WebKit [LSARC/2008/782 FastTrack timeout 26/12/2008]

2009-01-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
features. Sounds like it's a non-issue only if it's only provided as a private interface, not something users can build their own applications (like Epiphany) against, and as long as clients like Evolution only use it for rendering documentation, and not say, HTML e-mails, that may ref

Issues for LSARC/2008/598: Sun Scalable Visualization

2009-01-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
appear to be shipping a large portion of the X Window System, including many libraries and headers which would already be present on the system, and which if included in the global LD_LIBRARY_PATH you set would break other applications. TCR: Stop that! -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Issues for LSARC/2008/598: Sun Scalable Visualization

2009-01-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
around to verifying it's well integrated on Solaris (for instance, there's keyboard driver code for other OS'es, why is it there and do we need it on Solaris?) and doing the ARC reviews. If it needs to be a higher priority, maybe your manager should bring that up with our manager at one of their weekly staff meetings. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Xorg server 1.5 [PSARC/2009/021 FastTrack timeout 01/21/2009]

2009-01-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
information is Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: Xorg server 1.5 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: Author: Alan Coopersmith 1.3 Date of This Document: 13 January, 2009 4. Technical Description This case updates

2009/021 [Xorg server 1.5]

2009-01-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Glenn Skinner wrote: > Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 20:29:22 -0800 (PST) > From: Alan Coopersmith > Subject: Xorg server 1.5 [PSARC/2009/021 FastTrack timeout 01/21/2009] > > ... > Loadable Module Interfaces: > --- > >

Xorg server 1.5 [PSARC/2009/021 FastTrack timeout 01/21/2009]

2009-01-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Darren J Moffat wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> The changes that resulted in these version number bumps include: >> - Replacing the X server's internal access permission checking with >>a much more fine-grained permission checking system, contributed by >

prefetch interfaces [PSARC/2009/039 Self Review]

2009-01-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
How do these interfaces compare with the sun_prefetch.h ones provided by Sun Studio? Is the difference just that these are compiler independent? -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Xorg server 1.5 [PSARC/2009/021 FastTrack timeout 01/21/2009]

2009-01-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > I am sponsoring this case for the X11 Engineering Group. > It times out Wednesday, January 21 (allowing an extra day for the long > holiday weekend in the US). This case was approved at PSARC during ARC Business today. -- -Alan Co

Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) [PSARC/2009/059 FastTrack timeout 02/05/2009]

2009-01-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ibraries So this API is being provided only on x86, not SPARC? Does it make sense to deliver on SPARC if no local frame buffers support it? (i.e. can it run over the network like most extensions, or only locally, like DRI) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at su

prtconf PCI Vendor and Device Ids option [PSARC/2009/057 02/05/2009]

2009-01-29 Thread Alan Coopersmith
and can get out of sync with the others.) That would share the mapping table, since scanpci was switched in PSARC 2008/638 from using it's own private mapping table to using /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids (which HAL introduced in PSARC 2005/399). -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coop

Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) [PSARC/2009/059 FastTrack timeout 02/05/2009]

2009-02-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
amer, etc., not necessarily something we need to address ourselves.This is passing through another project, not a Sun investment, so the cost of shipping it, even if never used, is low. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

OpenGL 3.0 for the NVIDIA graphics driver [LSARC/2009/066 FastTrack timeout 02/11/2009]

2009-02-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
I am sponsoring this fasttrack for John Martin of the x86 Graphics Driver team. The timer is set for Wednesday, Feb. 12. This case requests a micro/patch release binding. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System

EOF of Elite3D (afb) SPARC graphics [PSARC/2009/080 FastTrack timeout 02/16/2009]

2009-02-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e for things that shipped > in OpenSolaris releases should be ... although I don't think this > particular driver has ever shipped in an OpenSolaris case so it may be > moot here. > > Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> +1. >> >>-- Garrett >> >> Alan Coo

