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Newsletter Archive: 2009

OpenSolaris Newsletter: January 2009

Overview

The OpenSolaris community starts the new year getting ready for the March 2009 elections, which will bring a new governing board and constitution. As the current board has been working on reorganizing the community, the OpenSolaris Developer Collaboration Team has also been updating the opensolaris.org portal to reflect the new community structure. Plans to transition to the new opensolairs.org have begun. Also, some of the core developers on the OpenSolaris project have released a new book on the technology, which marks the fourth book for the project. Many other things are going on in the community, and we highlight in this newsletter as much as we can find. If you'd like to help contribute to the newsletter, give us a shout on advocacy-discuss.

Announcements and News

Many of the announcements for the OpenSolaris project can be found on the opensolaris-announce list. However, other announcements can be found on the lists and forums of individual Communities, Projects, and User Groups. To see absolutely everything, just dig into all the group lists. All community members are welcome to post announcements to opensolaris-announce. The list is moderated for one way traffic, so expect a slight delay after posting. We do not edit announcements if they are relevant to the community. Some recent announcements:

OpenSolaris in the Media

Updates on OpenSolaris community press coverage. opensolaris.org also has a collection of several years of press coverage since the project began. Some highlights from January:

Conferences

Updates from OpenSolaris conferences around the world.

Distribution Updates

Updates from the distributions based on OpenSolaris technology. To download all the distributions based on OpenSolaris, go to the downloads page on opensolaris.org.

Projects, Communities, and User Groups

Updates from the projects and communities on opensolaris.org. To have your new or existing project highlighted here, just ping Jim Grisanzio or post to advocacy-discuss with "newsletter" in the subject field.

Projects

  • Multiple projects have been proposed and opened on opensolaris.org in January, bringing the total to over 200. For this issue we highlight two new projects opening soon from Rafael Vanoni: Tickless and LatencyTop.
    • Tickless Kernel Architecture: This project seeks to re implement the services provided by the system clock to an event driven model, eliminating the system's need to wake up 100 times a second to perform arbitrary work. Instead, we will allow the processor to fall into deeper energy saving states only to be awaken when events are due. This enhancement will also contribute to scenarios where the OS is part of a virtualized system, reducing the need to switch execution between hosts only to perform unnecessary accounting. The project is spinning off from the Tesla Project.
    • LatencyTOP: A a tool developed by Intel to help developers identify sources of latency in their code. The tool was originally developed for Linux and is currently being rewritten for OpenSolaris. From www.latencytop.org: "LatencyTOP focuses on the cases where the applications want to run and execute useful code, but there's some resource that's not currently available (and the kernel then blocks the process). This is done both on a system level and on a per process level, so that you can see what's happening to the system, and which process is suffering and/or causing the delays."
  • For background on setting up new projects, go to the projects portal, the project set up page, and the project lead reference page. As a reminder, we will be moving to a new project creation process after the new OpenSolaris Constitution is approved in the upcoming March 2009 elections. Here is more information about the proposed group creation process. Send feedback to ogb-discuss.

OpenSolaris User Groups (OSUGs)

  • The OpenSolaris User Groups continue to grow in number. Currently, there are 106 OSUGs on opensolairs.org.
  • The community maintains a Google map with all the OSUGs tagged around the world. Also, here is a list of OSUG leaders, projects, and lists.
  • The OSUG Starter Kit Program is in full swing now, with approximately 70 kits being shipped in the last two months. The kits are split into two shipments - the first containing books, CDs, laptop stickers, and a $100 (US) Visa gift card, and the second containing t-shirts. The shirts should start shipping in mid February.

Infrastructure Status

Updates from the opensolaris.org content community as well as the opensolaris.org portal development team, which includes xWiki, authentication, BOO (bugs.opensolaris.org), SCM Console, and various open development projects.

opensolaris.org Content

  • Feature spots for Starfish Project, Crossbow, SW-Porters, Testing CG and related /os/features/ page changes. See all the past opensolaris.org front page features here.
  • Announcements section updates for b105 and 106.
  • Updated <div class=ad> to 'sidebar'.
  • Updated /os/chat page with pm-dev channel link and description.
  • Outreach for bible, power management, and storage summit feature spots.
  • Updated OSUG map and started migration back to Nicolas' original map.
  • Updated Get More Packages page title and content to include info about access.
  • Tested migration of common landing pages to hub.opensolaris.org.
  • Navigation tool bar review for Free CD icon, updates to Sun-sponsored links and Downloads page for free CD.

opensolaris.org Website Portal Development

  • A new version of the authentication application was posted with bug fixes and additional features.
  • See hub.opensolaris.org to test xWiki integrated with the new auth app.
  • BOO updates are in the works. Watch for announcements on website-discuss about future enhancements to the bug database.

