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

[J Ross Nicoll]

No... SL appears to have CAS covered already, and just needs uploaded
bytecode to be verified (so that the server knows it's not about to
try running something broken).

Frisby, Adam wrote:
> 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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