illumos hackathon a resounding success
Yesterday we had our first ever illumos hack-a-thon. About a dozen people from the community showed up, and worked on some very very cool things. At the end of the day, about a half-dozen different demos were done, to show what was worked on. We'll be posting photos shortly. But here are some of the projects that got attention: tab completion for dcmds and data types in mdb ::print for DTrace expanded truss support for ZFS ioctls (nvlist expansion) time-ordered output for DTrace a comment field in the vdev label for ZFS pool devices the ability to change the GUID of a ZFS pool Several other projects were in progress. We selected these projects out of a much larger list of project proposals (which I'll post soon), based on the what people thought was most useful, and the ability to achieve results in a single day hack-a-thon. (And what people we willing to either work on, or mentor.) Most importantly, people got to work on areas that they weren't intimately familiar wi