Code Consolidations

Updates concerning publication, contributions, and repositories. This month we focus on contributions.

  • There were 16 code contributions integrated into OpenSolaris via the sponsor program in January, bringing the total to 355.
  • Thanks to Nils Goroll, Mike Gerdts, Juergen Keil, Ashwin Bhat, Rich Lowe, and Chad Myhier for ON contributions. Thanks to Kan Liang and Martin Bochnig for X contributions. Also thanks to Sun engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback: Cathy Zhou, Sumanth Naropanth, Seth Goldberg, Jayakara Kini, John Sonnenschein, Jon Haslam, and Alan Coopersmith.
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report. Post mail to request-sponsor to engage the sponsor program participants and review background material on contributing code to consolidations here.
  • Additional contributions include the following: Docs contributor James Cornell wrote a new procedure for getting MP3s to play on OpenSolaris and Rainer Heilke posted a new docs PDF tarball.

Governance

Updates from the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB). This month the community gets ready for the March 2009 election.

  • Alan Coopersmith published the schedule for the March 2009 OpenSolaris elections. There are deadlines in February, so if you want to run for the board or even vote in the election, please read Alan's note carefully to make sure you are eligible to participate.
  • Many communities are updating their voting rolls (here, here, here, here) in an effort to get ready for the March election. It's important to know if your Core Contributor grant came as a result of the original OpenSolaris community bootstrap two years ago. You can confirm this by searching for your name at http://poll.opensolaris.org/ under the "Grants" tab. If this is the case, your CC grant will expire in February, so if you'd like to continue to have voting status, please renew your grant with your community facilitator.
  • The OGB will place a new constitution on the ballot this year, which is an effort to simplify the community structure. Go here to read that document. Offer feedback to ogb-discuss.

OpenSolaris Community Newsletter: A View from the OpenSolaris Developer Collaboration Team
Editor: Jim Grisanzio
Contributors: Jim Grisanzio, Bonnie Corwin, Michelle Olson, Rafael Vanoni, Alan McClellan, Nick Solter, Ikuko Kagaya
About: The OpenSolaris Community Newsletter is a monthly publication from Sun's OpenSolaris Developer Collaboration 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: February 2009

Overview

In February the OpenSolaris community finalized preparations for the annual election, which will bring in a new OpenSolaris Governing Board and potentially a new Constitution in an effort to reorganize and simplify community operations. The community also released new versions of several distributions, opened new projects, integrated new code contributions, and participated at multiple events around the world.

Call for Contributions

We are always looking for contributions to the OpenSolaris Community Newsletter. Just ping advocacy-discuss with your updates on projects, user groups, communities, conferences, etc. If you offer some content, we'll certainly list you as a contributor. 

Quote of the Month

"We hope we can contribute to growth of OpenSolaris in Japan and to the continued evolution of OpenSolaris around the world." - Kotaro-san, Leader, Project Jaris

News & Announcements

Announcements for the OpenSolaris project on opensolairs.org can be found on the opensolaris-announce list. However, other announcements can be found on the lists and forums across individual Communities, Projects, and User Groups and even on other websites off of opensolaris.org. To see absolutely everything, you have to dig into all the group lists since there is no one place to find everything. We encourage all community members to post announcements to opensolaris-announce so we can have a central repository of major announcements.

OpenSolaris in the Media

Updates on OpenSolaris community press coverage. Some highlights from February:

Conferences

Updates from OpenSolaris conferences around the world.

Distribution Updates

Updates from the distributions based on OpenSolaris technology. To download all the distributions based on OpenSolaris, go to the downloads page on opensolaris.org.

Projects, Communities, and User Groups

Updates from the Projects, Communities, and User Groups on opensolaris.org as well as OpenSolaris projects beyond opensolaris.org. To have your new or existing project highlighted here, write an update and ping Jim Grisanzio or post to advocacy-discuss with "newsletter" in the subject field.

