Jim Walker: Sun Software Engineer

The Test Development Project page on opensolaris.org has been established at:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/test-dev/

In the next few weeks we will be adding more content, including:

- Solaris Test Collection source and package repository
- Open HA Cluster Test source and package repository
- Test Framework and Test Tools information pages

And, that's just the beginning...

To get involved with the OpenSolaris test development discussion, you can subscribe to the test-dev discussion list at:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/test-dev/discussions/

We look forward to having more contributors to the project.

Cheers,

Initial Test Development Project Team

Joel Buckley
Thelan Nguyen
Clarence Nie
U.V. Ravindra
Jim Walker
Sean Wilcox

My wife Suzanne took this picture while we were in Tokyo visiting the National Museum. I think it is nice, and the artist approved.

OpenSolaris Developer Summit sweat shirt made it to the Great Wall today (on my back).

Visit the Testing Community for more information.

This months FROSUG (Front Range OpenSolaris User Group) meeting is on Thursday, September 27th 2007. I will give a presentation on OpenSolaris Testing.

Along with that we will have people on hand to help you install Solaris or help with any issues you may have.

! FREE OpenSolaris Starter Kits & Solaris Express Developer Edition DVD's !

About the presentation:
The OpenSolaris Testing presentation will discuss some of the current OpenSolaris Testing Community initiatives, including open source test suites, OpenSolaris Self-Service Testing, the OpenSolaris test farm, and how OpenSolaris developers and test engineers can use and contribute to these resources to help ensure the quality of the OpenSolaris code base. The presentation will include live demos of the Self-Service Testing application, the test farm reservation tool and remote testing using test farm machines. In addition, Jim will give a short overview of the Mercurial source control management system used by OpenSolaris.
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/testing/
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/

The presentation will be posted on http://frosug.org prior to the meeting.

About our presenter:
Jim Walker is a Staff Software Engineer at Sun Microsystems and a member of the Solaris Quality Engineering organization. Jim joined Sun in 2002, and was the test lead for UFS, Default Logging, Multi-Terabyte UFS and the ZFS projects, and is currently the test lead for OpenSolaris and the SCM-Migration project. He is also one of the rotating leaders of FROSUG. Jim studied Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Purdue University and Computer Science and Business Management at the University of Colorado. He has traveled extensively and enjoys his home in Boulder, Colorado with his lovely and wonderful wife Suzanne.

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Meeting Details:

When: Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Times:
6:00pm - 6:30pm Doors open and Pizza
6:30pm - 8:30pm OpenSolaris Testing

Where:
Sun Broomfield Campus
Building 1 - Conference Center
500 Eldorado Blvd.
Broomfield, CO 80021

Dialin: 866-545-5220
Access Code: 9303067

The meeting is free and open to the public.

Pizza and soft drinks will be served at the beginning of the meeting. Please RSVP to rsvp (AT) frosug (DOT) org in order to help us plan for food and setup access to the Sun campus.

We hope to see you there!
Thanks,
FROSUG

Information on this month's Front Range OpenSolaris User Group meeting has been posted at: http://frosug.org

Here's some pictures from last nights FROSUG meeting. We celebrated the 2-year Anniversary of OpenSolaris by having some cake before the meeting presentation. It was gooood cake...


After the festivities, Bonnie Corwin, the OpenSolaris Engineering Manager, presented "OpenSolaris: Still in a Storm". Who's title is borrowed from Jim Grisanzio's "OpenSolaris: in a Storm" presentation, which discussed how fast Sun and the OpenSolaris Engineering team moved to make OpenSolaris a reality. Bonnie indicated that her team is still moving fast. The presentation covered what the OpenSolaris Engineering Team does, gave an OpenSolaris Anniversary update (OpenSolaris at Two) and talked about where OpenSolaris is going in the future. The presentation slides along with a recording is posted at frosug.org. This was another great FROSUG presenation.

This month's Front Range OpenSolaris User Group meeting is on Thursday, June 28, 2007. Bonnie Corwin will give an OpenSolaris Engineering Update. In addition, we will be celebrating the 2-year OpenSolaris anniversary!

!! FREE OpenSolaris Starter Kits and Solaris Express Developer Edition DVDs. !!

About the presentation:
The OpenSolaris Engineering Team Update will include information on the following areas:
- New Open Code/Communities/Projects/Contributions
- New Country Portals
- New OGB Processes
- Source Code Management: moving to Mercurial
- Website: operational infrastructure and open sourcing application code
The presentation will be posted on http://frosug.org prior to the meeting.

About our presenter:
Bonnie Corwin is a Senior Engineering Manager at Sun Microsystems and the OpenSolaris Engineering Team manager. She has worked at Sun for 15 years in various software engineering and management roles. The OpenSolaris Engineering Team investigated the feasibility of opening the Solaris source code, ran the pre-launch OpenSolaris Pilot program and executed the launch of OpenSolaris. It currently manages the OpenSolaris site infrastructure including site hosting operations and website applications and supports key community activities including the OpenSolaris governance process and elections, OpenSolaris code contributions, bug tracking, source code management, country portals, the OpenSolaris Starter Kit and conferences.

Meeting Details:

When: Thursday, June 28, 2007
Times:
6:00pm - 6:30pm Doors open and Pizza
6:30pm - 6:45pm OpenSolaris 2-year Anniversary Celebration
6:45pm - 8:30pm OpenSolaris Engineering Update
Where:
Sun Broomfield Campus
Building 1 - Conference Center
500 Eldorado Blvd.
Broomfield, CO 80021

Dialin: 866-545-5220
Access Code: 9303067

The meeting is free and open to the public.

Pizza and soft drinks will be served at the beginning of the meeting. Please RSVP to rsvp(AT)frosug.org in order to help us plan for food and setup access to the Sun campus.

We hope to see you there!
Thanks,
FROSUG

Future Meeting Plans:

If you have ideas for topics or have a topic you would like to present, send them to: ug-frosug(AT)opensolaris(DOT)org.