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July-August 2006 OpenSolaris Community Newsletter

Overview

During the last couple of months, OpenSolaris community members have participated at O'Reilly's OSCON and LinuxWorld conferences and held a number of user group meetings, including a first for the Moscow OpenSolaris User Group. Apple surprised us all with a port of DTrace to Mac OS, and a new port of ZFS to FreeBSD is underway so OpenSolaris technology continues to spread throughout the meta community. Back at home, the program continues to unfold with progress in source code management, code contributions, documentation releases, the opening of new projects on the site, and some bug fixes to the site itself. The opening of the system continues, and the community continues to grow.

Quote of the Month

OpenSolaris is not only powerful, but it is very innovative … it truly opens new horizons for us to explore - Nexenta, July 5, 2006

Community Status

Discussion Forums

The 137 OpenSolaris Jive discussion forums are not only the source of hundreds of technical conversations, but they also contain two regular reports from Eric Boutilier and Glynn Foster to help inform community members about what's going on in the community. Here are links to the reports:

• Eric Boutilier's mail list activity reports: August 7th, July 18th, July 1st.
• Glynn Foster's weekly news updates: July 3rd, July 12th, July 16th, July 25th, July 30th, August 7th, August 14th, August 28th.

Projects & Communities

• Two  projects were open in July: Wireless USB Project,  IPsec Tunnel Reform.
• Eleven new projects were proposed in July: iSNS; PowerPC Port; Updated MIB Support; JDS; OpenSolaris Starter Kit; NFS Observability Tools; Wireless USB Support; JDS Single System Administration; ZFS Boot and Install; ONNV: Packet Event Framework.
• Nine  projects were open in August: Live Media, DHCPv6 Client, Packet Event Framework, net-mib, NFS RDMA, CIFS client, iSNS Server, Starter Kit, Java Desktop System.
• Six new projects were proposed in August: NFSv4.1 p NFS; libMicro; QEMU; gcc4/GCCfss; DHCP v6 Client; and Website
• OpenSolaris now has 43 open projects with another 16 that are approved but not yet opened.
• The Crossbow Project released its first early access code on August 24th.

Conferences

• OpenSolaris participated at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland this July. See Stephen Harpster and Glynn Foster for some links.
• OpenSolaris will also be contributing to all of Sun's Tech Days conferences around the world, so check the schedule for a location near you. There will be technical presentations on OpenSolaris technology as well as a free "OpenSolaris Day" as part of each conference. It's good venue to meet other community members and start user groups. And if you'd like to present, let us know because we are always looking for new speakers.
• OpenSolaris community members also planned and ran the activities at LinuxWorld Expo in San Francisco recently. Ben Rockwood led the effort and has a summary on his blog.

Contributions to Consolidation Code

• There were 10 code contributions put back into OpenSolaris via the request-sponsor program in July, bringing the total to 116.
• Thanks to Juergen Keil, Ruben Rabadan, Rich Lowe, Mike Gerdts and Stephen Potter for ON bug fixes. Also thanks to Sun ON engineers for sponsoring the code through to putback: Jan Setje-Eilers, Ienup Sung, Sarah Jelinek, Dan Price, Cyndy Eastham, Steve Lau and Minskey Guo.
• Thanks to Peter Tribble for Install bug fixes, and thanks to Sun engineer Dave Miner for sponsoring the code through to putback.
• There were three code contributions put back into OpenSolaris via the request-sponsor program in August, bringing the total to 119.
• Thanks to Peter Tribble and Juergen Keil for ON bug fixes. And thanks to Sun ON engineers Cyndy Eastham and Jan Setje-Eilers 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.

User Groups

The user group community on opensolaris.org is clearly growing faster, and we expect even more growth this year as we collaborate with Sun's global Tech Day's developer tour. We'd like to set up user groups at every venue that Tech Days visits. Information on OpenSolaris user groups: Community, Discussions, Leaders.

