[osol-discuss] Brief downtime today for opensolaris.org

2008-07-24 Thread Eric Boutilier
We need to do some database maintenance, so the opensolaris.org site will be offline briefly starting around 9:00 - 9:15 am PDT today (Wednesday). We expect the outage to last no more than 15 minutes. Eric ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris

Re: [osol-discuss] Brief downtime today for opensolaris.org

2008-07-24 Thread Eric Boutilier
> > the opensolaris.org site will be offline briefly starting around 9:00 - > 9:15 am PDT today (Wednesday)... > Correction: "today (Thursday)" ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Mailman downtime

2008-07-03 Thread Eric Boutilier
We need to bring the Mailman service down starting now. We expect it to be back online in 60 - 90 minutes. Eric ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

2007-11-02 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Mario Goebbels wrote: > > ... > I don't think that the name "OpenSolaris" is making the big difference > here > Agreed. I'd even go so far as to say uptake of Nevada might be on the verge of /skyrocketing/ with this release. I believe there's massive, long-building, pent up

[osol-discuss] Be less inflammatory (Was: Even those in favor of Indiana==OpenSolaris..)

2007-11-02 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Shawn Walker wrote: > > I suggest you choose more accurate and less inflammatory > descriptions of actions taken... > I agree. ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-31 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Jim Grisanzio wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: >> On 31/10/2007, Alan Burlison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Simon Phipps wrote: >>> > Who is it? I think it's an important question. There is no arbiter - that would imply a political frame. This is an open source co

Re: [osol-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-31 Thread Eric Boutilier
Ian Murdock wrote: > Eric Boutilier wrote: >> Agreed. We're certainly being watched very closely by the rest >> of the FOSS/UNIX/Linux world -- and from day one we've been >> breaking exciting new ground in that world in tons of wonderful >> ways -- but

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-31 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Eric Boutilier wrote: > [ Moving to advocacy-discuss ] > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Alan Burlison wrote: >> Eric Boutilier wrote: >> >>> As Alan Coopersmith just alluded to, it's not up to the OGB to >>> mandate a vote. (Nor is it up t

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-31 Thread Eric Boutilier
[ Moving to advocacy-discuss ] On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Alan Burlison wrote: > Eric Boutilier wrote: > >> As Alan Coopersmith just alluded to, it's not up to the OGB to >> mandate a vote. (Nor is it up to Sun of course); and among those >> who do have the power

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-31 Thread Eric Boutilier
Eric Boutilier wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Alan Burlison wrote: >> MC wrote: >> >>> My understanding of the OpenSolaris constitution, community, and OGB is that the OGB appoints members of the community ("core contributers") to have the power to vote on

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

2007-10-31 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Alan Burlison wrote: > MC wrote: > >> My understanding of the OpenSolaris constitution, community, and OGB is that >> the OGB appoints members of the community ("core contributers") to have the >> power to vote on issues that concern the community. >> >> The naming issue obv

Re: [osol-discuss] Mail list owners: SpamAssassin implemented; Action recommended

2007-10-12 Thread Eric Boutilier
ulson wrote: > On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Mark Martin wrote: > >> On 10/11/07, Eric Boutilier wrote: >>> >>> Basic spam filtering with SpamAssassin is now running on the >>> Mailman server. As a result, we recommend that mail-list owners >>> (modera

[osol-discuss] Mail list owners: SpamAssassin implemented; Action recommended

2007-10-11 Thread Eric Boutilier
Basic spam filtering with SpamAssassin is now running on the Mailman server. As a result, we recommend that mail-list owners (moderators) reinstate "friendly" handling of non-subscriber posts, as follows: - Go to the Privacy -> Sender Filters screen and change the "generic_nonmember_action" opt

Re: [osol-discuss] User facing website prototype.

2007-09-24 Thread Eric Boutilier
Alan Burlison wrote: > ... > > Anyone interested, please take a look at http://opensolaris.org/os/project/website/ and post followups to website-discuss. > > +1 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-24 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Dave Miner wrote: > Eric Boutilier wrote: >> On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Dave Miner wrote: >>> ... See: >>> >>> http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/indiana_installer_prototype >> >> This news (which I think is *awesome*, by the way) mak

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-23 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Dave Miner wrote: > ... See: > > http://blogs.sun.com/dminer/entry/indiana_installer_prototype This news (which I think is *awesome*, by the way) makes me wonder now more than ever which install clusters do/don't contain non-redistributable files (if any). http://mail.opensola

Re: [osol-discuss] new to solaris, can you answer some questions please?