OpenGL 3.0 for the NVIDIA graphics driver [LSARC/2009/066 FastTrack timeout 02/11/2009]

2009-02-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Having received the required +1, and no outstanding objections/comments with the timer expiring (and then some, oops), this case is now closed approved. -alan- Alan Coopersmith wrote: > I am sponsoring this fasttrack for John Martin of the x86 Graphics Driver > team. The timer

XKB data migration to xkeyboard-config [PSARC/2009/117 Self Review]

2009-02-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Ienup Sung wrote: > I'm filing this case as a self review and automatic approval for > Javier Acosta. +1 (for whatever that's worth coming from a non-current-member) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. -

tsclient for Opensolaris [LSARC/2008/414 FastTrack timeout 07/08/2008]

2008-07-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ems that have Sun's Windows Desktop Connector installed > (from the Sun Ray Software set), will it use that instead of rdesktop > for RDP connections? -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Removal of /usr/openwin [PSARC/2008/405 FastTrack timeout 07/02/2008]

2008-07-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > I am sponsoring this case for myself and have set the timeout to next > Wednesday, July 2, 2008. If anyone feels more time is needed due to > the upcoming US holiday, please let me know. There having been no discussion on the alias, and the timer being expi

Integrate privoxy into Solaris [LSARC/2008/433 FastTrack timeout 07/17/2008]

2008-07-09 Thread Alan Coopersmith
sertion, those communities, and most others I've seen, are very willing to accept IPv6 enhancements and encouraging of them. Most open source projects had IPv6 support before their commercial brethren. Especially when using the common IPv6 socket APIs, so that changes work equally wel

Clutter for OpenSolaris [LSARC/2008/426 FastTrack timeout 07/05/2008]

2008-07-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
tter packages depend on that, though that is tough to get right with the different SPARC vs. x86 OpenGL packages). -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

GNU Troff (groff) [LSARC/2008/425 FastTrack timeout 07/14/2008]

2008-07-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
rs that Solaris doesn't have, and that alone has been declared to be reason enough. I'll let the project team research the compatibility issue, though I wonder if it's really an issue for this case or the advised future project to replace Solaris *roff with groff. -Alan

Gqview for OpenSolaris [LSARC/2008/451 FastTrack timeout 07/22/2008]

2008-07-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
C Wang wrote: > We haven't shipped ImageMagick on Solaris, Yes, we have, since Solaris 10.See /usr/sfw/bin/convert, display, etc. on older builds, /usr/bin in newer builds. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Windo

GNU Troff (groff) [LSARC/2008/425 FastTrack timeout 07/14/2008]

2008-07-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
the mail archive for the case, I'm happy to see > it approved. > -tdc > > On Jul 15, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> I'll re-open the case for now, but at least part of the answers are >> clear: >> >> 1) We're shipping groff b

tsclient for Opensolaris [LSARC/2008/414 FastTrack timeout 07/08/2008]

2008-07-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
not think we need > do any special for Citrix part. Please check the attached email for > details. So its not going to have its configure script check for wfica on the build machine, but will find it at runtime, so the support will be compiled in and able to run if the user has wfica

compiz for sparc (was: avant-window-navigator for OpenSolaris)

2008-07-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
heir plans for that. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

EOF of cg6 graphics support [PSARC/2008/488 FastTrack timeout 08/06/2008]

2008-07-30 Thread Alan Coopersmith
I am sponsoring this case for myself, with a timeout set for one week from today, Wednesday, August 6, 2008. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.66 04/17/08 SMI This

PSARC/2008/071 - Including LCMS with Solaris

2008-02-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
reaks on major version bumps. The three-part version is just extra decoration that may provide some people with more details about exactly what version is delivered, but makes it harder to deliver a new minor or micro release in a Solaris patch. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

LSARC/2008/059 - SQLite

2008-02-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e said that before, but I still can't believe it since release bindings are only useful as a method of communication to customers, and customers only see the WOS release - they have no way to find out what the consolidation boundaries or release bindings level are, nor should they need to know