• User Group Spotlight: The Irish OpenSolaris User Group resumed its activities during the summer, holding meetings in June, July & August. We covered some pretty large topics, such as ZFS, DTrace and an Installfest: subjects we'll almost certainly revisit in future talks. Now that the Irish colleges are coming back from their summer break, we expect a lot more activity in the group since there's plenty to talk about. We hold our meetings on the last Tuesday of each month, but we would be delighted to make exceptions if there's any visitors coming to Ireland who'd like to do a presentation. - Tim Foster

•  The Sydney User Group met on July 6th. Alan Hargreaves spoke on Open Solaris: The road traveled so far, and Brendan Gregg spoke on the upcoming Solaris Internals book.
• The Atlanta User Group met on Tuesday, July 11th and August 8th. At July's meeting Alok Aggarwal, from Sun's Solaris Engineering Group presented NFSv4. At August's meeting, topics of discussion included, an update on some of the things that have gone into OpenSolaris in the last few builds and an introduction to DTrace.
• The Silicon Valley User Group met on July 25th and August 24th. At July's meeting Tim Marsland presented "The Zen on Xen". Jim Mauro and Richard McDougall stopped in to give a short presentation. At August's meeting, Sunay Tripathi presented Crossbow.
• The Singapore OpenSolaris User Group met on July 27th. Chris Harvey led a discussion on Singanix.
•  The Irish OpenSolaris User Group met for the third time on July 25th. Sean McGrath, an engineer in the Sun Ireland Performance Group gave introduction to the Dynamic Tracing facility in OpenSolaris. See Tim Foster's blog for a summary of the meeting. The fourth meeting took place on August 29th, which included an install fest.
•  The Bangalore OpenSolaris User Group met on July 29th to discuss Zones and Resource Controls.
• The Moscow OpenSolaris User Group met for the first time on August 11th to discuss the year in review for OpenSolaris as well as some of the key issues in two books: Solaris Internals II and Solaris Performance and Tools.
• The Front Range OpenSolaris User Group FROSUG) in Colorado held a meeting on August 29th. The "Installfest" was continued while celebrating the groups one-year anniversary and discussing ideas and topics for the upcoming year.
• The NIT Warangal Opensolaris User Group held a meeting on August 30th. Scott Dickson gave technical talk on "Solaris Containers". The attendance was extremely successful with 120 students.
• The Shanghai OpenSolaris User Group opened in China on August 31st. The group is getting ready for its first meeting at Sun's Tech Days in late September. China now has two user groups: Beijing and Shanghai.

Distributions

•  BeleniX 0.4.4 was available for download on July 11th.
• Links to all OpenSolaris distributions here.

Technical Status

New Components

• The Docs consolidation released source for two more books on July 28th. See the Docs download page for detail.

• Solaris Volume Manager System Administration Guide,
• Solaris Express Installation Guide: Basic Installations.

• The Docs consolidation released source for eight more books on August 31st. See the Docs download page for detail.

• Solaris Trusted Extensions Installation and Configuration Guide
• Solaris Trusted Extensions Label Administration,
• Solaris Trusted Extensions User's Guide,
• Solaris Trusted Extensions Transition Guide,
• Solaris Trusted Extensions Developer's Guide,
• Solaris Express Installation Guide: Solaris Flash Archives (Creation and Installation),
• System Administration Guide: Basic Administration,
• System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration.

SCM Work

• Milestones for SCM work are updated.
• Internal beta testing encountered some problems related to recent major changes to our site hosting machines that pushed dates out.
• JDS made a test Subversion (SVN) repository available on August 30th for Beta testing.
• The Companion CD and ON are targeting the week of September 5th-8th to make test repositories available. The Companion CD will be a Subversion repository and the ON repository will be a Mercurial repository.

Website

• Derek Cicero announced a new version of the application on August 28th. Public-facing changes include the following. For the full list of changes and detail, see Derek's email.

• Old URLs can now be redirected to a new location via the new Redirect Mappings feature.
• Files attached to pages will now be indexed for searching.
• Added public keys to user profile (for SCM) and exposed them in Edit Profile, Add User Account, and Edit User Account.
• Blogs RSS and OPML feeds are now available.
• HTML files attached to pages will be displayed with a minimal decorator.
• Jive search form includes link to Advanced Search page.
• Added a feature to Jive Forums to allow a poster to copy their posting to other forums.
• The algorithm for re-ordering child pages has been changed.
• Added description to search results and Files pages for certain file types.
• Changed the character encoding for the JDBC URL from "utf8" to "utf-8".
• Manage Attachments allows user to delete multiple attachments.

Also Noteworthy

• Engineers at Apple ported DTrace to Mac OS 10. DTrace is also being ported to FreeBSD.
• ZFS ports update: FreeBSD and ZFS on FUSE/Linux.
• OpenSolaris has a new graphic opening the website courtesy of Tim Foster. The graphic was chosen as part of a community submission process. Special thanks to all who contributed artwork.
• Community Metrics: July, August.

June's Newsletter Contributors

Editor: Linda Bernal
Contributors: Eric Boutilier, Bonnie Corwin, Tim Foster, Jim Grisanzio, Sridhar Muppalla
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.