2007-07-23 Thread Eric Boutilier
games-discuss seems to be the best place for people interested in wine on OpenSolaris these days. Via Jive forum: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=97 Via "listserv" (Mailman actually): http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/games-discuss ___

[osol-discuss] Laptop bargain hunting experience and specs write-up

2007-07-16 Thread Eric Boutilier
[Cross-posting to osol-discuss and indiana-discuss. Followups to laptop-discuss please. I've set the reply-to header accordingly.] Prompted partly by anticipation (and delight) of the distro constructor project being discussed on indiana-discuss recently, I bought an "economy model" laptop ove

Re: [osol-discuss] Codec pack gone?

2007-06-25 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, Ian Collins wrote: I just tried installing the codec pack from http://opensolaris.es/codec-pack.sh and the install fails with In case this helps, on indiana-discuss, the author of the codec pack wrote: = ... = The bright side is that I committed all the patches I wrote for

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Open Solaris HowTo on x86

2007-06-18 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, W. Wayne Liauh wrote: You can also try Dennis Clarke's "A Step by Step Guide to Installing Solaris 10": http://www.blastwave.org/docs/s10u3_howto.html I feel guilty for never bothering to send feedback to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . There is also a Solaris x86 FAQ at: http://faq

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Globalization Workspaces

2007-06-13 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007, Simford Dong wrote: Project Proposal: Globalization Workspaces G11N (Globalization) Consolidation has released a couple of source tarballs in Sun Download Center last year: http://dlc.sun.com/osol/g11n/downloads/software/current/ Community users can download and browse the

[osol-discuss] Re: QT/Jambi on Solaris 10/Sun Studio 11

2007-06-12 Thread Eric Boutilier
it's nice. Could you post your configure options for Qt 4.3.0 ?? ... In case this helps, I'm working on maintaining a "clearinghouse" of published OpenSolaris freeware (F/OSS) porting data, aka build recipes: http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/BuildRecipesReference Case in point: The build

[osol-discuss] Start an indiana-discuss list now? (Was: Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro)

2007-06-04 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Ian Murdock wrote: +1. Can we have our list now? +1 from me for what it's worth. In other words getting that resource (a list) typically goes hand-in-hand with a project going from proposal status to community-approved status, but I'm pretty sure that's just protocol, not

[osol-discuss] Re: Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-03 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Ian Murdock wrote: On 5/31/07, Darren J Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Before we go too far down the track of creating a "so called" reference binary distribution of OpenSolaris I think we need to first clearly for the whole community document exactly what problem we are

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-06-03 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Simon Phipps wrote: On May 31, 2007, at 13:36, James Carlson wrote: I don't think anyone is saying that you can't create a distribution yourself without bothering with any project, community, or governing board. You can. Knock yourself out. But that's not what's happeni

[osol-discuss] Re: Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-03 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Ian Murdock wrote: ... ... *Building a reference isn't the main goal*. What is the main goal? Making OpenSolaris more accessible to people like this: ... Understood, and that's precisely why I keep saying Indiana needs a reset based on case 2007/047. Indiana's goals (e.g. Ma

[osol-discuss] Re: Do we even need a reference OpenSolaris binary distro

2007-06-03 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Ian Murdock wrote: ... Given how negative this community is on Linux... But when one looks literally *anywhere* else on opensolaris.org besides this list one finds the complete opposite, namely, flexibility, diversity, non-zealotry, and non-fear. And with that in mind, it's

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-06-01 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears to me that item #2 can be broken down further. The idea of having a reference distribution is totally different from the requirement to be compatible. Right; AFAIK distributions like "Nexenta" would not fall under the "compatible" defin

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-06-01 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007, Eric Boutilier wrote: Me too. In fact for me it's the CRUX of the whole problem. (Assuming this project still wants to be Sun-derived.) It's THE single show-stopper. In other words, without it, then I'd be happy to see the project go forward as-is. Clari

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-06-01 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Thu, 31 May 2007, James Carlson wrote: Glynn Foster writes: ... The only other sticking point is the name, and I agree with your concerns - though arguably that's the most exciting part of the project proposal. I'm not trying alienate all the other current or future distributions in any of th