Gtkmm, Glibmm, Cairomm and libsigc++ for Indiana [LSARC/2008/074 FastTrack timeout 02/13/2008]

2008-02-05 Thread Alan Coopersmith
be useful to explain how > this library is used so we can make sure we set its interface stability > level properly. And if it's Private, why it should be allowed to be in /usr/lib instead of /usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/ or somewhere like that. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Gtkmm, Glibmm, Cairomm and libsigc++ for Indiana [LSARC/2008/074 FastTrack timeout 02/13/2008]

2008-02-06 Thread Alan Coopersmith
seless until the SFW gcc/g++ is fixed to actually produce usable 64-bit linking flags. (Bugs 6623370 & 6223255.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

LSARC/2008/083 - rdesktop

2008-02-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
X application. You mean why it can't be run from non Sun Ray sessions? My understanding is the answer for that involves legal issues we cannot discuss in an open ARC case such as this one. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Gtkmm, Glibmm, Cairomm and libsigc++ for Indiana [LSARC/2008/074 FastTrack timeout 02/13/2008]

2008-02-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
munity. I would not expect most open source communities to have any interest in producing packages for every single distro & packaging system - there's just too many to have it done by anyone but the people who care about each distro. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.cooper

Gtkmm, Glibmm, Cairomm and libsigc++ for Indiana [LSARC/2008/074 FastTrack timeout 02/13/2008]

2008-02-07 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Dana H. Myers wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> John Plocher wrote: >> >>> In my mind, it boils down to a question of why we would require, say, >>> the >>> source for Firefox to be copied from the upstream community to a SFW >>> source >

LSARC/2008/088 - libcddb

2008-02-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
f that work - which would be okay if the lawyers agreed that "the work" in this case referred just to cddb_query and not the entire package including libcddb. This is treading into questions for lawyers, not project teams or ARC's though. -- -Alan Coopersmith- a

x11perf [PSARC/2008/095 Self Review]

2008-02-08 Thread Alan Coopersmith
. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.64 07/13/07 SMI This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name

luit [PSARC/2008/100 Self Review]

2008-02-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
new program addition, this case has a Patch Release Binding. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.64 07/13/07 SMI This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems 1

PSARC/2008/102 - Python Imaging Library (PIL)

2008-02-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
't it be better to work on a fasttrack to raise its stability instead of yet another contract? -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

LSARC/2008/104 (xdg utils) and LSARC/2007/154 (xdisplaylock)

2008-02-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ure notification of i/f changes. This sounds like it should probably supersede the never completed LSARC/2007/154 then - will it do everything the virtual consoles team needed from that case? -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

LSARC/2008/083 - rdesktop

2008-02-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
xtended to speak NFS protocol as well as CIFS, but the teams involved aren't likely to do so, and we shouldn't fork them to force a merge that no one else has done. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

fc-cache force_rebuild [PSARC/2008/106 FastTrack timeout 02/19/2008]

2008-02-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
I am sponsoring this fasttrack for myself and have set the timeout to next Tuesday, February 19, 2008. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.64 07/13/07 SMI This

fc-cache force_rebuild [PSARC/2008/106 FastTrack timeout 02/19/2008]

2008-02-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
sets it every time it's run, so there's no way in the current design to force it every time, but I didn't think that was needed. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

xwd -silent [PSARC/2008/107 Self Review]

2008-02-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
I am sponsoring this case for Niveditha Rau of the X11 Engineering team, and have marked it closed approved automatic as it simply adds a new command option that is in the current X11R7 release of xwd from X.Org. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun

xwud -dumpheader & -scale [PSARC/2008/108 Self Review]

2008-02-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
I am sponsoring this case for Nivedita Rau of the X11 Engineering team. I have marked it closed approved automatic as it simply imports two new options that X.Org has added in the latest X11R7 releases of xwud. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun

LSARC/2008/115 - Compiz: Compositing window manager

2008-02-14 Thread Alan Coopersmith
John Fischer wrote: > This is an x86 project only as it depends upon OpenGL. Small correction, before someone asks the obvious question - the missing dependency is on the OpenGL TextureFromPixmap extension which isn't supported by the OpenGL we do have on SPARC. -- -Alan Coo

LSARC/2008/116 - XDG User Dirs

2008-02-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ncluded bits of cruft from CDE, Enlightment, OpenWindows, KDE, and versions of GNOME that Sun never incorporated into Solaris, plus Netscape binaries Sun had no control over, as well as non desktop stuff and stuff from Sun's internal IT scripts in your list.) -- -Alan Coopersmith-

LSARC/2008/116 - XDG User Dirs

2008-02-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
harder to login to one. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

fc-cache force_rebuild [PSARC/2008/106 FastTrack timeout 02/19/2008]

2008-02-20 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > I am sponsoring this fasttrack for myself and have set the timeout to > next Tuesday, February 19, 2008. This case was approved during PSARC business today, since I forgot to close it yesterday. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at s

2008/135 Mail Utilities

2008-02-21 Thread Alan Coopersmith
the WOS, so the question makes no sense. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

LSARC/2008/129 - RRDTool

2008-02-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
> /usr/sfw/lib/libfreetype.so.6 VolatileLSARC/2002/291 Just for the record, the stability of /usr/sfw/lib/libfreetype.so.6 is now Obsolete. The pathname /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 is Uncommitted, the API's provided in it are still Volatile. (See LSARC 2007/662.) --

fontconfig 2.5.0 [LSARC/2008/140 FastTrack timeout 02/29/2008]

2008-02-22 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e and requests a patch binding. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.64 07/13/07 SMI This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Comp

[osol-rfe] Is /usr/bin/ksh93 planned to be in S10U5?

2008-02-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
[Reply-to set to the only one of these three mailing lists where this question is close to being on-topic.] Chris Pickett wrote: > Is /usr/bin/ksh93 planned to be in Solaris 10 Update 5? No. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems,

fontconfig 2.5.0 [LSARC/2008/140 FastTrack timeout 02/29/2008]

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
fy the upstream fc-cache. (The script is not yet integrated into Nevada, but will be shortly to implement PSARC/2008/106.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

setxkbmap [PSARC/2008/162 Self Review]

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
erfaces should still be called out in the import lists. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

[Fwd: [osol-announce] ARC cases will be unavailable on opensolaris.org for 24 hours]

2009-03-02 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Original Message Subject: [osol-announce] ARC cases will be unavailable on opensolaris.org for 24 hours Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:57:43 + From: Alan Burlison Reply-To: mailer at opensolaris.org To: opensolaris-announce at opensolaris.org, website-discuss at opensolar

[arc-discuss] [Fwd: [osol-announce] ARC cases will be unavailable on opensolaris.org for 24 hours]

2009-03-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Jim Carlson wrote: > [Thanks to Alan Coopersmith for forwarding the original message.] Well, you should all be on opensolaris-announce, but while we discussed autosubscribing all new accounts back when you were on the OGB, I don't think we ever followed through to make it happen, so we k

EOF of xorgcfg & xorgconfig [PSARC/2009/148 FastTrack timeout 03/10/2009]

2009-03-03 Thread Alan Coopersmith
I am sponsoring this fast-track on behalf of the X11 Engineering Team. The timeout is set for Monday, March 10, 2009. -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.68 02/23/09

EOF of xorgcfg & xorgconfig [PSARC/2009/148 FastTrack timeout 03/10/2009]

2009-03-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
using me!" messages as some EOF's optionally choose to do as well. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

EOF of xorgcfg & xorgconfig [PSARC/2009/148 FastTrack timeout 03/10/2009]

