Hey, Given how quiet things were during the holidays, I've merged 2 weeks together in the latest edition of the weekly news. Hopefully we're now back on track, apologies for the delays.
Glynn == > Stephen Hahn mailed [1] discussing the need for restricted integration builds > of > OpenSolaris (having written previously in his blog [2]) suggesting that a > 2 build restriction be placed every 3 months. Richard Lowe questioned [3] how > it > would work leading up to a Solaris release, which had a longer period of > stabilization, and pointing out [4] that gate handling get complicated with > each > vendor added when OpenSolaris remains just a source base and not a binary > product. > > 1. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-code/2007-January/003749.html > 2. http://blogs.sun.com/sch/entry/opensolaris_restricted_builds_through_the > 3. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-code/2007-January/003754.html > 4. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-code/2007-January/003778.html > > Norm Jacobs proposed [5] project 'Presto', for automatic printing > configuration; > to improve Solaris approachability, specifically the print service, by > automatically (or as automatically as possible) discovering and > configuring access to directly attached, network attached, and remotely > served printers. > > 5. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/printing-discuss/2007-January/000191.html > > John Plocher mailed [6] to say that he was resyncing the ARC caselog mirror, > cleaning up some issues that had been experienced over the end-of-year > transition. > > 6. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/arc-discuss/2007-January/000171.html > > Stephen Harpster mailed [7] to say that Sun management had approved and signed > the constitution. Simon Phipps commented [8] that there was a need to get an > OGB > elected under the new rules as soon as possible. Stephen mailed [9] with an > update on the actions required for the new OGB to be elected, including > finalizing > the contributors list, proposing a schedule, and setting up the logistics for > a vote. > > 7. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-January/001378.html > 8. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-January/001380.html > 9. http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/cab-discuss/2007-January/000710.html > > Joerg Schilling mailed [10] announcing the first porting results for SCCS. > SCCS now compiles and runs on SunOS 4, SunOS 5 and Linux. > > (mailman archives appear to be incomplete for December-2006) > 10. http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=80557𓪭 > > Colin Zou proposed [11] a new project to enhance the support of USB webcams, > delivering a set of userland libs and applications. Dachuan Fir Qin proposed > [12] a project for supporting more ahci-compliant chipsets and adding more > features to ahci driver. > > 11. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-January/022985.html > 12. > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-discuss/2007-January/023088.html _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