Projects & Communities

OpenSolaris User Groups (OSUGs)

  • The OpenSolaris User Groups continue to grow in number. Currently, there are 112 OSUGs listed on opensolairs.org.
  • New OSUGs in the last couple of months include Vancouver, Baltimore/Washington, Southern Connecticut, NEA Argentina, Greece, Norway, Delaware, Scottish, Manchester, Osnabruck Germany, Jinan China, Peru, and Minas Gerais Brazil.
  • The Czech OSUG ran a full-day training event in Brno in early March for new users of OpenSolaris 2008.11. 
  • David Stewart posted new technical videos to the Intel OpenSolaris page on YouTube. New presentations include ZFS, PowerTop, and Xeon.

Infrastructure Status

Updates from the opensolaris.org content community as well as the opensolaris.org portal development team, which includes xWiki, authentication, BOO (bugs.opensolaris.org), SCM Console, and various open development projects.

opensolaris.org Content

  • Posted feature spots for OpenSolaris Bible, Storage Summit, Tesla Project, OGB Election and related os/features page changes. See all the opensolaris.org front page features here.
  • Drafted feature spot for the FOX project and started work on feature for a new book, Pro OpenSolaris, coming in April.
  • Announcements section updated for b107, 108 and SXCE 109.
  • New Events section on home page, added OGB election to /os/events.
  • Updated /os/documentation page with OpenSolaris Bible.
  • Started to collect data on usability of draft common landing pages at hub.opensolaris.org and continued testing hub.opensolaris.org
  • Sun-sponsored links updated for the Election, the Storage Summit, and the Application Contest.
  • Updated content plans and added them to the new public roadmap.

opensolaris.org Website Portal Development

  • Looking to get a new version of bugs.opensolaris.org with fixes released in late March or early April.
  • Completed content migration tools (TML/HTML -> XWiki Markup) for the upcoming transition to the new opensolairs.org infrastructure.
  • Finished most of the user and administrative screens for the new authentication application. The vast majority of development work is now complete for auth.
  • Posting website transition plans to Website community - restructuring, user data migration, XWiki evaluation - and will continue to build out that space.
  • Fixed bug in migration scrip to better synchronize the different databases (auth, tonic, poll) for the user data migration.
  • Began testing content migration internally and will start content migration tests externally in March.
  • Working on skinning issues so look/feel of all the opensolaris.org webapps appear seamless to users.
  • Drafting plan for internal and external communications around the website transition.
  • See hub.opensolaris.org to test xWiki integrated with the new auth app.

Code Consolidations

 Updates concerning publication, contributions, and repositories.

  • There were 13 code contributions integrated into OpenSolaris via the sponsor program in February, bringing the total to 371.
  • Thanks to Rich Lowe, Juergen Keil, Rainer Orth, Roland Mainz, Aubrey Li, Nils Goroll, and Boris Ostrovsky for ON contributions. Also, thanks to the following Sun engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback: Ali Bahrami, Alan Perry, Mark Nelson, Casper Dik, Rafael Vanoni, Girish Moodalbail, Jim Carlson, and Bill Holler.
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report. Post mail to request-sponsor to engage the sponsor program participants and review background material on contributing code to consolidations here.

Governance

 Updates from the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB). This month the community finalized details for the March 2009 election.

  • Voting for the new OGB opens Monday, March 9th. For full election details, go to the election page maintained the OGB.
  • The annual election also involves a major ballot measure to ratify the newly proposed OpenSolaris Constitution, which was discussed and drafted on ogb-discuss and other open venues and was updated in March with comments from the community.

OpenSolaris Community Newsletter: Views from the OpenSolaris Developer Collaboration Team
Editor: Jim Grisanzio
Contributors: Jim Grisanzio, Bonnie Corwin, Michelle Olson
About: The OpenSolaris Community Newsletter is a monthly publication from Sun's OpenSolaris Developer Collaboration 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: March 2009

A View of the Community from Sun's OpenSolaris Developer Collaboration Team

Overview

In March the OpenSolaris community held its third poll and elected a new governing board. The proposed replacement to the OpenSolaris Constitution, however, failed to get enough votes to pass. Also, the community gathered for multiple events and user group meetings around the world, and there are several new conferences in the planning stages now. New code contributions were integrated, and new infrastructure projects were opened. We continue to seek contributions to this newsletter and all across the OpenSolaris community.

OpenSolaris in the Media

Updates on OpenSolaris community press coverage. Some highlights from March

 Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte chat with Aaron Newcomb and David Brittle on ZFS - TWIT.TV: FLOSS Weekly 58: ZFS.

Conferences

Updates from OpenSolaris conferences around the world.

