Today we released the development zone interface and opened access to the OpenSolaris Test Farm to all OpenSolaris users.
Wednesday Jan 07, 2009
Tuesday Apr 22, 2008
With over 3200 people in attendance, Sun Tech Days 2008 in St. Petersburg, Russia was another successful developer event, and I had the pleasure of working with my colleagues from the local Sun office. It was nice to return to St. Petersburg. I visited Leningrad in December 1988, so I noticed a lot of change. The city is definitely the Paris of the north. I gave the OpenSolaris Testing and OpenStorage for OpenSolaris presentations during OpenSolaris Day on April 4th. I gave the presentations in the main hall where the keynotes where given and had a great audience of over 150 people. Alexander Belokrylov did a great job with the demos, and I enjoyed engaging with the audience and got cheers everytime I spoke a little Russian. I have never seen better questions, and we had more questions than time after both presentations.
In addition, I supported Jim Hughes, with the ZFS demo during the Solaris Track keynote on April 3rd. Here's a picture of Jim, Kirill Nikonchuk, who setup the hardware and me the night before. We had some USB issues with a PC clone, but once we switch to a Sun Ultra 40 everything worked. This picture was taken unattended by timer from the keynote podium. Also here's a pointer to the ZFS is Smashing Baby video on YouTube.
Later in the day after the keynote, my wife Suzanne and I climbed up to the colonnade on St. Isaac's Cathedral to enjoy the view. Here's a picture of me in a Z-DAY tshirt, which highlights Halloween 2005, when zfs was first integrated into Solaris.
In addition, I supported Jim Hughes, with the ZFS demo during the Solaris Track keynote on April 3rd. Here's a picture of Jim, Kirill Nikonchuk, who setup the hardware and me the night before. We had some USB issues with a PC clone, but once we switch to a Sun Ultra 40 everything worked. This picture was taken unattended by timer from the keynote podium. Also here's a pointer to the ZFS is Smashing Baby video on YouTube.
Later in the day after the keynote, my wife Suzanne and I climbed up to the colonnade on St. Isaac's Cathedral to enjoy the view. Here's a picture of me in a Z-DAY tshirt, which highlights Halloween 2005, when zfs was first integrated into Solaris.
Friday Feb 29, 2008
Moinak Ghosh presented the OpenSolaris Testing
presentation at the Hyderabad Tech Days. Moinak is a great speaker and well know for his contributions to the BeleniX OpenSolaris distribution. I'm glad to get him to do the presentation.
Here's a blurb from Moinak:
"The presentation went well. I could manage the demos questions and all without exceeding the time limit. Murphy was not present in the room so I had zero problems with the demos :)
There were about 200 people in the room. I began my preso with questions like:
How many of you have seen or ever logged into a SPARC machine ?
A couple of hands.
How many have seen or logged into a 16-core 32G Opteron box ?
Just one hand raised.
How many would want access to such machines ?
All hands raised :)
So you need to become an OpenSolaris contributor and contribute fixes/enhancements ..."
Here's a blurb from Moinak:
"The presentation went well. I could manage the demos questions and all without exceeding the time limit. Murphy was not present in the room so I had zero problems with the demos :)
There were about 200 people in the room. I began my preso with questions like:
How many of you have seen or ever logged into a SPARC machine ?
A couple of hands.
How many have seen or logged into a 16-core 32G Opteron box ?
Just one hand raised.
How many would want access to such machines ?
All hands raised :)
So you need to become an OpenSolaris contributor and contribute fixes/enhancements ..."
Tuesday Feb 12, 2008
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
Friday Oct 19, 2007
Friday Sep 14, 2007
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
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
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