Blog posts in the run up to OSCON

[amirmc]

We've discussed that we will have a series of blog posts in the run up to OSCON so this issue is to track progress of those posts. This issue will be edited as things change/progress and we pick release dates for those posts. Please don't wait for a prompt to get started :)
All posts should be out by 21 July 2014.

Security by @hannesm and @pqwy

• TLS intro (protocol) - 8 July
• nocrypto lib - 9 July
• x509 lib - 10 July
• asn1 lib, parsing and unparsing - 11 July
• ocaml-tls API and internals and attacks/mitigations - 14 July

ocaml-tls and mirage integration (might not do this one)

Others

• ctypes (summary) by @yallop - 15 July
• vchan by @jonludlam - 16 July
• User-level networking by @yomimono - 17 July
• irmin by @samoht - 18 July
• irmin in xen(store) by @djs55 - 21 July
• Minios/ARM by @talex5 - 22 July

conduit by @avsm - 17 July

22 July

• Post on new release (back refs all other posts)
• Post on blog.xen.org for release announcement (back refs all other posts)

[amirmc]

Everyone listed above should already have access to the private OCL papers repo. You can use the 'mirage' folder there for work in progress. Hannes, David, would you mind moving your drafts to that folder?

[hannesm]

@amirmc which mirage folder? I cannot find any... should it be mirage or Mirage?

[amirmc]

I forgot to actually push my changes. Now done.

[hannesm]

done.

[amirmc]

Looking at how much time we have before the announcements. We realistically have 10 days, with one post per day, starting on 7 July (avoiding weekends, if possible). The first week would be the TLS work, as that's closer to being ready, which leaves the following week for the remainder of the posts.

I've just spoken to @yallop and the ctypes post will go live on 14 July, which means we need to figure out when irmin, conduit, vchan and miniOS will go up that week.

[samoht]

I've started a very rough draft for an Irmin manual in https://github.com/samoht/irmin/blob/docs/doc/manual/manual.pdf?raw=true, which I'll try to turn into a blog post in the next days.

[amirmc]

👍

[amirmc]

I've pencilled in provisional dates for the remaining posts. Please can @avsm, @jonludlam and @talex5 confirm that the dates are ok.

[talex5]

The ARM date (draft by 16th) is fine for me.

[avsm]

Confirmed July 15th fine for me.

[hannesm]

for this monday @avsm wants to setup another (or n other) virtual machines with a cloned fs from tls.openmirage, and configure DNS round robin between these machines. the setup currently does use the socket backend of mirage; and cstruct-1.2.0 (thus without the length checking)

[hannesm]

the article for monday https://github.com/ocamllabs/papers/blob/master/mirage/tls-intro.md is ready from our site.. if someone wants to re-read and look over, please do so.

[amirmc]

Thanks! I'll look over tomorrow just to check language and will commit any tweaks directly.

Will comment here when I'm done and will prep a PR for Monday. Are the others going ok? I haven't had a chance to check repo directly.

Best wishes,
Amir

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On 4 Jul 2014, at 17:36, Hannes Mehnert notifications@github.com wrote:

the article for monday https://github.com/ocamllabs/papers/blob/master/mirage/tls-intro.md is ready from our site.. if someone wants to re-read and look over, please do so.

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