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Newsletter Archive: 2008

OpenSolaris Newsletter: Dec 2007 / Jan 2008

Quote of the Month

Noteworthy News:

User Groups

 December

  • The DFWOSUG (Dallas/Ft. Worth OpenSolaris User Group) met in December where Bob Netherton presented on Project Indiana.
  • The LOSUG (London OpenSolaris User Group) got together on December 19th.  James MacFarlene talked on Solaris 8 Migration Assistant and Isamu Shigemori presented Solaris Utilities and Libraries.
  • The MSOSUG (Melbourne OpenSolaris User Group) met on December 19th.  Andre Van Eyssen presented SSSGD for the masses, Atul Vidwansa presented Lustre on ZFS and Nathan Kroenert spoke on Xen of Solaris Nevada/OpenSolaris.
  • The JPOSUG (Japan OpenSolaris User Group) met to for a Solaris Night Seminar in Tokyo. Photos here. There was two new user groups proposed and approved recently -- Serbia and Porto Alegre. Also, OpenSolaris User Groups can order a User Group Kit for their members until Feb 8th. Kits will include OpenSolaris Starter Kits, t-shirts, baseball hits, and bottle openers. All 58 OpenSolaris User Groups are listed here. To start an OpenSolaris User Group, check with the Advocacy Community Group.

 January

  • The BJOSUG (Beijing OpenSolaris User Group) held their first meeting on January 10th, 2008.  Amiram Hayardeny presented on OpenSolaris, Alex Peng spoke on xVM and Robin Guo presented ZFS.
  • The LOSUG (London OpenSolaris User Group) held a meeting on January 16th, 2008.  Phil Kirk presented NWAM, Clearview, Brussels, and Crossbow. 
  • The The MSOSUG (Melbourne OpenSolaris User Group) met on January 16th.  Andre Van Eyssen talked on Jumpstart and Jet and Nathan Kroenert presented Ldoms on Sun4v/OpenSolaris.
  • The SDOSUG (San Diego OpenSolaris User Goup) met on January 16th.  Ryan Scott presented Xen Technology in OpenSolaris.
  • The SVOSUG (Silicon Valley OpenSoalris User Group) met on January 24th.  James Hughes presented a live demonstration and discussion of the Indiana preview 1 installation, configuration and upgrade.
  • The IE-OSUG (Irish OpenSolaris User Group) held their 17th meeting on January 31st to discuss news from December and January.

Conferences

Portals:

Technical Status

 New Components

    • Contributions to consolidation code:
  • There were 6 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris via the request-sponsor program in December and two in January,  bringing the total to 210. 
  • Thanks to Garrett D'Amore, Marc Glisse, Shivakumar GN, Masayuki Murayama, Rishi Nair, Rainer Orth, Peter Tribble for bug fixes.  Also thanks to Sun ON engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback: David Bustos, Suhasini Peddada, Ethan Quach, Petr Sumbera, Brian Utterback. 
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report.

 New Distributions

  • Nexenta Core Platform (NexentaCP) RC2 was available on January 14th.  Download here

New Projects:


December/January's Newsletter Conrtibutor's 
 Contributors: Linda Bernal, Eric Boutilier, Jim Grisanzio
 How to Contribute: The OpenSolaris Newsletter is a community effort, and all community members are welcome to participate. Simply send news items to program-team mail list. The editor will keep track of contributions and list the names of participants in each issue. Also, the editorial team is always looking for feedback on the content and format of the newsletter, so please feel free to suggest changes.

