Developer Meeting
19 May 2005 - 11:35pm AEST (GMT+1000)

* Presentations & Status Reports

  - 20h :
	- Multiauthdom
	  - All done except for factotum
	  - waiting on ddr.9grid.de to come back online
	  - Authsrv + backend are working.
	  - Release when its done (no alphas)
	  - It "takes the keys of the users on the other nodes and uses them for
		the tickets."
	  - Still Private Key based
		- rsc9 suggests that this should be replaced to use public keys

    - Modularised Installer

    - dtLinux v2.6 with v9fs

  - brz (via boyd):
	- ozinferno
	  - "living on Vashon Island off Seattle where it is very
		tranquil.  It will be in NJ in two weeks and then paris."
	  - "doesn't need much doc 'cause the vita stuff will largely do"

	- will IRC first week of june when in paris

  - ericvh:

	- 9grid.us
	  - slowly coming to life.
	  - main function to be a drawterm host
	  - for checking out 9 vs real grid apps
	  - should be available after the weekend

	- v9fs
	  - up to release canidate 5
	  - complaints from pre-LKML community diminishing
	  - likely to go to LKML on Monday

	- summer projects:
	  - reliability stuff
	  - linux kernel server support (more than u9fs)
		- "want to be able to attach gateway devices, etc. directly to it."

	- interested in:
	  - authsrv for Linux
	  - plan9ports being split up more linux-like
	  - "split up the components a bit so I can have people just grab the
		libraries and build environment to build synthetic file servers 
		under Linux"

  - Jim7J1AJH:

	- "no news"

  - kuroneko:

	- sparc32:
	  - up to MMU mapping
	  - xalloc needs fixing
		- needs multiple arbitary zone allocation

	- fs64:
	  - need to retest

	- fs:
	  - patches
	    - jukebox behaviour workarounds
		- /n/sources/contrib/ccollins/fs
	  - document build procedures

  - gdiaz:

	- 9grid.org.es stalled due to workload
	- to talk to 20h about cross-domain auth

  - Major-Willard (boyd):
	- bad hand slowing work
	- compiler
	  - tweaking for large macro expansions
		- "99.9% done. the 0.1% is subtle"
	  - cmd/8c and cmd/cc are on contrib/boyd

  - nashi:
	- running tip9ug servers
	- talking about multi authdom in tip9ug
	- "everyone behaves good on mordor."

	- according to vt3: "working on japanese fonts , finding security
	  issues with venti, just being modest"

  - noselasd:
	
	- "got nothing"

  - Oksel:

	- "not doing much specific"
	- interested in looking at usb
	  - modified usbd to automatically load usbmouse when a mouse gets 
		plugged in

  - quintile:

	- cifs
	  - adding ntlmv2 auth, message signing, dfs support
	- seperating libasn1 from libsec
	  - leading up to ldapfs, snmpfs and krb in factotum
	- chatfs as a /net service providing msim, yahoo, jabber, etc

	- all incomplete - published when ready


  - rmiller:

	- working on usb storage improvements soon
	  - usb itself needs work as its too slow to be really
	  	usable for storage
	  - many devices don't boey the spec either
	  - poor performance attributed to "only being able to send one packet
	    per usb frame"
	  - forsyth may be looking at usb as well
	  - usb booting should work if supported by bios

  - rminnich

	- v9fs
	  - oopses on unmount
	- port to Xen3.0
	  - goes really slowly
	- working with vic zandy'x xcpu
	  - "xcpu is really really nice"
	  - server for remote execution
	  - not released yet
	  - for lightweight cluster nodes.
	  - similar to linux bproc stuff
	- strongarm
	  - enet driver has issue
	- try to work with k8 once jmk releases initial kernel code


  - rsc9:

	- wkj has almost working sshv2
	- working on venti
	  - almost in a releaseable state
	  - jmk + rsc9 will be deploying a new venti to test it
	  - considerably faster than old venti
	  - p9p release first, then plan9 native

  - tmcm:
	- pointed out buffer overflow vulnerability report
	  - http://schtarb.free.fr/plan9.txt

  - uriel:
	- hacking on wiki
	- fixes for patch(1) to move submitted patches into their 
	  own dir first