Hi,
My *long* overdue set of notes from my trip to SGI last week are
attached. Hopefully, things at my end are on a little more even keel
for a while, and these kinds of delays won't recur soon. My apologies
for the delay.
I spent two days last week at SGI in a review of their cooperative
effort with SuSE to release their FailSafe project into the Linux world
as an open source development project.
I got an overview of their architecture, and spent a good bit of time
talking to various team members about the Linux community. Since their
product isn't *yet* open sourced, the discussion was made under a
non-disclosure agreement.
A quick summary of my visit:
+ They were very enthusiastic about starting up the community-based
LinuxFailSafe project.
+ They are working through their internal processes to release the
code and docs as quickly as they can.
+ They have started the port to Linux and have made good progress
on it so far.
+ Although I haven't seen the source yet, I did like what I saw.
The architecture makes sense, and the demos were nice.
It seems to have a lot of promise.
+ A very high-level document or two will be available to everyone
(not just SuSE) soon, and a few lower-level docs are on their
way to Lars and me.
+ Once they've completed their process, ALL code and docs will be
available to EVERYONE. After all, this is a community-based
open source project.
+ I set up a mailing list for the project. You can subscribe to it
here: http://lists.tummy.com/mailman/listinfo/linuxfailsafe
I hope this helps!
Thanks!
-- Alan Robertson
alanr@suse.com
My *long* overdue set of notes from my trip to SGI last week are
attached. Hopefully, things at my end are on a little more even keel
for a while, and these kinds of delays won't recur soon. My apologies
for the delay.
I spent two days last week at SGI in a review of their cooperative
effort with SuSE to release their FailSafe project into the Linux world
as an open source development project.
I got an overview of their architecture, and spent a good bit of time
talking to various team members about the Linux community. Since their
product isn't *yet* open sourced, the discussion was made under a
non-disclosure agreement.
A quick summary of my visit:
+ They were very enthusiastic about starting up the community-based
LinuxFailSafe project.
+ They are working through their internal processes to release the
code and docs as quickly as they can.
+ They have started the port to Linux and have made good progress
on it so far.
+ Although I haven't seen the source yet, I did like what I saw.
The architecture makes sense, and the demos were nice.
It seems to have a lot of promise.
+ A very high-level document or two will be available to everyone
(not just SuSE) soon, and a few lower-level docs are on their
way to Lars and me.
+ Once they've completed their process, ALL code and docs will be
available to EVERYONE. After all, this is a community-based
open source project.
+ I set up a mailing list for the project. You can subscribe to it
here: http://lists.tummy.com/mailman/listinfo/linuxfailsafe
I hope this helps!
Thanks!
-- Alan Robertson
alanr@suse.com