OpenSolaris Newsletter: February 2008

User Groups

Conferences

  • OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Days Hyderabad took place on Feb. 29th. You can download presentations here.
  • OpenSolaris Technical days in Granada and Madrid (Spain). The OpenSolaris Hispano Community has organized The Technical Days with the help of:
    • Foundation for the research and development of OpenSource
    • University of Granada
    • Training Centres (FOC and Escuela de Arte)
    • Accenture
    • Sun Microsystems
    • More info in spanish in the URL: http://es.opensolaris.org/RegistroVT/

Technical Status

 Contributions to consolidation code:

  • There was 9 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in February, bringing the total to 223. Thanks to Avinash Joshi, Juergen Keil, Vidya Lakshmi, Mark Martin, Chad Mynhier, Rishi Nair, for the bug fixes. And thanks to the Sun engineers: Seth Goldberg, Jon Haslam, Mike Kupfer, John Levon, Dave Miner, Liane Praza, Eric Saxe for sponsoring the code through to putback.
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report.

 New Distributions

  • Nexenta team released Nexenta Core Platform 1.0 on February 10th. It can be dowloaded at http://www.nexenta.org

Consolidations

  • The Docs consolidation released source that included; two new books, new HTML for all books, and updated sources. Download here.

New Projects:

10 New Projects Opened in February

December/January's Newsletter Conrtibutor's 
 Linda Bernal, Eric Boutilier, Jim Grisanzio, Shiv

OpenSolaris Newsletter: March 2008

OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards

Go to awards.opensolaris.org to register, declare an entry, and submit your entry. See the updated information on the OpenSolaris Community Innovation Awards Program site. Before you can register for the contest, you must already be registered as an OpenSolaris.org member. Before you can submit an entry, you must already have an SCA number. All types of entries are welcome. Deadline is June 13, 2008. See the web site for more information.

User Groups

  • The Bhimavaram OpenSolaris User Group (BVRM-OSU) met on March 12th. Raju Alluri presented DTrace and Demonstration of OpenSolaris Developer Preview.
  • The London OpenSolaris User Group (LOSUG) met on March 19th. Darren Moffat presented ZFS & lofi Crypto On Disk Encryption OpenSolaris.
  • The Front Range OpenSolaris User Group (FROSUG)held a meeting on March 20th. Topics of discussion included; Home Spun NAS Box Based on OpenSolaris, Microroot, and OpenSolaris.
  • The New York OpenSolaris User's Group (NYCOSUG) met on March 10th. The featured topics were OpenSolaris x86-based virtualization technologies & xVM.
  • The Silicon Valley OpenSolaris (SVOSUG) met on March 27th. John Weeks presented FMAC. You can find more information on FMAC here.
  • The Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group (BOSUG) held a meeting on March 29th. Ananth Shrinivas gave a talk on Image Packaging System (IPS).
  • Porto Alegre OSUG Meeting, March 20th. Pictures and minutes can be found in our website
  • Research Triangle Park, NC OSUG Meeting set for April 1st. This will be our kickoff meeting and Jason Schroeder from Sun will present "Zone Blitz". See our website for presentation details and directions to our meeting place. If you're in the RTP area come join us on April 1st.

Conferences

  • OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Days Sydney, Australia took place on March 6th. Logistics and presentations can be found here.
  • OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Days Johannesburg, South Africa was held on March 11th. Logistics and presentations can be found here.

Technical Status

Contributions to consolidation code:

  • There was 6 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in February, bringing the total to 240. Thanks to Rishi Nair, Jazarine Jamal, Ashok Raj, and Robert Kasten for the bug fixes. And thanks to the Sun engineers: Jerry Jelinek, Kuriakose Kuruvilla, Bill Holler, and Krishnendu Sadhukan for sponsoring the code through to putback.
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report.

Consolidations

  • The Docs consolidation released updated man pages for nv_86 build. They are available from the OpenSolaris download center. This update adds 9 new files. http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/manpages
  • The ON Test consolidation released two test suites on March 24th.
    • Secure by Default (SBD)
    • Key Management Framework (KMF).

New Projects:

10 New Projects Opened in February

  • Driver Detect, Forensic Tools, OpenPegasus CIM Server, Starfish.


