Meddling in the Affairs of Wizards

Philosophy

I believe in open communication and open development.

Communication
Our (Sun's) communication with the OpenSolaris community has been poor. We need to be clearer about both making unilateral decisions (explaining why we decided whatever) and sharing information with the community in general. People who have been to any number of Solaris all-hands meetings in the last 11+ years can attest that I am one of the chief questioners, always trying to keep the lines of communication with management as open as possible.
Development
Solaris has been open source since 2005, but for it truly to flourish, it needs to have open development as well. The sponsor program has been a band-aid while we worked on opening up our tools and processes and moving our source repositories outside the firewall, all prerequisites for open development, but the community is thirsting for more, and we need to provide it. This in my view should be our #1 priority to both keep current community members interested and attract new community members. As ON tech lead, I have actively sought (and found) people to work on migrating our tools from being Teamware-based to being Mercurial-based, and I plan to continue driving both this migration, then the move of the ON source repository outside the firewall, then whatever else will be needed so we can have true open development.

Sun, December 1996 - present
- ON C-team tech lead, August 2007 - present: lead engineer for the ON consolidation, responsible for overseeing all changes made to the source base
- Network Auto-Magic (NWAM) project lead, February 2005 - August 2007: led story-boarding, requirements, architecture, design and implementation of Phase 0 and initial implementation of Phase 1.
- Zones development, April 2002 - February 2005: wrote zonecfg, libzonecfg, most of zoneadm and large parts of zoneadmd, plus worked on the booting sub-system; brought libtecla to Solaris for use in zonecfg.
- ON gatekeeper, October 1999 - April 2002: lead administrator of gate machines, also core C-team member, responsible for keeping up the quality of the ON consolidation
- Sendmail, December 1996 - October 1999 (still have responsibility for it, but since late 1999 it has been ¼ time or less): upgraded ancient Solaris version, kept Solaris up-to-date, eventually deprecated all old Sun hacks or got them integrated into the sendmail.org version. Contributed many enhancements, including anti-spam features and got Solaris to a unified config file. FAQ maintainer since 1997.
InReference, August 1995 - November 1996
Wrote a Usenet search engine (code: Python and C).
HP, June 1989 - August 1995
Supported various network applications and protocols on MPE and HP-UX. Added 8BITMIME support to sendmail, offered patch to Eric Allman.