[advocacy-discuss] Offering binaries

[Eric Boutilier]

On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There isn't a need to create a whole new project...

Right, that's why I also posted this...

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     Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:20:07 -0500 (CDT)
     Subject: [advocacy-discuss] Re: Offering binaries

     On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
     >
     > I would like to offer pre-compiled binaries of JDS/GNOME and SFE...
     > ...

     On the SFE front -- this is not well known yet -- but there's an
     effort underway to start a project based on the SFE stuff.
     http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/pkgbase-dev/2007-May/date.html

     And offering pre-compiled binaries would be one of its objectives.

     Eric
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> - 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> 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>> 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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