December/January's Newsletter Conrtibutor's 
 Contributors: Linda Bernal, Jim Grisanzio

OpenSolaris Newsletter: April 2008

User Groups

Technical Status

Contributions to consolidation code:

  • There was 6 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in February, bringing the total to 240. Thanks to Rishi Nair, Jazarine Jamal, Ashok Raj, and Robert Kasten for the bug fixes. And thanks to the Sun engineers: Jerry Jelinek, Kuriakose Kuruvilla, Bill Holler, and Krishnendu Sadhukan for sponsoring the code through to putback.
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report.

Consolidations

  • The Docs consolidation released updated man pages for nv_86 build. They are available from the OpenSolaris download center. This update adds 9 new files. http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/manpages
  • The ON Test consolidation released two test suites on March 24th.
    • Secure by Default (SBD)
    • Key Management Framework (KMF).

New Projects:

 6 Projects were opened in April

 April 2008 Newsletter Conrtibutor's
 Contributors: Linda Bernal

OpenSolaris Newsletter: May 2008 

User Groups

Conferences

Technical Status

 Contributions to consolidation code:

  • There was 6 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in May, bringing the total to 246. Thanks to Denis Cheng, Mike Gerdts, Juergen Keil, Roland Mainz, and Ashok Raj for the bug fixes. And thanks to the Sun engineers: Sudheer Abdul-Salam, Pete Dennis, Sam Falkner, Mark Johnson, Eric Kustarz, and Dan Mick for sponsoring the code through to putback.
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report.

Consolidations

New Projects:

2 Projects were opened in April:

April 2008 Newsletter Conrtibutor's 
Contributors: Linda Bernal
How to Contribute: The OpenSolaris Newsletter is a community effort, and all community members are welcome to participate. Simply send news items to program-team mail list. The editor will keep track of contributions and list the names of participants in each issue. Also, the editorial team is always looking for feedback on the content and format of the newsletter, so please feel free to suggest changes.

Summer 2008 OpenSolaris Newsletter

Quotes of the Month: 

 July

News:

 June

 July

 August:

User Groups:

 June

 July

 August

  • The Adelaide OpenSolaris User Group met on August 19th.  Alex Sims presented an interactive demonstration about measuring tools for looking at memory, power and CPU use under OpenSolaris.
  • The St. Louis OpenSolaris User Group met on Auguat 19th.  Steven Stallion presented a HOW TO for OpenSolaris Developer.
  • The London OpenSolaris User Group met on August 20th.  James MacFarlane (Sun Microsystems) & Chris Ridd (Active Community Member) presented an overview of the new packaging system in OpenSolaris 2008.05.
  • The Front Range OpenSolaris User Group met on August 21st.  Chris Walsh presented OpenSolaris LiveCD on SPARC and Shawn Emery presented Network Security.
  • The San Francisco OpenSolaris User Group gathered on August 25th.  Topics of discussion included: pdates to our opensolaris.org home page, talked about IPS, Sonbird for x86, Zones upgrade path from SXCE to OpenSolaris

Conferences:

 June

Technical Status: Contributions to consolidation code:

 June

  • There was 3 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in June, bringing the total to 250. Thanks to Juergen Keil and Cyril Plisko for the bug fixes. And thanks to the Sun engineers: Garrett D'Amore, Randy Fishel, and Dan McDonald for sponsoring the code through to putback.

 July

  • There was 14 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in July, bringing the total to 268. Thanks to Juergen Keil, Rich Lowe, Mike Gerdts, Dale Ghent, Palle Lyckegaard, and Abhilash TG for the bug fixes.  And thanks to the Sun engineers: George Wilson, Mark Johnson, Mark Nelson, Seth Goldberg, James McPherson, Sam Falkner, Jonathan Adams, Swathi Devulapalli, and Sumanth Naropanth for sponsoring the code through to putback.

