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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.

Add comment May 7th, 2008

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.

2 comments May 7th, 2008

4 singing birds

At the OpenSolaris Developer Summit this past weekend, I had the chance to present Songbird. We thought it would be cool to basically do a group talk, so I enlisted the help of Albert Lee, Alfred Peng, and Ken Mays (all members of both the OpenSolaris community and the Songbird community) and the four of us gave a talk & demo.

(with many thanks to Jim Grisanzio for his excellent photo-taking skills and camera)

Add comment May 5th, 2008

for the last time, i’m not at Sun anymore

From Dave Neary’s nicely written blog… to Theodore, I’m not at Sun anymore.

I left 7 months ago, while still in my first term on the OGB, and I was re-elected as a community member who does not work for Sun.

I did drink the kool-aid for 4.5 years… but I’d like to think I still think for myself and have independent thoughts.

kthxbai!

Add comment April 29th, 2008

Naming nits

It’s Songbird, not SongBird.

It’s OpenSolaris, not Open Solaris.

(yeah yeah, I realise I’m hardly qualified to be the grammar nazi, but those two do bug me)

5 comments April 22nd, 2008

yay history meme!

originally from planet gnome but it looks like the meme jumped worlds over to planet mozilla where i found it from dan mills (of weave fame).

wonder if it’ll jump worlds over to planet opensolaris too.. ?

[stevel@grommit:~] 501$ uname -a
SunOS grommit 5.11 snv_75 i86pc i386 i86pc
[stevel@grommit:~] 502$ history | awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
87 ls
81 cd
41 vim
38 ll
22 cat
18 svcs
14 java
12 svcadm
11 su
10 ps

1 comment April 14th, 2008

Songbird 0.5 final on OpenSolaris

Alfred just built a Songbird 0.5 final build for OpenSolaris… his blog contains all the salient links for download and such.

I’ve been playing with it on my Thinkpad running snv_81 and it works a treat. In fact, it seems to work better than Songbird on my MacBook does. If my Thinkpad weren’t a beast to carry around, I might start to use it more. Maybe I should finally figure out how to BootCamp my MacBook into SXCE now.

Three cheers to Alfred for getting the 0.5 final built! I’m working on getting it hosted at the Songbird site now. We’ve not previously had a place to put up contributor builds, so this is kind of blazing the path for us there and helping us define a lot of stuff we need to do for the future anyway.

Along those lines, I proposed a topic for the upcoming OpenSolaris Developer Summit where the four of us (alfred, ken mays, albert lee (a.k.a. triskelios), and myself) could talk about and show off Songbird a bit. Obviously, I have a slight bias given I work at POTI - which is why I’ve coerced the other 3 into joining me so I sound like less of a corporate tool.

I’m hoping the four of us combined can swing a decent demo, while I hope Alfred can say a few words on working with the Songbird project devs. He’s in the unique situation of working for a huge corporation (Sun), contributing to an upstream open source project (Songbird) which is itself downstream from a huge open source project (Mozilla). Certainly I think Alfred has had some great interactions with the Songbird devs in terms of test, code review, patch submission, etc. that might be insightful as we work to open up the OpenSolaris developer contribution process. I know I’m curious to hear his thoughts anyway.

1 comment April 7th, 2008

opensolaris developer conference

there are a ton of conferences coming up, and if you’re involved in the opensolaris community at all, you should definitely try to get out to the opensolaris developer conference (or osdevcon for short) in prague in june.

even better - why don’t you submit a paper? the call for papers ends april 20th, so get your submission in!

Add comment April 3rd, 2008

self-serving?

is it self-serving of me to want to show/talk about/demo Songbird on OpenSolaris at the devsummit coming up in May?

i thought about it long and hard, and decided yeah - it was perhaps a bit self-serving for me to push that as an agenda item. people might view it as abuse of the fact that i’m both an OGB member and work at Songbird.

to that end, i’ve put it up on the agenda anyway and volunteered ken mays, alfred peng, and triskelios to demo it ;-). i put myself at the end of the list since i’d rather those guys did it (especially alfred since he tackled much of the hard build system work, and albert for getting an initial port/patch up). i might say a few words about the integration/code review process of getting it back upstream into Songbird, but nothing too much.

but enough about that. i’ll bring stickers! wonderful farting gaseous stickers!

2 comments April 3rd, 2008

many thanks…

thanks to all who elected me to the new 2008-2009 term on the OGB.

i have the dubious honour of being the only non-Sun employee on the board. i hope that won’t play into my role or responsibilities, but it’ll certainly be interesting to see whether that has any influence on the dynamic at all.

i’m glad to see that we have some continuity with alanc, gman, and myself carrying through. i’m also happy to see some higher-level Sun representation with webmink on the board as well. i think plocher will bring some great knowledge and thoughts to the board. i value all the community experience that jimgris has, and i’m glad he’s finally on the board (he was the first runner-up last year), and having the ON tech lead, jbeck can only be good.

plus jbeck don’t take shit from no one.