Hi All, Last week Dave Miner posted a set of documents that gave more details on what we are up to with regard to Solaris install. Part of the work that I am looking at is what is labeled the 'Engine Investigation' work you see on the document: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/install/files/roadmap_people.pdf
I am currently investigating two in house products for the core engine technology for the Caiman strategy. These are not open source at this point in time so I cannot give more details than that. However, part of my investigation is to include looking at and analyzing other, outside and preferably opensource, installation engine technologies. There are a few of things I am hoping for input, help and guidance from the community on with regard to this investigation. In the document: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/install/files/initial_roadmap.txt There is a section with the following: <begin Engine> Investigate purple haze, pfinstall, engine options - highest priority Target discovery ** Repository discovery Bit mover Verification Observability Metadata generation Extensibility Target instantiation Customization of bits </end Engine> Which is intended to enumerate what we believe is the core engine functionality(at a very high level) we must provide. If you look at this document in its entirety it is intended to show the high level breakdown of the Caiman projects we intend, and how they fit. So, the engine technology is part of what we believe to be the 'interactive installer' piece. So, how can you get involved? Several ways: -Review the basic breakdown we provided above. Send comments, questions, feedback to this alias. All input is appreciated. -If you have thoughts on existing install engine technologies you think are worth looking at send that data to this alias. -If you have the cycles to help evaluate these engine technologies and send us your thoughts on the viability of using any of them, that would be even better. The intended deadline for completing this engine investigation is early Sept. We want to be able to move in to the next quarter(starts in October) with a plan for development and delivery of the engine functionality. Thanks in advance for your help and participation in this effort. Regards, sarah