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-06-01 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Alan DuBoff wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2007, Eric Boutilier wrote: As far as I'm concerned, the OGB _has_ put the new process in force. Correction Alan. That was not me, it was Keith saying that. Eric ___ opensolaris-di

[osol-discuss] Links to rollup reports

2007-05-31 Thread Eric Boutilier
Here are links to the latest batch of overview reports (05/01 - 05/15). You can also receive them by subscribing to the RSS feed: http://del.icio.us/rss/bootblog/oss:rollups Or bookmarking the URL: http://del.icio.us/bootblog/oss:rollups clearview-discuss 05/01 - 05/15 h

[osol-discuss] Overview (rollup) of recent activity on opensolaris-discuss

2007-05-31 Thread Eric Boutilier
12 shaybery at gmail.com (shay) 12 dougs at truemail.co.th (doug scott) 11 eric.boutilier at sun.com (eric boutilier) 11 wp at hawaiilinux.us (w. wayne liauh) 11 artem.kachitchkin at sun.com (artem kachitchkine) 10 moinak.ghosh

[osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-31 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Thu, 31 May 2007, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 03:50:07AM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: Twice this month, for the creation of new projects, I posted the following: "Also copying OGB... FYI, we're moving ahead with with the setup of this project und

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-31 Thread Eric Boutilier
+1. I'm 100% in the camp with those who hold the views expressed in this message (and, of course, those expressed in James' message subsequent to this one). Eric On Thu, 31 May 2007, James Carlson wrote: John Plocher writes: Keith M Wesolowski wrote: If you want to create an OpenSolaris refer

[osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-31 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 30 May 2007, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 06:57:32PM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2007, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:41:52AM +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: The process requires that this be sent to one or more community groups

[osol-discuss] Links to rollup reports

2007-05-31 Thread Eric Boutilier
Here are links to the batch of overview reports that were just posted. You can also receive them by subscribing to the RSS feed: http://del.icio.us/rss/bootblog/oss:rollups Or bookmarking the URL: http://del.icio.us/bootblog/oss:rollups clearview-discuss 04/16 - 04/30 http

[osol-discuss] Overview (rollup) of recent activity on opensolaris-discuss (04/16 - 04/30)

2007-05-30 Thread Eric Boutilier
For background on what this is, see: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=24416#24416 http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=25200#25200 = opensolaris-discuss 04/16 - 04/30 = Size of all threads du

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-30 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 30 May 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: I know we approved it... I take it that means either I missed something (if so, help please) or the OGB is behind on publishing meeting minutes... Eric ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-dis

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal - (what is/was Indiana)

2007-05-30 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 30 May 2007, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:41:52AM +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: The process requires that this be sent to one or more community groups for sponsorship consideration... I don't agree. Here's how I'd put it: "The almost-but-not-quite-yet OGB blessed p

[osol-discuss] Re: [discuss] Project Proposal: Emulex Fibre Channel Device Driver

2007-05-30 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Dave. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. Eric On Fri, 25 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Summary: Provide source code for the Emulex Fibre Channel device driver that operates in the Leadville environment. Overview: We propose the creation of a new

[osol-discuss] Re: Tonight, Project Indiana,

2007-05-30 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Tue, 29 May 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Gueven Bay wrote: So, the presentation was held. All the people there learned what Project Indiana is. Can someone write in some short sentences what Mr. Murdock told you,please? ... The core draft of their idea, which they plan to refine with com

[osol-discuss] Re: Where is the OpenSolaris distro of OpenSolaris?

2007-05-29 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Tue, 29 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Coopersmith wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does the OGB have any plans for when the first release of OpenSolaris from the OpenSolaris community will be made? No, but the opensolaris-ma

[osol-discuss] Re: Proposal for Community - Port OpenSolaris to System z

2007-05-24 Thread Eric Boutilier
Neale -- Do you want to be set up with a project space? --Eric ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: Proposal for Community - Port OpenSolaris to System z

2007-05-22 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Neale Ferguson wrote: It will be a project as well but it's my understanding that projects now exist within communities, so this is the 1st step. Hi Neale, There will probably be a new Community Group (CG) called Platform Ports that this project is perfect for. (*big* +1

[osol-discuss] Re: Community designed reference distro (Was: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like)

2007-05-22 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Tue, 22 May 2007, James Carlson wrote: ... The implication of what Ian has been suggesting is that this new distribution will essentially have Major release binding. All options are open, and what we had thought of as legacy interfaces preserved for compatibility (such as default "df" output

[osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-22 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Tue, 22 May 2007, Ian Murdock wrote: On 5/22/07, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007, Ian Murdock wrote: > On 5/21/07, Brian Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I don't think one distro can be all things to all >> people. > > A

[osol-discuss] Community designed reference distro (Was: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like)

2007-05-22 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Thu, 17 May 2007, James Carlson wrote: Ian Murdock writes: (And, once again, I'm not sure I see anything here that isn't fixed with a "Solaris classic" environment.) Do we force future project teams to test in both environments? Eh? Ian -- if the above is a valid question, then my brain i

[osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-21 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 21 May 2007, Ian Murdock wrote: On 5/21/07, Brian Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't think one distro can be all things to all people. Agreed. That's why there's still plenty of room for other distros, regardless of what Sun does. Ian, you aren't gonna win this one by trying to

[osol-discuss] Re: initial draft 1-pager for Indiana (was Sun to make Solaris more Linux like)

2007-05-21 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 16 May 2007, John Plocher wrote: ... ... Technical Description My list: packaging, installation, GNU userland alongside "Solaris classic userland", and laptop support (see what I mean that there are already people working on these things?). Indeed. Deja vu

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: OpenSolaris Programming Contest in China Academic Developers

2007-05-21 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Joey. I'll contact you offline to get you setup. Also copying OGB... FYI, we're moving ahead with with the setup of this project under the old process. The 2-business-day discussion period has been satisfied, it has sponsorship of the Academic and Research Community, and has been seconded

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Virtual Network Machines

2007-05-21 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Nicolas. I'll contact you offline to get you setup. Also copying OGB... FYI, we're moving ahead with with the setup of this project under the old process. The 2-business-day discussion period has been satisfied, it has sponsorship of the Networking Community, and has been seconded. Eric

[osol-discuss] Re: [discuss] BeleniX meets Indiana (Was: About Project Indiana)

2007-05-15 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I realize the Indiana Project is in the early requirements stage, nevertheless I think it would be _ver

Re: [osol-discuss] BeleniX meets Indiana (Was: About Project Indiana)

2007-05-14 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 14 May 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I realize the Indiana Project is in the early requirements stage, nevertheless I think it would be _very_ useful to note the alignment between where the Indiana project appears to be headed and the

[osol-discuss] BeleniX meets Indiana (Was: About Project Indiana)

2007-05-14 Thread Eric Boutilier
I realize the Indiana Project is in the early requirements stage, nevertheless I think it would be _very_ useful to note the alignment between where the Indiana project appears to be headed and the design goals of the BeleniX OpenSolaris developer community. Some very recent news and related disc

[osol-discuss] Re: Project proposal: full FMA support for generic x86 machine-check architecture

2007-05-14 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Gavin. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. On Thu, 10 May 2007, Gavin Maltby wrote: The Project This project proposes improving the generic support of x86 CPUs that implement the Machine Check Architecture (MCA). It also proposes to cr

[osol-discuss] Re: Sun to make Solaris more Linux like

2007-05-14 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Fri, 11 May 2007, Bryan Cantrill wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:54:17AM -0700, John Mark Walker wrote: Coming from a Linux background, I don't expect OpenSolaris to look and feel like Linux, but I do expect the OpenSolaris community to actively engage with people like me. My impression is

[osol-discuss] Re: Project proposal: full FMA support for generic x86 machine-check architecture

2007-05-10 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Thu, 10 May 2007, Eric Boutilier wrote: ... Good point. Even though that document is not official policy yet, it's really close. So in addition, I'd like to suggest that Gavin work with the FM Community Group leaders to pull together the information outlined in section 2.2. Just

[osol-discuss] Re: New project: JPack - install your software easily !

