[advocacy-discuss] Offering binaries

[Kaiwai Gardiner]

Hi,

True, but there needs to be maintenance; software just can't be thrown into
the distribution and end users to be told 'tough luck' till the next release
of GNOME - there need to be follow up builds and mergers into SXCE or
otherwise it'll simply be a waste to anyone actually wanting to 'getting
into' Solaris.

In the case of JDS, for example, offer a new of the stable line once per
week whilst offering those who are a little more adventurous a development
version - and where possible, merge the new build into the next SXCE.

Just a side note, I tried to compile SFE*specs but found that it couldn't
find msgfmt command in /opt/sfw/bin.

Matt

On 19/06/07, Michal Bielicki <michal.bielicki at voiceworks.pl> wrote:
>
> 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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