2009-03-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
lowed gave us the need and ability to add more EOF notices in update releases as we go forward.It's been a decade since minor releases were 12-18 months apart and thus lined up with the one year notice of EOF requirements. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com

EOF of xorgcfg & xorgconfig [PSARC/2009/148 FastTrack timeout 03/10/2009]

2009-03-04 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ation that should be updated, let me know, and we'll do that too. I've already gone through all the Xorg driver man pages upstream to remove xorgcfg & xorgconfig from their See Also lists, so those updates will be coming with the driver updates with Xorg 1.6.) --

OpenGrok [LSARC/2009/165 FastTrack timeout 03/17/2009]

2009-03-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
engrok or services/web/opengrok in a future OpenSolaris release.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Laptop ACPI Hotkey X Support [LSARC/2009/191 FastTrack timeout 03/31/2009]

2009-03-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Volatile > "ESC_acpiev_display_switch" Volatile > "ESC_acpiev_sleep"Volatile > "ESC_acpiev_screen_lock" Volatile > "ESC_acpiev_audio_mute" Volatile Since those are cross-consolid

Laptop ACPI Hotkey X Support [LSARC/2009/191 FastTrack timeout 03/31/2009]

2009-03-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Henry Zhao wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Shi-Ying Irene Huang wrote: >> >>>4.2 Implementation >>>Keymap of a keyboard device is to be patched with a number of >>> hotkey keysymsprovided in HAL's fdi file w

Rules for /usr/bin

2008-03-10 Thread Alan Coopersmith
g under the Sun outside ON, I'm sure "the Indiana folks" have no such misconceptions. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

X11R7 update to libXext, libXevie & libXss [PSARC/2008/194 Self Review]

2008-03-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.64 07/13/07 SMI This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems 1. Introduction 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: X11R7 update to libXext, libXevie & libXss 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: Author: Alan Coopers

X11R7 update to libXext, libXevie & libXss [PSARC/2008/194 Self Review]

2008-03-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Whoops, hit send too soon - this should have said: I am sponsoring this case for myself, and marking it closed approved automatic, with a patch release binding, as it simply synchronizes our library delivery with X.Org's X11R7 release, and makes no incompatible changes. -Alan Cooper

Nethack 3.4.3 [PSARC/2008/172 FastTrack timeout 03/11/2008]

2008-03-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
of files in /usr/lib/pkgconfig to the number of /usr/bin/*-config commands and learn just what you were saved from. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

PSARC/2008/179 cross link-editor

2008-03-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
y all of ON. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008]

2008-03-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
or an OpenSolaris community member, telling them that is basically saying "screw you, you'll never get it from us."They can't add a service request, and can't escalate it - that's the process for customers, not the community. -- -Alan Coopersmith-

star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008]

2008-03-12 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e more than happy to accept > suggested fixes from where ever they come. How would an external person get the information to create the docs - reverse engineer the source code? Is there no internal specification other than the source code for them? I believe that's the docs Jo

star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008]

2008-03-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
>> for >> programs that exist for a long time. > > You should if there is a better way or an expected way of doing things. > > Consistency within an operating platform is important, and any > services on Solaris are now expected to use SMF. Services yes - but

star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008]

2008-03-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
urces from the DevPro consolidation are just one of them: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/ -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

star, rmt, and librmt [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008]

2008-03-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
s also an open case 2007/588 for the SAM/QFS 5.0 release where this issue may also need to be addressed.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

star access control [PSARC/2008/176 FastTrack timeout 03/12/2008]

2008-03-19 Thread Alan Coopersmith
op John from building his own rmt without that restriction and having it specified as the argument for rsh/ssh to run instead? -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

OpenEXR [LSARC/2008/209 FastTrack timeout 03/31/2008]