2007-05-10 Thread Eric Boutilier
It should probably be pointed out here that Michal is announcing (I'm pretty sure) a development effort, JPack, that exists within the JDS Project (that exists within the opensolaris.org Desktop Community Group); as opposed to seeking official opensolaris.org Project status for JPack. (Sorry to

[osol-discuss] Re: Project proposal: full FMA support for generic x86 machine-check architecture

2007-05-10 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Thu, 10 May 2007, James Carlson wrote: Gavin Maltby writes: The Project This project proposes improving the generic support of x86 CPUs that implement the Machine Check Architecture (MCA). It *whew* PS/2 flashback ... +1 on the idea, but the currently proposed project cre

[osol-discuss] Re: Change charter of OpenSolaris.org to more closely

2007-05-08 Thread Eric Boutilier
MC wrote: ... OpenSolaris is Solaris code that Sun has made open source... I'd be more inclined to say it like this: OpenSolaris, on June 15th 2005, was Solaris code that Sun made open source, thereafter OpenSolaris is OpenSolaris Community code[1]. Eric 1. As codified by the charter + cons

[osol-discuss] Re: Change charter of OpenSolaris.org to more closely align with reality

2007-05-07 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 7 May 2007, Brian Gupta wrote: What is OpenSolaris? Reality: (My observation, a bit cynical) - OpenSolaris is Sun's Solaris development team's project site. The process has been opened up to the public, to expand the Solaris developer community to include unpaid volunteers. (unpa

[osol-discuss] Re: Bittorrent client for Solaris

2007-05-07 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Fri, 4 May 2007, Cyril Plisko wrote: On 5/3/07, Bart Smaalders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So Given the difficulties of incorporating the swt libraries needed to make Azureus work on Solaris, what other BitTorrent client should Solaris incorporate? I'd say rtorrent[1]. It is my favorit

[osol-discuss] Re: [Fwd: Community creation]

2007-05-03 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 2 May 2007, Nicolas Droux wrote: ... What is the current process to get a new community started? Should I go with what is described in the communities page, or is a new process required now that the constitution has been approved. Any info or ptr will be appreciated. Thanks! Nicolas

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Sensor Abstraction Layer for the Solaris Fault Manager

2007-04-30 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Cindi. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, cindi wrote: The Project This project proposes extensions to the fault management architecture (FMA) to support a sensor abstraction layer for the collection and analysis of sensor based telemetry

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: SAM-QFS

2007-04-27 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Ted. You have seconds, and the Storage Community Group confirmed sponsorship. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. Eric On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Ted Pogue wrote: Project Overview: I propose the creation of a project on opensolaris.org, to bring to the community Solaris host-

[osol-discuss] Re: Proposal for IPoIB performance project

2007-04-27 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Nitin. Your proposal has been seconded, and the Networking Community confirmed sponsorship. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. Eric On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Nitin Hande wrote: Overview: IP on Infiniband (IPoIB) is a GLDv2 based driver implemented as per IETF RFC 4392 "IP over In

[osol-discuss] Links to rollup reports

2007-04-26 Thread Eric Boutilier
Here are links to the latest batch of overview reports (rollups). You can also receive them by subscribing to the RSS feed: http://del.icio.us/rss/bootblog/oss:rollups or bookmarking the URL: http://del.icio.us/bootblog/oss:rollups clearview-discuss 04/01 - 04/15 http://mail

[osol-discuss] Links to rollup reports (belated)

2007-04-26 Thread Eric Boutilier
This is a belated "Links to rollup reports" post. It corresponds to the batch of overview reports posted a couple weeks that covered the 2nd half of March. The current one is coming next. -- clearview-discuss 03/16 - 03/31 http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/clearview-discuss/2007-April/00091

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: defunct communities

2007-04-26 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Schilling wrote: Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 25 Apr 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: I don't see them here though... http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=79 They were sent to just the community leaders

[osol-discuss] Overview (rollup) of recent activity on opensolaris-discuss

2007-04-24 Thread Eric Boutilier
25 alan.coopersmith at sun.com (alan coopersmith) 24 darren.moffat at sun.com (darren j moffat) 19 dclarke at blastwave.org (dennis clarke) 15 eric.boutilier at sun.com (eric boutilier) 14 tripivceta at hotmail.com (unix admin) 14 bd

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-24 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Alan DuBoff wrote: ... If Chung wants to help, he should get involved and try to fix it... +1000 ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: was something else, now Packaging

2007-04-23 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Chung Hang Christopher Chan wrote: If Chung wants to help, he should get involved and try to fix it. I have started trying to compile apt and dpkg under Sun Studio 11... Chung, Just so I'm clear, the Nexenta design philosophy is (as with many other people) one of the t

Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris parted

2007-04-16 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, sujay wrote: Greetings, We have ported parted :) Nice! ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Re: [opensolaris-discuss] Upnp server to solaris

