[OSUNIX-dev] Re: Welcome to OSUNIX-dev

[Moinak Ghosh]

This is a nice list. Regd. "Entirely open source based OpenSolaris",
one of the biggest sticking
points is the closed libc_i18n stuff. The Emancipation project was
started to address this but it
seems to be going nowhere. Additionally there are some closed drivers.
Masayuki Murayama
has open-source alternatives to some closed NIC drivers. We can help
testing those and provide
feedback to him.

Regards,
Moinak.

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:16 PM, "C. Bergström"
<cbergstrom at netsyncro.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> -------------
> *Mailing list etiquette*
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/mailing-list-faq/etiquette.html
> -------------
>
> 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
>
> -------------
>
> 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
>
> codestr0m #ospkg // ##opensolaris irc.freenode.net
>
>
>



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