that’s whacked

What does football have in common with OpenSolaris?

Wednesday, Aug 15. 2007  –  Category: Football, OpenSolaris

…. they both give me an excuse to go to Boston.

I’m going to Boston for Tech Days, which works out great for the September 12th Mexico vs. Brasil international friendly match that will be played while I’m there.

I’m psyched – I’ve never seen Brasil play live before

Compiz on Solaris goodness

Tuesday, Aug 14. 2007  –  Category: OpenSolaris

Wobbly windows wock my world.

Okay, so it’s a little bit forced alliteration. Whatever. I’ve been happy with Compiz running on Solaris on my desktop for a while… it’s been quite nice with the NVidia card & dual-head

This weekend I installed build 70 on my Sony VAIO TX laptop and with the help of Erwann, I was able to get it up and running on my lappie with its built-in Intel i945GMS. The fan is definitely running more now, but the graphics eye-candy is pretty amazing.

Like I said. Wobbly windows. I’m easily amused.

Update: Here is my xorg.conf that should contain the necessary lines to get it up and running. This is from my Sony VAIO TX.

SCM Migration KTD

Tuesday, Aug 14. 2007  –  Category: OpenSolaris

On Monday, Mike and I had our KTD (kernel technical discussion – series of presentations/lectures/whatnot given by various folks though typically kernel peeps to the rest of the kernel group) on the impending SCM migration of ON from TeamWare to Mercurial.

It was a pretty packed crowd… the room was full with people standing out the room and into the hallway, and apparently all 150 of the phone lines were occupied. It was great to see that people actually care and are interested in how their development process will change as we migrate to Mercurial.

… and not a single person (despite spoken threats) brought rotten tomatoes to throw at us (and here I wore my red t-shirt for nothing)…

I need to fixup a couple of bugs in the slides, but I’ll try to have the slides posted externally tomorrow sometime. I also plan on posting my transcript of the Q&A session once I hear the recording.

Thanks to the scm-migration-dev crew for reviewing the slides, and Bonnie for writing down the questions people asked us so we can make a follow-up slidedeck.

wii

Saturday, Aug 4. 2007  –  Category: Musings

holy crap.

the wii is crack.

no time, no blog, but lots of SCM

Friday, Aug 3. 2007  –  Category: OpenSolaris

i notice a lot of my recent posts have been short, with not much content… certainly not much OpenSolaris content (and no, Simon’s BOF poster doesn’t count)

most of what i’ve been up to lately has been hacking away at SCM Migration with Rich and Mike. we’ve made good progress and are continuing to plug away at the bugs and RFEs we’ve got filed.

so here is a brief summary of what we’re up to, and where we currently are. as a group, we’re targeting an initial phase putback to ON with all our tools changes (e.g. everything under usr/src/tools) that will enable them to work with Mercurial repositories whilst continuing to work with Teamware workspaces. this first phase putback will let us work on migrating SFW (which shares many tools and development processes with ON, but at a smaller scale) first. following that, we’ll flip the “big switch” to throw the Mercurial ON in place of the Teamware ON.

so that’s our plan, here’s who’s involved and what they are up to individually (to the best of my knowledge):

• Jim Walker has joined as our test guru and is helping us put together a test plan for making sure all our stuff does what we claim it does. highest priority obviously at the moment given our initial phase plan is to make sure our stuff is not breaking Teamware workspaces (i.e. onnv-gate)

• Michelle Olson is our docs wiz who is helping us coordinate all our training materials and docs so we can get everyone up to speed in the brave new world of Mercurial.

• Rich Lowe is doing his best to make sure I’m not a liar when I say Cadmium will offer all the functionality wx had to offer as well as offering countless code reviews for me.

• Mike Kupfer just finished up the wx2hg tool (yes, you too can convert your wx managed Teamware workspace to Mercurial), and has helped with tons of bug management, KTD outline, etc.

• I’ve mostly been working on various bugs, features, porting, etc. involved in tools like findunref, webrev, nightly, etc. This week has mostly been working on the KTD that Mike and I are giving on the 13th.

So I think that’s a quick rundown of what we’ve been up to. I’m really psyched to be making progress on this, and getting closer to actually getting our bits into ON. We’ve had a lot of projects (Duckwater, Tesla, Latency Reduction, ZFS Crypto) that have embraced Mercurial early and started working with our tools. Darren provided evidence that we haven’t completely botched Teamware functionality today, so I’m pretty excited about that.

Getting over this hurdle will put us a significant step closer to open development. It’ll be a bit of a bumpy ride for people to get used to Mercurial after years and years of Teamware, but it’ll be worth it in the long run. For any Sun folks, come to the KTD Mike and I are giving on 8/13 and we’ll give the full run down of how this will go and some intro to the new development world of Mercurial.