[advocacy-discuss] Offering binaries

[Michal Bielicki]

We are talking about porting stuff per se .. not only stuff that goes
into the core distribution concept ...

Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There isn't a need to create a whole new project - but to ensure that
> not only are the 'development builds' are rebuilt on a regular basis,
> but that the 'stable' ones are rebuilt so that bug fixes are made
> available to customers who, for example, are running 2.18 but don't
> want to move to the beta builds.
>
> For example, I'm building Build 68 of 2.18.x right now, which includes
> Pidgin - this would allow those of us who want for example, Pidgin,
> but didn't make it in time for the merging with SXCE, to be able to
> get that update.
>
> Matt
>
> On 19/06/07, *Eric Boutilier* <Eric.Boutilier at sun.com
> <mailto:Eric.Boutilier at sun.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Michal Bielicki wrote:
>     > Maybe we should start a porting community for all that stuff
>     that gets
>     > ported or will be ported to opensolaris, iandiana, solaris or
>     however we
>     > call it. And with it a place to host all these projects ?
>
>     I agree, something like that is needed. So what sponsoring CG
>     (Community Group) should the existing ports projects, SFW,
>     Companion, and pkgbase (SFE), belong to?
>
>     My 2 cents: How about suggesting that they jointly become
>     sponsored by the Installation CG? It's kind of a good fit,
>     and it's also now the official sponsoring CG for the Indiana
>     (OpenSolaris distro) project.
>
>     Eric
>
>
>     >
>     > Just my 2gr
>     >
>     > Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
>     >> Hi,
>     >>
>     >> I won't be using OpenSolaris.org website - if it involves all that
>     >> stuffing around; I'll probably just upload it to Sourceforge or
>     >> something like that.
>     >>
>     >> Matt
>     >>
>     >> On 19/06/07, *Eric Boutilier* <Eric.Boutilier at sun.com
>     <mailto:Eric.Boutilier at sun.com>
>     >> <mailto: Eric.Boutilier at sun.com
>     <mailto:Eric.Boutilier at sun.com>>> wrote:
>     >>
>     >>     On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
>     >>    > Hi,
>     >>    >
>     >>    > I would like to offer pre-compiled binaries of JDS/GNOME and
>     >>     SFE; am I allow
>     >>    > to do that? are there any conditions attached to it?
>     >>
>     >>     There's an overview of the conditions and process here:
>     >>           http://opensolaris.org/os/projects/posting_instr/
>     >>     also see:
>     >>          http://opensolaris.org/os/communities/lead_reference/
>     >>     <http://opensolaris.org/os/communities/lead_reference/>
>     >>
>     >>     Any questions should be answered there, but if not, let us
>     know.
>     >>
>     >>     Eric
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
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