[opensolaris-summit] Minutes of the 9/18 Summit Meetings

[Roland Mainz]

Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote:
> John Plocher wrote:
> >Shawn Walker wrote:
> >>I tend to agree that I hope that this is
> >>more about problem solving than hacking...
> >
> >I see room for both - especially if we (Sun) can arrange for
> >a reasonable set of high end systems to play with.
> >
> >While some topics (politics/governance/ARCs/...) won't be impacted
> >much by the compute infrastructure at the conference, I can see other
> >tracks taking a more hands-on dig in and play with code attitude.
> 
> As originally advertised, the event was to be about discussion
> relating to the project itself - it wasn't billed as a "hackathon" -
> and more specifically, to discuss Indiana.
> 
> If we're going to be more generic and even think about making
> it a coding/hacking session then we need to readvertise it as
> such.

Erm, the idea the behind the requested stuff (short: one server and 2x
x86 + 2xSPARC) was only for a few people sticking their heads together
on some software problems, including booting custom kernels (e.g. the
"server" is userland only (e.g. SunRay, home dirs, editors, compilers,
OS/Net build tools etc.) and for jumpstarting the other machines).
For a "hackathon" with 100 people we would AFAIK at least need ten times
more machines...

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Bye,
Roland

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