list of ksh93 incompatibilities for the technical points. Because I'm an irredeemable optimist, I'm setting reply-to to -code in the belief that the replies will be on topic for that list. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-25 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
and would appear in subsequent releases of SchilliX, Solaris, and any other distributions. All this development could be done in the open, like any other project. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction

Re: [osol-discuss] open source process

2005-07-25 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
, and wrong. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Installation of BFU and ON Tools

2005-07-24 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
, and the Developer's Reference for more detailed information on all of this. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Installation of BFU and ON Tools

2005-07-24 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
. It may be intentional, but I see no evidence for it and at first glance I'd agree it's a bug. Why not file it at bugs.opensolaris.org? Something like 'bldenv and nightly should unset LD_RUN_PATH'. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent

[osol-discuss] Re: ata.c

2005-07-22 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
certainly not in 20 either. Beyond that, I don't yet know. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can attack in any direction! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Proposal of new community for Solaris x86 device driver

2005-07-22 Thread Keith M Wesolowski
should make it pretty obvious. See also http://opensolaris.org/os/about/no_source/ which won't answer your question at all but will help if you have the same question about other missing stuff. -- Keith M Wesolowski Sir, we're surrounded! Solaris Kernel Team Excellent; we can

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