2008-03-23 Thread Alan Coopersmith
lic C++ apps be compiled with Sun Studio, which has a stable ABI across releases? (See section 4.1.8 of the opinion of PSARC/2002/348 for the current rules, which despite prior requests is unfortunately still not published on opensolaris.org.) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan

PSARC 2008/212 Integrate Unison into Solaris

2008-03-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
missions copied correctly when moving files between fully featured file systems? Even if one is NTFS and the other UFS or ZFS? What about ACL's? -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

OpenEXR [LSARC/2008/209 FastTrack timeout 03/31/2008]

2008-03-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > (See section 4.1.8 of the opinion of PSARC/2002/348 for the current rules, > which despite prior requests is unfortunately still not published on > opensolaris.org.) Okay, enough people pointed out I was one of the lazy bums who could do this but hadn't

PSARC 2002/348 (ICU) opinion & C++ library/ABI policy

2008-03-24 Thread Alan Coopersmith
n easily found ARC best practice document for those introducing C++ libraries (like quite a few recent cases from the open source importing work) who don't know that ICU is the case that defined it. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsyste

PSARC 2008/212 Integrate Unison into Solaris

2008-03-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Yan Xue Yang wrote: > Alan Coopersmith ???: >> Frank Che wrote: >> >> >>> 4.3.2 When synchronize between a single-user file system and a shared >>> Unix >>> server, by default, Unison will synchronize permissions verbatim, >>> which may &

Comments on case PSARC/2008/176

2008-03-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e not prepared to discuss things in ARC that have never been discussed before in ARC, then you're not prepared to participate in ARC. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

Comments on case PSARC/2008/176

2008-03-25 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> Anyone can have any discussion they want, and come to any agreement they >> want in >> a project forum - only those that happen in the ARC are precedent for ARC >> decisions, and if you're not prepared

[desktop-discuss] GNOME 2.22 [LSARC/2008/207 FastTrack timeout 04/02/2008]

2008-03-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
", "will include any fixes provided by the community in the next release", or some other level of support - that's all stuff to put in your C-Team Checklist, not your ARC case. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

PSARC 2008/196 libscsi and libses

2008-03-26 Thread Alan Coopersmith
James C. McPherson wrote: > Has this fasttrack timed out and got an automatic approval yet? It was approved during ARC business at today's PSARC meeting. The case owner needs to update the case status. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Micr

Integrate Unison into Solaris

2008-03-28 Thread Alan Coopersmith
o one person in the world has access to 100% of the sources in Solaris or even in the OpenSolaris operating system (aka Indiana).) -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

GNOME Display Manager (GDM) Rewrite [LSARC/2009/433 OnePager]

2009-08-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
I don't see a mention in this case of GDM replacing dtlogin as the default login screen, and EOL'ing dtlogin - is that going to be handled by this case or are you going to bring LSARC 2005/417 back again to do that at the same time as this case integrates? -- -Alan C

ConsoleKit [LSARC/2009/432 OnePager]

2009-08-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ib/ConsoleKit/scripts/ck-system-restart script is run if a > restart >action was requested. If a shutdown action was requested, then the >/usr/lib/ConsoleKit/scripts/ck-system-stop script is run. > >On Solaris, the ck-system-stop script runs "/sbin/init 5

GNOME Display Manager (GDM) Rewrite [LSARC/2009/433 OnePager]

2009-08-11 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ng it or pretending it's not happening is simply ignoring reality and serves no one's interest. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

[desktop-discuss] GNOME Display Manager (GDM) Rewrite [LSARC/2009/433 OnePager]

2009-08-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
icates the system default shell should be used - on Solaris & OpenSolaris, that's "/bin/sh", which is a valid shell. If you're skipping those because they're blank do you also skip non-system accounts using that shorthand? (How do you determine which shells are valid? g

GNOME Display Manager (GDM) Rewrite [LSARC/2009/433 OnePager]

2009-08-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
it was a fasttrack or set a timer. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

