Peter Tribble wrote: > Dave, > >> It's been a few weeks since I last posted an update on the activities of >> the Solaris Installation team, so I thought we should celebrate the >> solstice with the current news. > > Thanks for the update! > >> - we now have an engineer actively working on open-sourcing the >> remainder of the current installation code > > Which includes? Live upgarde? Patch tools? Update Manager? The install > system? >
Update Manager is not part of our consolidation, the other things above are. What specifically will be open-sourced depends on the legal review, as some portions contain 3rd-party code acquired under various contracts. Ideally, all of it will be, but since we aren't at the point of knowing that yet, I'd rather pass on being specific. >> We'll be continuing our efforts to bring more of our activity out into >> the community for wider participation, but if there's something in >> particular that you think we could be doing better to foster this >> community, please let us know. > > In what way can we get involved in the new installer? Are there going > to be prototypes available to test? > There surely will be prototypes down the road for testing, but that's going to be some time yet. We had some discussion about how to provide broader involvement opportunities, but didn't get any really definite ideas for right now, so part of my posting of what's going on is to perhaps trigger some ideas. Anyway, there's going to be a bunch of UI design work that I expect we'll be providing for feedback (which is a very iterative process), so that's one thing; our new designer is just starting to pull things together there, but it probably won't be too many weeks before that's possible. We could certainly talk about involvement in the investigation activities that are going on right now, it really depends on what sort of time investment someone's able to make. Dave
