Another week, another weekly news summary. Enjoy!
== Michelle Olson announced [1] the latest drop from the docs consolidation, including the addition of an IP Services system administration guide among other changes. 1.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-February/000906.html Jim Grisanzio announced [2] the launch of the Japanese portal for opensolaris.org [3], representing the first locale specific portal to be set up under the Portals project [4]. 2.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-February/000907.html 3.http://jp.opensolaris.org/ 4.http://opensolaris.org/os/project/portals/ Mark Maybee announced [5] a delay in the latest Solaris Express Community Edition, due to a bug in ZFS which could cause corruption in ZFS pools under certain circumstances. He mentioned that build 58 of SXCE would be skipped in preferance for build 59 which contained this important fix. 5.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-announce/2007-February/000909.html Jim Grisanzio accepted [6] his nomination for OGB, along with James McPherson [7], Keith Wesolowski [8], and Michelle Olson [9]. Bill Sommerfeld decided [10] to respectfully decline the nomination. 6.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-February/001588.html 7.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-February/001625.html 8.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-February/001630.html 9.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-February/001645.html 10.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-February/001599.html Stephen Hahn posted [11] the latest set of meeting minutes from the OGB, dated 14th February. 11.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-February/001585.html Al Hopper posted [12] his initial set of questions for a test poll on the new election software, which Roy Fielding suggesting [13] that they be shortened in length. Al also posted [14] an initial revision of the election schedule, following it up with a second draft [15] later on. Stephen Hahn posted [16] his draft poll.opensolaris.org voting setup, and followed up [17] saying that he had loaded it with the current set of membership data, and released the code [18] 12.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-February/001586.html 13.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-February/001609.html 14.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-February/001605.html 15.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-February/001638.html 16.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-February/001649.html 17.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-February/001656.html 18.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/website-discuss/2007-February/003050.html Alan Coopersmith mailed [19] asking whether CD images were of future benefit for Solaris Nevada, based on internal discussions due to changes in the way install images were being built. Moinak Ghosh replied [20], among other opinions, to say that this would significantly impact the deployment in India mentioning that many individuals and colleges were likely to only have CDROM drives rather than DVD. Ignacio Marambio Catan replied [21] that it would have an impact in most third world countries, though mentioned that the existing 512MB RAM requirement was also a significant limiting factor. 19.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-February/025555.html 20.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-February/025586.html 21.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-February/025570.html Laszlo Peter proposed [22] a project for working on the /usr/gnu proposal [23], recently approved by PSARC, with the aim of integrating more GNU packages into Solaris. 22.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-February/025475.html 23.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-arc/2007-January/000884.html Cindi McGuire proposed [24] a project for fault management event registry, including the registry contents, set of CLIs and a web-based browser tool to access event class and payload specifications, diagnosis messages and article details. 24.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-February/025703.html Peter Tribble proposed [25] a project for Java kstats bindings, providing a basic API and JNI inteface. 25.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-February/025704.html Muthusamy Sivasubramanian proposed [26] a project, hdesktop, a Solaris based desktop intended to be a secure, no setup required desktop for the home user. 26.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-February/025693.html Linda Bernal announced [27] the latest release of bugs.opensolaris.org, including the addition of some new fields, and an RSS function in the search results page. 27.http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-February/025692.html
