Indiana Town Hall June 19 2008

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OpenSolaris Community Strategy Planning Meeting

Please note the new date for this meeting

Thursday: June 19, 2008 2pm - 5pm PT (in other timezones)

#opensolaris-meeting on irc.freenode for IRC back-channel while on the call

If you missed the call an MP3 (2:37:53, 72MB) is available.

Schedule

Time Topic Speaker
2:00-2:30 pm PT Overview Tim Cramer/Dan Roberts
2:30-3:00 pm PT Installer Dave Miner
3:00-3:30 pm PT Image Packaging Stephen Hahn
3:30 -3:40pm PT Lightning talk
3:40 -3:50pm PT Lightning talk
3:50 -4:00pm PT Lightning talk
4:00 -4:10pm PT Lightning talk
4:10 -4:20pm PT Lightning talk
4:20 -4:30pm PT Lightning talk
4:30 - 5:00 pm PT Q & A

Lightning Talk Proposals/Requests

Requirement Short Description Comment Submitter
Proprietary media playback The ability play proprietary video and audio files as well as DVD's in Totem, Rhythmbox, Songbird, etc. Thinking along the lines of how Ubuntu handle theses issues (Good, Bad, Ugly), rather than the convoluted process we have to go through on Indiana Ché Kristo
Sun Ray Host The ability for OpenSolaris to act as a host for Sun Ray clients Responsibility for this is more likely to be upon the Sun Ray team Ché Kristo
OpenSound integration Integrate OSS into OpenSolaris Ché Kristo
NV-sata Atapi support is needed The NV-Sata driver don't work with sata-dvd's. This is a recurring problem on osol-help BUG ID 6595488 Lars Tunkrans
Change process for /etc/driver_aliases The Driver_aliases is incomplete and will always be incomplete . A reporting tool/process for adding working PCI-IDS to the list would increase its quality. As it is now , newbies give up when a NIC listed as supported does not work. Example of this : http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=209641 Lars Tunkrans
why are there no mirrors listed on opensolaris.com In particular, why is genunix.org not listed? Why not make use of free bandwidth and provide the end-user with download alternatives. Why "launch" with a single point-of-failure (limelight) after dlc.sun.com fell over (as predicted)

gman: I agree, getting it fixed now, and hopefully there'll be something up soon

Al Hopper al at logical dash approach dot com
A newbie readable list of supported chipsets Today a newbie can not decide if a motherboard/computer will run OpenSolaris short of actually testing it live. The list of tested Hardware on the HCL is not whats in the shop at the moment. OpenSolaris need a list like the FreeBSD H/W support list: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html , so that a better buying decision can be made. I want to know If Nvidia MCP78 with Hypertransport 3 and the Phenom Processoer is **supposed** to work . :-) Lars Tunkrans
Simple JeOS A simple method of installing just enough operating system We would need to define a set of essential packages and have an option in the installer for JeOS Ché Kristo
Project planning visibility Raise visibility and help everyone understand SMI's OS project pipeline How can we make more visible the projects (especially F/OSS) that SMI has plans and projects underway to "port"? Aside from keeping vigilant on the umpteen discussions lists, it is difficult to know what projects are where in the SMI internal development pipeline. Some are projects being emancipated (HoneyComb), some are in the ideation phase (SunLabs), and some are just plain enhancements which just show up on announcement day fully formed and ready to integrate. Additionally, who sets priority on which projects get worked on first? Many external contributors (5% of total contributions?) are scratching itches. The vast bulk of development is SMI internal and driven by requirements/business needs no one else sees. Would John P.'s ARC case/project manager tool help fill this void? Can it be solved by simply increasing the visibility, even if not addressing the requirements/steering? Mark Martin
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