[advocacy-discuss] Offering binaries

[Kaiwai Gardiner]

Hi,

I posted it as to whether it was ok (whether I am allowed to) to offer
precompiled packages of JDS using the specs off the
src.opensolaris.orgserver - no need to get snappy.

Matt

On 19/06/07, Eric Boutilier <Eric.Boutilier at sun.com> wrote:
>
> 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...
>
> ----
>      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
> ----
>
>
> > - 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
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >>
> >> >> _______________________________________________
> >> >> advocacy-discuss mailing list
> >> >> advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org
> >> >> http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> advocacy-discuss mailing list
> >> advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org
> >> http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss
> >>
> >
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://oss-beta1.opensolaris.org/pipermail/advocacy-discuss/attachments/20070619/17560902/attachment.html