Miscellany
I've been heads down helping iron out / coordinate details of the upcoming November release and realized it's been quite awhile since I've blogged. So, here are some random thoughts on what's been going on:
- I've just recently opened up my bi-weekly OpenSolaris docs meeting to the non-Sun community. Small participation thus far, but I believe the intent is important in building the community.
- I participated in some mentoring meetings in Menlo Park with some very neat presentations from various Sun luminaries and folks doing interesting things from many corners of the organization. I really appreciated the opportunity to listen and talk to folks like Mike Lehman, Greg Papadopoulos, Aisling MacRunnels, et al.
- I've been wringing my hands about wiki use, with lack of a wiki on OpenSolaris.org site until its xWiki implementation is in place. For the short-term, the genunix site seems appropriate, given its purpose and current use by the community, but wikis.sun.com offers some features that simplify translation/localization for our G11N team and allow user interaction features like commenting and PDF output, so we're going to go that route for the short term.
- After spending some time with David Comay (2008.11 technical lead) while in California a few weeks ago, I'm intrigued by the idea of turning our docs consolidation tarball into an IPS package. Something to investigate further after this November release wraps up.
- I posted "who is the OpenSolaris user" strawman on some discussion lists and sparked a pretty interesting (at least to me) discussion. I think, in general, my strawman held up, but there was a great deal of detail and fine tuning from the discussion.
- Oh, and I bought a really cool guitar. :-)
I'm sure there's more, but that's a quick brain dump.
