[Opensim-dev] Looking for people with CLI/MSIL experience!

[Frisby, Adam]

Is this a project to implement CAS?

Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: opensim-dev-bounces at lists.berlios.de [mailto:opensim-dev-
> bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Imaze Rhiano
> Sent: Monday, 20 July 2009 12:48 AM
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: [Opensim-dev] Looking for people with CLI/MSIL experience!
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Sorry, this is bit off topic, because this message doesn't just concern
> Open SIM development, it hopefully have also impact to Mono Project and
> SL.
> 
> We are looking for people with CLI/MSIL experience - or people who are
> motivated and quick learners - to join the project which goal is to
> write test suite for Mono project's metadata verifier. Also persons
> with
> less programming experience would be most helpful to join the project -
> there are lot's of things to do that don't require any programming
> skills!
> 
> Metadata verifier is critical component of Mono's sandbox
> (http://mono-project.com/MonoSandbox).When sandbox is completed it
> should allow "execute arbitrary untrusted code and ensure that the
> untrusted code does not compromise the security of the system". It
> enables  to run safely scripts that are written by C#, VB.NET or other
> CLI compatible language in SL or Open SIM servers. For Mono, sandbox is
> one big requirement under their Moonlight project (Open source version
> of M$ Silverlight) (http://mono-project.com/MoonlightNotes).
> 
> Currently we are doing very boring task called "reading specifications"
> - and same time we are collecting rules that are related to metadata
> verifier to very-big-ebil-list that we can use to generate test cases.
> When this is done, we hopefully can start writing test cases for
> metadata verifier. There is already working Mono metadata verifier that
> can analyze lower level logical format of metadata, but mostly due to
> lack of tests development has stopped to those tracks. Writing of test
> cases needs some lower level understanding of the runtime environment -
> that is where CLI/MSIL experience comes very handy.
> 
> To get more information about project:
> - VISIT in our Wiki:
> http://www.xugumadison.org/csharp-sl/index.php?title=Main_Page
> (includes
> meeting minutes, project plan, etc)
> - CONTACT to me in SL (Imaze Rhiano) or send mail for me
> - JOIN our SL group "C# Scripters".
> - JOIN to our next meeting: 10:00 SLT (PDT)/ 17:00 GMT (NO DST!) /
> 19:00
> CET- 21th July 2009 - IRC #monodev - http://mono-project.com/IRC
> 
> If you want know about more Metadata verifier
> - READ http://mono-project.com/MonoSandbox
> - CHECK out mono's source code
> - TALK with Kumpera in #monodev channel - http://mono-project.com/IRC
> 
> If you are not familiar with CLI/MSIL then you here are some good
> sources to start with:
> - Kenny Kerr: Introduction to MSIL
> (http://weblogs.asp.net/kennykerr/archive/2004/09/07/introduction-to-
> msil-part-1-hello-world.aspx)
> - Standard ECMA-335 Common Language Infrastructure (CLI)
> (http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-335.htm)
> - NET Common Language Runtime Unleashed (book preview)
> (http://books.google.fi/books?id=3059QRxPNQcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=.n
> et+common+language+runtime&ei=vhxjSvbBKqK2yATsxIDaDw)
> 
> Thank you!
> 
> 
> (Also sorry about my baaaad engrish :P)
> 
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