SECURITY: request for feedback/review of asadmin command authentication

2009-08-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
auth command. Since that's been in use for 15 years, perhaps seeing just how close you are to that model would be interesting. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

[i18n-discuss] xkeyboard-config update from v1.4 to v1.6 [PSARC/2009/440 Self Review]

2009-08-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
_bksp option to the XKB options in the HAL .fdi file we use to configure keyboards now.) -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Suresh Chandrasekharan wrote: > Hi Garret, >I think the visible differenc

[i18n-discuss] xkeyboard-config update from v1.4 to v1.6 [PSARC/2009/440 Self Review]

2009-08-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Garrett D'Amore wrote: > (What application would bind to Ctrl-Backspace? That's one I've never > seen before...) Allegedly, it's common in emacs, though I've never used it in all the years I've used xemacs. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan

gobject-introspection and gir-repository [LSARC/2009/442 FastTrack timeout 08/25/2009]

2009-08-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
e packaged with the library itself instead of in the common packages? -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

changing stability levels (was: Fast Crash Dump)

2009-08-13 Thread Alan Coopersmith
PSARC/2007/154 DOF stability to Committed PSARC/2007/355 ddi_modopen Stability Promotion PSARC/2006/407 [TCP|UDP]_EXCLBIND Stability Change -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

[desktop-discuss] GNOME Display Manager (GDM) Rewrite [LSARC/2009/433 OnePager]

2009-08-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
ueries. It's not always bad or forbidden, just an option some sites will want and others will not. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

[desktop-discuss] GNOME Display Manager (GDM) Rewrite [LSARC/2009/433 OnePager]

2009-08-15 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Joerg Schilling wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> Joerg Schilling wrote: >>> Giving any kind of information about known user names is considered a >>> security >>> risk since aprox. 35 years on UNIX. >> Depends on site security policy - it&

daemon() in libc [PSARC/2009/444 FastTrack timeout 08/24/2009]

2009-08-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
alternative interface is both out-of-scope, and missing the point of providing a BSD/Linux compatible interface, have you discussed with the SMF team whether daemon() should be putting the process into a new process contract? -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com

daemon() in libc [PSARC/2009/444 FastTrack timeout 08/24/2009]

2009-08-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Garrett D'Amore wrote: > From what I could tell, the daemon() function is not present on Linux > (glibc). http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/daemon.3.html -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Wi

daemon() in libc [PSARC/2009/444 FastTrack timeout 08/24/2009]

2009-08-17 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 03:50:49PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Darren Reed wrote: >>> One could argue that the original daemon() does not offer much flexibility >>> and that this approach to daemonization is actually not sufficient in S

ConsoleKit [LSARC/2009/432 OnePager]

2009-08-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Brian Cameron wrote: > - Alan Coopersmith asked why some scripts are installed to /usr/lib and > others to /usr/lib/ConsoleKit/scripts. > > The difference is that the files installs to /usr/lib are libexec > programs which would normally be installed to /usr/libexec on Linu

Firefox 3.5.x on S10 [LSARC/2009/446 FastTrack timeout 08/27/2009]

2009-08-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
r/lib/gnome-private/bin/gtkdoc-scangobj > /usr/lib/gnome-private/bin/gtkdoc-scanobj > /usr/lib/gnome-private/bin/gtkdocize > /usr/lib/gnome-private/share/pkgconfig/gtk-doc.pc >SUNWdbus-priv-devel dbus-glib libraries >SUNWdbus-bindings-priv-devel >SUNWgnome-base-libs-priv-devel glib, cairo, atk and pango -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering

GNOME Display Manager (GDM) Rewrite [LSARC/2009/433 OnePager]

2009-08-18 Thread Alan Coopersmith
Brian Cameron wrote: > - Alan Coopersmith raised the issue that we need a follow-up case to > EOL CDE Login. Personally I think that it would make more sense if > the engineers within the Desktop team who are responsible for CDE > login were to follow-up with such a case.

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