Since Cyril Plisko managed to discover that I had a blog (despite my inability to post on even a semi-regular basis), and linked to it in a recent article, I thought it would be nice to at least mention what I've been working on.

I've been watching OpenSolaris since hearing about it from Dan Price and others at Sun's Immersion Week (an internal conference for Sun's customer engineers) in November 2004. I was very interested in the Power PC porting effort (aka Polaris) since it was an unparalleled opportunity to really learn about the guts of Solaris in a unique way.

Since that time, I haven't been that active. It's hard to pipe up in a discussion of operating system aracana when the people who wrote the thing are on the same list, and I can't say that anything in my background would qualify me to port an operating system. However, an opportunity came about when a discussion about wikis and ticketing software arose on the Polaris mailing list.

I volunteered to implement the Trac software on one of Dennis Clarke's Blastwave servers and after a month or so of what seems like constant collaboration with Cyril Plisko and Dennis, the Polaris Trac site was launched late last week.

I've found doing this work to be a fufilling way of contributing to the open source effort while waiting for the project to evolve to the point where I can pitch in there as well.

Thanks for the opportunity.