 August

  • There was 17 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in July, bringing the total to 285. Thanks to Derek Morr, Cyril Plisko, Ashok Raj, Borun Fu, Dale Ghent,Rich Lowe, Samir Kumar Mishra, Vinay Simha, Beeresh G, Souvik Das Gupta, Qing He, Ranjit Noronha, Lei Chai, Weikuam Yu, Rishi Nair,  Avinash Joshi, and Vinay Simha BN, for the bug fixes.  And thanks to the Sun engineers: Valerie Anne Bubb, James McPherson, Saurabh Mishra, Jim Dunham, Mark Nelson, John Sonnenschein, Mark Johnson, Rob Gordon, Viswanathan Kannappan, Pavel Filipsensky, and Milan Jurik,  for sponsoring the code through to putback.
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report.

Consolidations

June

  • The  nv_92 man pages were made available on June 26th.  http://dlc.sun.com/osol/man/downloads/current/
  • The Docs consolidation released source on June 8th for:
    • Writing Device Drivers
    • OpenSolaris Development Guide
  • ON Test published source on June 11th for the Storage Driver Test Suite (SDTS)

Distributions
 July

  • MilaX 0.3.1 version for SPARC was available on July 15th.
  • BeleniX 0.7.1 update was releases on July 18th.  Download location.

New Projects:

 June
 5 new projects opened in the month of June.

 July
 4 new projects opened in the month of July.

 August
 3 new projects opened in the month of August.


 Summer 2008 Newsletter Contributor's
 Contributors: Linda Bernal

OpenSolaris Newsletter: September 2008

Overview

This month the OpenSolaris community announced the results of the Community Innovation Awards Program, the OGB voted to start reorganizing and simplifying the governance structure, the community met for the second time in a Town Hall forum, and members of the community gathered at conferences and user groups meetings around the world. All of that and more in the September issue of the OpenSolaris Community Newsletter.

Announcements

  • One Sept, 18th Sun announced the winners of the OpenSolaris(TM) Community Innovation Awards Program, designed to fuel innovation around OpenSolaris. The OpenSolaris program included both a contest and a student grant component and was part of Sun's Open Source Community Innovation Awards Program, a multi-year program running across several open source communities with a $1 Million total prize.
  • The OpenSolaris community participated in hundreds of events around the world to celebrate Software Freedom Day in late September.
  • Follow all the announcements for OpenSolaris on opensolaris-announce (forum here, subscribe here). All community members are welcome to post to opensolaris-announce for events, user group meetings, source/binary releases, etc. The list is moderated for one way traffic only.

OpenSolaris in the Media

  • How the FAA Is Bringing Its Air Traffic Systems into the 21st Century: "Sun's open-source OpenSolaris/ZFS/SunFire server/Thumper storage infrastructure - which features built-in, state-of-the-art virtualization capability - was a key building block on which the FAA IT evaluation group settled. Some of the new software is already being used in the air traffic system; ZFS (Sun's open-source Zettabyte File System) is being used in the FAA's air traffic data center. 'The FAA uses a large quantity of Sun Solaris servers in a variety of configurations to support some of our noncritical business applications,' Andy Isaksen, manager of the Communications Infrastructure Engineering Team for NADIN and architect of the original mainframe system, said. 'ZFS is being used on at least one service within the Air Traffic Organization Enterprise Data Center.'" - eWeek, September 24, 2008

Conferences & User Groups

 User Group Meetings

 Conferences

Projects & Communities

 Projects opened

 Communities

  • The OpenSolaris Web Community was launched in September, to house the various projects related to operations, content, and infrastructure of opensolaris.org.

Infrastructure Status

 OpenSolaris content

  • Content developers working on the OpenSolaris.org Website Project, in conjunction with the OGB (OpenSolaris Governing Board) have updated all of the common pages of the web site, streamlined navigation (removing the splash pages introduced in May) and embarked on a weekly update to the OpenSolaris.org home page to highlight communities, projects, and individuals in the Feature Spot: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/features/
  • Send suggestions for a Feature Spot about your project to the website-discuss mailing list. Refer to http://opensolaris.org/os/project/website/content/web_best_practices.pdf for easy-to-follow best practices when authoring content on your opensolaris.org web pages.