2007-04-12 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, homerun wrote: Hi zfs makes solaris now good choise to store media content. could it be possible to get as part of "freeware" and integrated to /usr/sfw - tree some Upnp mediaserver. i have found two media servers that runs on linux - MediaTomb http://mediatomb.cc - GMediaS

Re: [osol-discuss] Project Proposal: Tesla, Solaris Enhanced Power Management

2007-04-10 Thread Eric Boutilier
Sorry for the accidental Cc to opensolaris-discuss. <:-( On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Eric Boutilier wrote: Hi Eric We need a few items to initiate your project: - A short name for the URL. This is generally one word or abbreviation (e.g tesla), or two words separated by a hyphen. - A one-l

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Tesla, Solaris Enhanced Power Management

2007-04-10 Thread Eric Boutilier
Hi Eric We need a few items to initiate your project: - A short name for the URL. This is generally one word or abbreviation (e.g tesla), or two words separated by a hyphen. - A one-line title (Tesla?) - A descriptive sentence or short paragraph (a few sentences) explaining the project or

[osol-discuss] Re: [opensolaris-discuss] Project Proposal: Tesla, Solaris Enhanced Power Management

2007-04-10 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Eric. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. EricB On Sat, 7 Apr 2007, Eric Saxe wrote: I'd like to propose a project to provide an enhanced platform independent power management architecture...to be known as "Project Tesla". From a high level, this project woul

[osol-discuss] Re: [opensolaris-discuss] Project Proposal : Solaris Open Fabrics User Verbs /API Support

2007-04-10 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Pramod. Your proposal has been seconded. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. Eric On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Pramod Badripra Gunjikar wrote: Hello, I would like to propose an open solaris project for : Solaris Open Fabrics User Verbs / API Support Open Fabrics User Verbs / API is

[osol-discuss] Overview (rollup) of recent activity on opensolaris-discuss

2007-04-10 Thread Eric Boutilier
g) 23 binarycrusader at gmail.com (shawn walker) 18 eric.boutilier at sun.com (eric boutilier) 17 rlhamil at smart.net (richard l. hamilton) 16 dclarke at blastwave.org (dennis clarke) 15 mb1x at gmx.com (martin bochnig) 14 wp at hawaiilinux.

[osol-discuss] Re: PROJECT PROPOSAL - Tadpole platform support

2007-04-09 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Garrett. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Garrett D'Amore wrote: I would like to propose the creation of a project to incorporate various platform specific support for Tadpole platforms into OpenSolaris. This would include core platform

Re: [osol-discuss] Project proposal : busybox-ksh93

2007-04-04 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Shivakumar. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. Eric On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, gns wrote: Project proposal : busybox-ksh93 Busybox on OpenSolaris is about providing a busybox equivalent for OpenSolaris. This will help in making possible small sized distros and dist

[osol-discuss] Re: [discuss] PROJECT PROPOSAL - CPK Cryptosystem

2007-04-04 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, William. Your proposal has been seconded. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. Eric On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Guan Zhi (William) wrote: PROJECT PROPOSAL - CPK Cryptosystem I would like to propose a "CPK cryptosystem" project to implement CPK (Combined Public Key) algorithm on OpenSola

Re: [osol-discuss] ON C-Team or how to make the process more open

2007-04-03 Thread Eric Boutilier
Eric Boutilier wrote: Re-thinking this... OSNet maybe needs to be designated special status in the OpenSolaris Community/Project structure. It's "neither fish nor fowl". We don't want to encourage forking at the core (kernel) level, therefore we don't need an umbrella k

Re: [osol-discuss] ON C-Team or how to make the process more open

2007-04-03 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: Eric Boutilier wrote: Re-thinking this... OSNet maybe needs to be designated special status in the OpenSolaris Community/Project structure. It's "neither fish nor fowl". We don't want to encourage forking at the core (kernel) level

Re: [osol-discuss] ON C-Team or how to make the process more open

2007-04-03 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Eric Boutilier wrote: On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Mark J. Nelson wrote: 1. Rename OpenSolaris ON Community to "OSNet" This change is actually an artifact of the community/project shared namespace on os.o. It's a confusing annoyance, but really this community

Re: [osol-discuss] ON C-Team or how to make the process more open

2007-04-03 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Stephen Lau wrote: Mark J. Nelson wrote: 7. I haven't figured out what will be needed in the way of an on-discuss mailing list. We traditionally have not had such a beast inside Sun, though on-all has occasionally been [discuss]used in this fashion. Anybody got an

