What am I up to these days?

Recently, I putback my last round of major bugfixes in my "traditional" area of expertise - procfs, libproc, mdb, etc. And since I'm not attached to any of the major S10 projects, I can actually pick and choose what to work on next. I have tons of projects I'd love to start, but I can't justify new projects so late in the release cycle. There are simply too many other things that need to be fixed first. The downside of choice is that eventually, word gets out that you have copious amounts of free time with only two months of development left in the release. I've basically been put up for auction, except the bidding price is always the same - though the work itself becomes the reward.

I've been spending quality time with our bug database, as well as entertaining offers from potential suitors. I've been pinch hitting on the amd64 project, helping out with greenline (SMF), and most recently signed up to help design and implement a new subsystem for ZFS. I'm also getting to play with cool things like ZFS on amd64: we're getting it up and running on some very cool (and super-secret) hardware that I unfortunately can't talk about. I'm learning about parts of Solaris that I never thought I'd have a chance to work with. It's all very exciting, but I will definitely be happy when S10 ships so I can get back to some personal projects that have been evolving in the depths of my mind. Stay tuned...

So, do I hear a hundred? How about two hundred?