 OpenSolaris Platform Development

  • Webapp: Minor upgrade to the webapp was released. Exploring the long term need to move off Jive entirely for another list-forum solution with the new site.
  • SCM Console: Localization and security work done. Will go out for testing as next step. 
  • Authentication (auth): Updating the application based on the new community structure voted on by the OGB. Completed and released the user facing screens for testing on opensolaris.org. Passed security tests. Localization engineering work done. Globalization community deciding how many languages to translate auth into.
  • xWiki: testing how xwiki handles roles and rights and working on integration issues with auth. Exploring the building of new tools to migrate content from the old site to the new site when the time comes.

 SCM (Source Code Management)

  • SCM team is finishing up some post ON transition work. Three areas that we are focusing on is: tools code review, performance, and granularity. 
  • Mike Kupfer created a Mercurial repository for the ON Developers Reference,using the makefile and XML source from the Documentation community. The URL for the repo is: ssh://anon@opensolaris.org/hg/onnv/devref
  • We are still in the process of creating a new schedule for the ON move to opensolaris.org.  There are a few dependicies listed on the project page here:
    http://opensolaris.org/os/project/scm-migration/  We are in talks with the OpenRTI folks and working out details on how to proceed with open development.  Stay tuned for more details in the month of October.

Distribution Updates

Contributions to Consolidation Code

  • There was 5 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in September, bringing the total to 290. Thanks to Chitra B, Martin Cerveny, Nils Goroll, Palle Lyckegaard, Meera R, and Hans Rosenfeld for the bug fixes. And thanks to the Sun engineers: Seth Goldberg, Mark Johnson, Viswanathan Kannappan, John Sonnenschein, and Joep Vesseur, for sponsoring the code through to putback.
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report.

Governance

OpenSolaris Community Newsletter: A View from the OpenSolaris Infrastructure Engineering Team

Editor: Linda Bernal
 Contributors: Jim Grisanzio, Michelle Olson
 About: The OpenSolaris Community Newsletter is a monthly publication from Sun's OpenSolaris Infrastructure Engineering Team, which is the group that originally created the OpenSolaris project. The content primarily summarizes the team's infrastructure and community development efforts to support the operations of the OpenSolaris project. Additional information can also be drawn from OpenSolaris mailing lists, other Sun teams, the news media, blogs, and various social networks involving OpenSolaris. Contributions can be offered by posting to advocacy-discuss.

OpenSolaris Newsletter: October 2008

Overview

In October, the OpenSolaris community continued to open projects and user groups and take code contributions. New books were published on OpenSolaris in Japan and China, multiple distributions were updated, website content and infrastructure work evolved, and new drafts of the Constitution were published for feedback.

Announcements and News

OpenSolaris in the Media

User Groups

 User Group Meetings

  • New OSUGs approved in October include Szczecin, Poland and Tokyo, Japan. Watch for them to open sometime in November. Also, a new OSUG in Johannesburg, South Africa opened recently. There are currently 73 OpenSolaris User Groups around the world today. Interested in starting one? Go here for help.
  • Members of OpenSolaris user groups discuss issues on list and meet live. Here is a summary of some of the OSUG meetings in October:
  • Check the OSUG table for links to all of the projects and lists.