Distribution Updates

Updates from the distributions based on OpenSolaris technology. To download the binary distributions, go to the downloads page on opensolaris.org.

Projects, Communities, and User Groups

Updates from the Projects, Communities, and User Groups on opensolaris.org as well as OpenSolaris projects beyond opensolaris.org. To have your new or existing project highlighted here, write an update and ping Jim Grisanzio or post to advocacy-discuss with "newsletter" in the subject field.

    Projects & Communities

    OpenSolaris User Groups (OSUGs)

Infrastructure Status

Updates on opensolaris.org website content and opensolaris.org portal development, which includes XWiki, authentication, BOO (bugs.opensolaris.org), SCM Console, and various open development infrastructure projects. These projects are also briefly tracked on the new opensolaris.org roadmap.

    opensolaris.org: Website Content

  • Posted feature spots for OGB Election and FOX Project. See all the opensolaris.org front page features here.
  • Updated events front page area for CommunityOne and the Kernel Conference Australia (KCA2009).
  • Update /os/events with KCA info, HA Cluster Summit, and OpenSolaris Internals Course.
  • Continued work on feature spot for a new book, Pro OpenSolaris, coming in April and request for HA-Cluster Summit spot in May.
  • Announcements section updated for b110 and PKG updates.
  • Updated /os/documentation page with Getting Started with 2008.11 /in multiple languages/.
  • Migrated drafts of /os/documentation, /os/get/, /os/participate and other landing pages to hub.opensolaris.org for testing.
  • Created new menus on hub.opensolaris.org for audiences (users, participants, contributors, leaders)
  • Continued collecting data on usability of auth.opensolaris.org and  pages at hub.opensolaris.org
  • Started work on macros and wiki templates for groups on hub.opensolaris.org

    opensolaris.org: Website Portal Development

  • Began collecting existing documents and posting new documents for the upcoming transition to the new opensolaris.org. See hub.opensolaris.org to test XWiki v1.6 integrated with the new Authentication (Auth) application. Documents:
  • We will be posting additional documents to the Website Community, opensolaris-announce, and website-discuss in the coming months to outline the transition schedule more fully.

    opensolaris.org: Open Development Infrastructure

  • The opendev project now available at http://opensolaris.org/os/project/opendev. 
  • The project grew out of the SCM Migration Project and is about enabling non-Sun developers to more fully participate in code development before all the consolidation gates are available on opensolaris.org. There are currently four areas of work identified: ongoing Mercurial tools work, defect tracking, community contributions, and moving main source repositories to opensolaris.org. Check out the project page for more information.
  • Subscribe to opendev-discuss to participate in discussions.

Code Consolidations

Updates concerning publication, contributions, and repositories.

  • There were 10 code contributions integrated into OpenSolaris via the sponsor program in March, bringing the total to 381.
  • Thanks to Roland Mainz, Chad Mynhier, Rich Lowe, Juergen Keil and Paul Durrant for ON contributions.  Thanks to Sun engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback: Milan Jurik, Viswanathan Kannappan, Mark Nelson, Frank Batschulat, Seth Goldberg, Sanjay Nadkarni, John Levon and Lucy Wang.
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report. Post mail to request-sponsor to engage the sponsor program participants and review background material on contributing code to consolidations here.

Governance

Updates from the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB).

  • A new OGB was elected in March: John Beck, Valerie Fenwick, Michelle Olson, Simon Phipps, John Plocher, Peter Tribble, Jim Walker.
  • The newly proposed OpenSolaris Constitution was approved by a majority of those members who voted but failed as a percentage of total votes. Thus, the proposal was rejected and the community continues to use the existing constitution. See the election page maintained the OGB as background on the 2009 election.

OpenSolaris Community Newsletter: Views from the OpenSolaris Developer Collaboration Team
Editor: Jim Grisanzio
Contributors for March 2009: Jim Grisanzio, Bonnie Corwin, Michelle Olson, Teresa Giacomini, Alan McClellan
About: The OpenSolaris Community Newsletter is a monthly publication from Sun's OpenSolaris Developer Collaboration 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.
Contributions: We are always looking for contributions to the OpenSolaris Community Newsletter. Just ping advocacy-discuss with your updates on projects, user groups, communities, conferences, contributions, events, etc. If you offer some content, we'd be happy to list you as a contributor.
News & Announcements: Announcements for the OpenSolaris project on opensolairs.org can be found on the opensolaris-announce list. However, other announcements can be found on the lists and forums across individual Communities, Projects, and User Groups and even on other websites off of opensolaris.org entirely. To see absolutely everything, you have to dig into all the group lists since there is no one place to find everything. We encourage all community members to post announcements to opensolaris-announce, so we can build a central repository of major news.

