Archive for May 7th, 2008
OpenSolaris build support landed in Songbird!
woot woot poot poot!
preed just landed (here, and here) alfred’s last two remaining patches for bug 7800: Songbird would be even more cross-platform with OpenSolaris/Solaris support!
so as of now, OpenSolaris support is a first-class citisen in the Songbird SVN repo. while we won’t be able provide QA coverage, i’m bringing up a machine here with OpenSolaris 2008.05 that i hope to turn into a buildbot so we can at least monitor and know when checkins break the OpenSolaris build.
needless to say, i’m pretty psyched at my two favourite open source projects getting it on. 
but what’s really cool is go take a look at bug 7800… i mentioned this at our session at the DevSummit on Sunday: this was a fantastic example of an external contributor working directly via forums and via our Bugzilla, getting code review, updating patches, etc. etc. the list of patches and comments is probably our longest yet actually.
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OSDevCon schedule up!
Dirk just mailed out the notifications of acceptance to the various speakers for OSDevCon, and posted the schedule up on the website.
This was my first experience being on a program committee to help select speakers, and I have to say it was fun. It was great to see submissions from so many people I know from the community, and there were definitely some hard selections to be made (I think we had FOUR people submit IPS/packaging proposals!!)
Anyway, glad to see a good mix of some knowledgable Sun folks, as well as some focus on other aspects of OpenSolaris that don’t get enough attention IMHO (Testing & Localisation/Translation).
Plus… boat trip! Seriously! That would be the only conference I’ve ever seen with a boat trip + dinner. I’m jealous I can’t make it. 
Anyway, congratulations to all the speakers.
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