Conferences

Projects & Communities

 Projects opened

Infrastructure Status

 OpenSolaris Content

  • Studio 12 links were updated in October and instructions were provided for the compiler update.
  • OpenSolaris Development Process document was updated to reflect new thinking on the definition of the OpenSolaris Project.
  • A new Get Help icon was implemented in the upper-right navigation of opensolaris.org. To provide feeback or add content to the Get Help page, send mail to the website-discuss mailing list.
  • The Get the Source page was updated to better explain Nevada and how to clone the gate.
  • The OpenSolaris.org Terms of Use was updated to include a link to the OpenSolaris trademark policy.
  • The home page Feature Spot was updated to highlight the WebStack project, France Distro Meetup, Poland Developer Conference, and DTrace-Chime. See the Feature Spot Archive.
  • The Muskoka Project was updated to include posting instructions.
  • We are always open to additional feedback on the Use Cases list for OpenSolaris.org, but we have general agreement on the top tasks external users want to complete using our site and that their success with the tasks is the measure of the site usability.

 OpenSolaris Platform Development

 SCM (Source Code Management)

  • In the month of October, the SCM team met to start focusing on some goals to help reduce some of the pain points around open development. In the meantime we will be working on on reducing some major dissatisfiers, and getting some quick hits out of the way.

Distribution Updates

  • MilaX 0.3.2 Sparc was available on October 3rd.   Based on b98, added missing virtual drivers - now you can boot MilaX iso in Guest LDom.
  • NexentaCore 2.0 Alpha2 was released on October 11th. Download here:  http://www.nexenta.org/os/DownloadMirrors

Consolidations

  • The Docs consolidation published updates on October 10th for the following books:
    • Writing Device Drivers
    • System Administration Guide: Security Services
    • Solaris Trusted Extensions Administrator's Procedures
    • System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

       You can download here:  http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/docs.

Contributions to Consolidation Code

  • There was 7 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in September, bringing the total to 300. Thanks to Martin Bochnig, Vinay Simha, Beeresh G, Juergen Keil, Bart Van Assche, and Palle Lyckegaard for the bug fixes. And thanks to the Sun engineers: Alan Coopersmith, Chin-Long Shu, Konstantin Ananyev, Dana Myers, Garrett D'Amore, and Dan McDonald for sponsoring the code through to putback.
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report.

Governance

OpenSolaris Community Newsletter: A View from the OpenSolaris Infrastructure Engineering Team
 Editor: Linda Bernal
 Contributors: Jim Grisanzio, Michelle Olson

OpenSolaris Newsletter: Nov/Dec 2008

Overview

The big deal in this November/December issue is the launch of OpenSolaris 2008.11. The distribution, with significant new features and multiple new package repositories, met with positive reviews in the media and an enthusiastic response from the community. Also during this time, the OpenSolaris Governing Board continued to make progress on the draft constitution that will be voted on in the spring, and a new version of the upcoming opensolaris.org portal was released for testing. The content on opensolairs.org continues to evolve with front page updates, but probably the most surprising development this month came from the OpenSolaris User groups - which grew in number by two dozen. There is a new program to promote growth and activity among OSUGs, and the early reactions are promising.

Announcements and News

Most announcements for OpenSolaris can be found on the opensolaris-announce list. However, many other announcements can be found on the lists and forums of Communities, Projects, and User Groups.

OpenSolaris in the Media

User Groups

  • Activity in the OpenSolaris User Group community has increased significantly in the last few months with the addition of two dozen new groups, which makes it difficult to list all the meetings here in this newsletter. Currently, there are 98 OSUGs, so for details about OSUG meetings go to their project spaces and mailing lists.
  • There is a new program to help support OSUGs with t-shirts and meeting materials. See Teresa Giacomini's announcement here. Also, there is a new landing page for the OSUGs on the site - http://opensolaris.org/os/usergroups - complete with a Google map updated by Michelle Olson and Nicolas Dorfsman.

Conferences

  • The OpenSolaris community participated in Sun's Tech Days conference in Tokyo in early December. The event drew more than 2,000 people from Japan. See a write-up and photos here. Throughout November and December, the Tech Days tour also stopped at Taipei, Taiwan; Guangzhou, China; and Beijing, China. See the Tech Days schedule for upcoming events.
  • OpenSolaris was also at FOSS.IN in Bangalore in November. 

