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December 2006/January 2007 OpenSolaris Community Newsletter

Overview

The OpenSolaris Community started 2007 with a bang as the community broke new records for conversations even before engaging in a massive thread about future licensing options. Additionally, new components on the project were opened, and the community continued to meet within user groups and at conferences, and two new conferences have been set for February in Germany and India.

Quote of the Month

We want to make it easier for developers to not only work on OpenSolaris but to also develop applications on top of OpenSolaris. Getting more people to participate and making it easier for developers to start developing on Sun Solaris is the key thing we're focusing on. Stephen Harpster, Director of Open Source Engineering at Sun Microsystems, quoted in internet.com, 1/10/07.

Community News

News Summaries

• Glynn Foster's weekly news updates: Dec. 12th, Dec. 7th, Jan. 14th, Jan. 14th (addt'l), Jan. 22nd.
• Eric Boutilier's mail list activity reports: Dec. 19th, Jan. 23rd.
• Stephen Harpster, Director of Open Source Engineering at Sun, started a wide-ranging community conversation about dual licensing options (CDDL and GPLv3) that has split into multiple threads addressing not only licensing but also community development and infrastructure issues: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here. Previously, there were several articles in the press exploring OpenSolaris and the upcoming GPLv3.

Jive Discussion Forum Data

• The OpenSolaris Community achieved its first 1 million hit month to the 177 OpenSolaris discussion forums at the end of January.

• For January: Total Web Views: 1,041,476, Unique Visitors: 888,206, Total Threads: 1,736, Total Messages: 7,580.
• From launch 20 months ago: Total Web Views: 10,147,246, Unique Visitors: 7,244,1930, Total Threads: 21,152, Total Messages: 20,675

• Registrations to opensolaris.org doubled for the month of January bringing the total to 21,099.
• More OpenSolaris Community metrics in the marketing community.

Projects & Communities

• 12  projects were opened in Dec/Jan: Brussels; gcc4/GCCfss; ADSL modem; USB webcam support; PRESTO; Audit; Caiman; Cryptographic Framework; Website; Zone Manager; Multi-lingual Glossary; and OSD
• 9 new projects were proposed in Dec/Jan: USB webcam enhance; Automatic Printing Configuration (PRESTO); SATA AHCI HBA driver enhance; Printable Many Page Solaris Manuals; Extended partitions support; KDE; Availability Suite; Zone Manager; and Audit.
• OpenSolaris now has 69 open projects with another 18 that are approved but not yet opened.

Conferences:

• OpenSolaris Day at Sun Tech Days was held on January 16th, in Atlanta. You can download all presentations  here.
• Abstracts for the German Unix User Group's OpenSolaris Developer Conference at the end of February have been posted.
• Abstracts have been posted for an OpenSolaris Day conference in India in February.

Contributions to Consolidation Code

• There were 4 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris via the request-sponsor program in December, bringing the total to 141.
• Thanks to Juergen Keil and Garrett D'Amore for bug fixes. Also thanks to Sun ON engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback: Jan Setje-Eilers, Carol Fields and Minskey Guo.
• There were 3 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris in January, bringing the total to 144.
• Thanks to Stephen Potter, Rich Lowe and Bruce Shaw for the ON bug fixes. A thanks to the ON Sun engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback: Stephen Lau, Sarah Jelinek and Dan Groves.
• You can see all the code contributors, their sponsors, and the bugs fixed in the  code contributor report

User Groups

• The Czech OpenSolaris User Group met on Dec. 13th. Zdenek Burda spoke about Containers, their administration, and his experiences with this technology, and Jiri Cervenka spoke about Mercurial, how it works, and how to work with it and why.
•  The FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) met on Dec. 14th. This was a social meeting held at the Splitz bowling center in Westminster. FROSUG met again on Jan. 25th. Chris McDonald presented Solaris Training, Jerry Jelinek presented presented OpenSolaris Zones and Jon Bowman gave an OpenSolaris update.
• The SVOSUG (Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group) got together on Dec. 21st and held a Holiday Installfest. SVOSUG met again on Jan. 25th, Ben Rockwood talked about "Why Joyent doesn't fsck".
• The NLOSUG (Netherlands OpenSolaris User Group)met on Jan 25th. Bart Muijzer gave an update on the NLOSUG, Peter van Gemert presented what's new in Solaris 10 11/06 and beyond, and Paul van den Bogaard offered a DTrace case study.
• The NEOSUG (New England Opensolaris User Group) met for the first time on Jan. 31st. Topics on the agenda included an introduction to the OpenSolaris project and a technical update on the most recent build.

Technical Status

New Components

• The Man Page consolidation published source for an initial set of 356 man pages on Dec. 11th.  Download.
• The ON Test team published source for the NFSv4 Test Suite was released on Dec. 18th. Download. You can view in the source browser here
• The DevPro Consolidation made source for SCCS and make available on Dec. 19th. Download
• The Globalization Consolidation made source for OS locales and system libraries (non-translation source) available on Dec. 22nd. "From developers to students, from translators to writers, there's a way to contribute to OpenSolaris.org. Help us create excellent reference material to OpenSolaris by translating terms and the definitions in this glossary! - Young Joo Pintaske Download
• The Man Page consolidation published source for a second set of 2790 man pages on Jan. 26th.  Download.

SCM Work: General

• Mercurial 0.9.3 became available at the end of December with rename support which is support needed by the OpenSolaris project.
• The end of the site beta for Mercurial on opensolaris.org pushed out due to the Mercurial release happening later than expected and due to some operational problems encountered in the website support.
• New dates for the end of the site beta and the move of the ON consolidation to Mercurial will be available in early February.

December/January's Newsletter Contributors

Editor: Linda Bernal
Contributors: Bonnie Corwin, Jim Grisanzio, Young Joo Pintaske, 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 or the opensolaris-discuss mail list. The editor will keep track of contributions and list the names of participants in each issue. Also, the editorial team is looking for feedback on the content and format of the newsletter, so please feel free to suggest changes.