Re: [osol-discuss] ON C-Team or how to make the process more open

2007-04-03 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 2 Apr 2007, Mark J. Nelson wrote: 1. Rename OpenSolaris ON Community to "OSNet" This change is actually an artifact of the community/project shared namespace on os.o. It's a confusing annoyance, but really this community should be where the on-gate project lives, and that project

[osol-discuss] Re: [discuss] Project proposal: Input Method Project

2007-04-02 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, Yong. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Yong Sun wrote: I'd like to propose a project about Input Method for OpenSolaris. The scope of this project would be: 1. To support IIIMF (which is currently the defualt IM framework on Solaris) on

[osol-discuss] Links to rollup reports

2007-03-27 Thread Eric Boutilier
Here are links to the latest batch of overview reports (rollups). You can also receive them by subscribing to the RSS feed: http://del.icio.us/rss/bootblog/oss:rollups or bookmarking the URL: http://del.icio.us/bootblog/oss:rollups cab-discuss 03/01 - 03/15 http://mail.opens

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: NWS (Network Storage)

2007-03-26 Thread Eric Boutilier
Thanks, John. You have seconds. I'll contact you offline to get you set up. On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, John Forte wrote: The NWS project consists of drivers, libraries and utilities in support of storage interconnect technologies including both Fibre Channel and iSCSI. The NWS project source code ha

[osol-discuss] Overview (rollup) of recent activity on opensolaris-discuss

2007-03-22 Thread Eric Boutilier
alan.coopersmith at sun.com (alan coopersmith) 22 james.d.carlson at sun.com (james carlson) 18 mb1x at gmx.com (martin bochnig) 17 darren.moffat at sun.com (darren j moffat) 17 eric.boutilier at sun.com (eric boutilier) 14 binarycrusader at gma

[osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling

2007-03-22 Thread Eric Boutilier
[Convention-aware me: "I'm sorry here for following up to my own post." Actual Me: "Why should I be?"] Previously, I wrote: Previously, Dave Miner wrote: At the risk of repeating myself for about the 50th time in the past year, I'd encourage these packaging-related discussions to occur with th

[osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling

2007-03-21 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Dave Miner wrote: ... Hey, if it would help get people directed in the right place I'd split off a packaging-discuss list for the SVR4 packaging project, but I tend to doubt it would have any real effect, since these conversations (as was the case here) all too often are

[osol-discuss] Re: blastwave package handling

2007-03-21 Thread Eric Boutilier
At the risk of repeating myself for about the 50th time in the past year, I'd encourage these packaging-related discussions to occur with the community list specifically devoted to them, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those in the community with ideas can actually start working on them, since the packaging

[osol-discuss] Re: apt-get functionality (Was joining Sun)

2007-03-21 Thread Eric Boutilier
Would it help cost-wise to consider migrating some things? I would think at least some of your apps/DB/mail systems could use the HW/SW infrastructure and bandwidth that opensoloaris.org provides... Re-reading this, and based some of the darker days this this list has seen, I now fear a reply l

[osol-discuss] Re: apt-get functionality (Was joining Sun)

2007-03-21 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007, Erast Benson wrote: On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 08:18 -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: But that just brings us back to Joe's original point: Isn't that Nexenta? Note the Nexenta project is by all rights and intentions (Erast, correct me if I'm wrong) a projec

[osol-discuss] apt-get functionality (Was joining Sun)

2007-03-21 Thread Eric Boutilier
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Alan DuBoff wrote: On Monday 19 March 2007 05:13 pm, David Lloyd wrote: Joe, Indeed, apt-get for Solaris would be quite useful :P Isn't that Nexenta? Had to say it. I don't want the Ubuntu Userland on an OpenSolaris code base. I'd prefer a distribution as close to Sun'

[osol-discuss] Re: Project Proposal: Next Generation Web Stack

2007-03-20 Thread Eric Boutilier
The sfwnv-discuss list might be a better venue for this discussion. Some of the people subscribed there might not be subscribed here. Eric ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org

[osol-discuss] Q & A's harvested from my outbox

2007-03-19 Thread Eric Boutilier
This is not an FAQ -- official, unofficial, authorized, unauthorized, or any such. It's a just some questions and answers about OpenSolaris project management that I've harvested from my outbox and cleaned up a bit. Comments welcome. [This message is cross-posted to opensolaris-discuss and websit

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