Projects & Communities

 There was 3 projects opened in November:

 There was 1 project opened in December:

Infrastructure Status

OpenSolaris Content

November

  • Feature spots for Chime, EasyTools, Milax, Time Slider and related /os/features/ page changes
  • Navigation tool bar, user group, package, and bug filing updates with new landing pages for each
  • Updates to Profiles, new landing page with complete instructions for account management
  • Sun-sponsored: Partner program sidebar, Open Storage sidebar, new opensolaris.com icon
  • Updated subsites ribbon with Test and Mail and styling
  • New docs landing page
  • Updated front page running text to make less dense, link to About, request_sponsor, Code Swarms, and new Welcome message.
  • Created and reviewed with all internal and external stakeholders, feature spot for 2008.11 launch, updated About page, Downloads page, and Indiana project page links, text, and graphics for 2008.11.
  • Updated dev_proc with new vision for OpenSolaris as a product.
  • Made all references to OpenSolaris 2008.05 to generic reference to OpenSolaris OS, except on About, Downloads and Indiana projects.

December

  • 2008.11 feature spot, Indiana project page updates and screenshots
  • Removed top ribbon navigation, updated side nav to Quick Links, Subsites, and General
  • Suggested new Website community Contributor nominations
  • Updated User Group map for new groups and fixes to links
  • Posted Information Architecture draft for new site and mail thread to discuss.
  • Responded to mail about existing landing pages for Downloads, Communities, Projects, and began assessment of possible solutions.
  • Combined Help, Get Help and Contacts pages into one.
  • Began testing wiki infrastructure and sent feedback to list.
  • Updated News page and Announcements section

OpenSolaris Platform Development

  • The preview version of the new opensolaris.org portal and authentication system became available on Dec 11th to test xWiki and user management issues. Please post feedback to website-discuss. Content migrations will begin early next year and are expected to take several months as we move to the new site.
  • The new opensolaris.org will also implement the new community organization outlined by the OpenSolaris Governing Board (see update below).
  • The new SCM console went live on Nov 28th. The updated web application better enables developers to interact with and configure various source repositories on opensolaris.org. The system is also designed to scale with the needs of the community as we implement open develop programs.

Open Development

 B.O.O. (bugs.opensolaris.org)

  • OpenSolaris team will take ownership of bugs.opensolaris.org. Right now we are focusing on moving the data and application to our infrastructure. Our goal is to have it all moved over by the end of December. After the transition we will be looking at fixing some minor bugs to enhance user experience. 

Distribution Updates

Consolidations

November

  • The Man Page consolidation accumulated source for additional mane pages over the last five months.
  • Solaris QE released source on Nov. 20 for Megacli and Virt-Install test suites.
  • Solaris RPE released source on Nov. 20 for the NetCat test suite.

December

  • The Man Page Consolidation released 852 new man pages and includes 5569 files on Dec. 11.
  • The Docs Consolidation posted new download on Dec. 3rd which included changes to:
    • System Administration Guide: Basic Administration (new x86 fast reboot features)
    • System Administration Guide: Solaris Printing (OpenSolaris print manager and miscellaneous fixes)
    • Solaris Modular Debugger Guide

Contributions to Consolidation Code

  • There was 8 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in November and 10 in December, bringing the total to 319. Thanks to Chad Mynhier, Nils Goroll, Roland Mainz, Avinash Joshi, Brian Gupta, Mike Gerdts, Robert Kasten, Eric Trauschke, and Jason King for the bug fixes. And thanks to the Sun engineers: Jon Haslam, Larry Liu, Roger Faulkner, John Sonnenschein, Rafael Vanoni, Petr Sumbera, Bill Hollwer, Vladimir Kotal, for sponsoring the code through to putback.

Governance

 OpenSolaris Community Newsletter: A View from the OpenSolaris Developer Collaboration Team
 Editor: Linda Bernal
 Contributors: Jim Grisanzio, Michelle Olson

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