OpenSolaris Newsletter: April 2009

A view of the community from Sun's OpenSolaris Developer Collaboration Team

Announcements & Briefs

Projects, Communities, and User Groups

Updates from the Projects, Communities, and User Groups on opensolaris.org as well as OpenSolaris projects beyond opensolaris.org.

    Projects & Communities

  • The OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) launched its first project this month: Facilitation. The goal of the project is to create a group of facilitators who represent all 47 community groups on opensolaris.org to improve election communication and create a single group with whom OGB can communicate new voting policies.
  • The total number of OpenSolaris User Groups on opensolaris.org grew to 120 in April. Check out the leaders list here and also details to start your own OSUG.

Infrastructure Status

Updates on opensolaris.org website content and opensolaris.org portal development, which includes XWiki, authentication, BOO (bugs.opensolaris.org), SCM Console, and various open development infrastructure projects. These projects are also tracked on the opensolaris.org roadmap.

    opensolaris.org: Website Content

  • Posted feature spot for the Pro OpenSolaris book. See all the opensolaris.org front page features here.
  • Conducted review of feature spot for HA-Cluster Summit spot in May.
  • Updated the announcements section for b111, 112, 113, and PKG updates.
  • Updated new menus on hub.opensolaris.org for users, participants, contributors, and leaders.
  • Started work on Contributor Handbook, Learning Materials, and Leader Manual on hub.opensolaris.org
  • Submitted web content Town Hall presentation slides but did not present due to time constraints.

    opensolaris.org: Website Transition

  • The Website community has been updated significantly for the upcoming website transition to the new infrastructure. The new content includes an overview of the current site's services, pointers to sources of information, an initial collection of background documents, and a section for details about the three phases of the transition. Watch for FAQs and schedules and other materials to help guide everyone through the process.
  • Current transition plans:
    • Phase 1: June 2009. Transition to new membership management application (Auth) and associated database.
    • Phase 2: August 2009. Transition to new site with XWiki for content management.
  • Next, we are planning a series of communications to all users of the site starting in May, so watch for those messages. Also, check the Website community pages and the and

    opensolaris.org: Open Development Infrastructure

  • Mercurial upgraded to 1.1.2 and tools upgraded to work with it.
  • Webrev tool recognizes bugs from Bugster or Bugzilla.
  • Taking ownership of bugs.opensolaris.org from another team. Almost ready to deploy on os.org servers.
    • Recent enhancements: 
    • Submitter automatically added to interest list.
    • Obfuscaters only obfuscate email addresses.
    • Sync'ed category list between bug submission and searching. 
    • Bug submission form directs users to request-sponsor list to work on a bug.

Code Consolidations

Updates concerning publication, contributions, and repositories.

  • There were 13 code contributions integrated into OpenSolaris via the sponsor program in March, bringing the total to 397.
  • Thanks to Aubrey Li, Masayuki Murayama, Juergen Keil, Rich Lowe, Boris Ostrovsky and Paul Durrant for ON contributions. Thanks to Sun engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback: Bill Holler, Casper Dik, Ying Tian, Mark Nelson, Seth Goldberg, Lucy Wang and Kuriakose Kuruvilla.
  • You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the code contributor report. Post mail to request-sponsor to engage sponsor program participants and review background material on contributing code to consolidations.

Governance

 Updates from the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB).

  • The new OGB Chair and Vice Chair were elected in April: Michelle Olson (Chair) and Peter Tribble (Vice Chair).
  • Deirdre Straughan will fulfill the office of OGB Secretary.
  • The OGB published a public calendar of board events for the year.
  • Michelle Olson presented an update on behalf of the OGB at the first 2009 OpenSolaris Town Hall meeting on April 24th.

OpenSolaris Community Newsletter: Views from the OpenSolaris Developer Collaboration Team
Contributors for April 2009: Jim Grisanzio, Bonnie Corwin, Michelle Olson
About: The OpenSolaris Community Newsletter is a monthly publication from Sun's OpenSolaris Developer Collaboration Team, which is the group that originally created the OpenSolaris project in 2004. 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. To contribute ping advocacy-discuss with your updates on projects, user groups, communities, conferences, contributions, events, etc.

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