[OSUNIX-dev] Welcome to OSUNIX-dev

["C. Bergström"]

Hi everyone..

To jump right in I'd like to define the most important goal

*Build a sustainable development community around OpenSolaris technology*

Any specifics can be discussed later, but some high level overview

Development
    1) Better inter-project communication
    2) Lower the threshold for developers (easier patch review process, 
better and clear documentation for getting started)
    3) To actively participate in Sun code reviews
    4) Ability to bring community issues into focus (security issues, 
specific bugs or things like open source libc project)
    5) Encourage collaboration for new ideas.  (how to improve zfs, 
performance enhancements, new arches and or just cool bits)
    6) Did I mention fix bugs....

There's no way I could make an exhaustive list, but I think this should 
give some sort of idea.

I consider this a developer list, but may infrequently announce new 
resources or ask for feedback in another list/offline/irc for:
Community
    1) Community supported infrastructure
       a. Website
       b. Issue tracker
       c. Mailing list(s)
       d. Blogs
       e. Wiki
       f. Forums
       g. Developer sandboxes (devzones)
       h. QA/Automated build system
    2) Group meetings

Marketing/Evangelizing
    1) Fund raisers to allow for direct sponsorship of projects
    2) Internationalization documentation to allow non-native english 
speakers to be more comfortable (I put this under evangelizing since 
it's really about bringing more people into the community)
    3) cool t-shirts

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Roughly what I've been working on:

    1) Modular checkout and changing of how onnv-gate is built
    2) Independent evaluation of certain OpenSolaris technology packaging
    3) Porting 32bit only libs to amd64
    4) Changing onnv-gate to not build with stab
    5) Generally porting applications from gcc to sun cc (mplayer, 
libffi, liboil, python - which depended on libffi...)


Some of my specific areas of interest are:
    1) Automated build, profiling/optimizaing and QA systems
    2) Entirely open source based OpenSolaris
    3) Enhancing posix compliant tools instead of using non-posix gnu tools
    4) Router/voip/storage appliances
    5) Porting applications to sun cc/alternative compilers

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Some questions to everyone in the group..

1) What's your background?
2) Have anything you've worked on and want to share?
3) Have any specific problems you would like to see this group help you 
with?

So with this I want to wish everyone a big thanks and hope we can all 
build something interesting.

Kindly,

Christopher Bergström

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