[advocacy-discuss] New Community/Project Request: OpenSolaris Software Porters Community/Portal

[Michal Bielicki]

Hi Guys,
I wanted to create this for a year now, but somehow never got the 
proposal together. So since now there seem to be quite a bunch of people
that want to support this, here is my proposal. I am ready to manage and 
handle the project and would be also very very thankful for comments, 
suggestions,
proposals and so on.

Project/Community Proposal for the OpenSolaris Software Porters Community
 Short Name
 Porting Software to OpenSolaris

 Sponsoring Communities
 Desktop ?
 Polish OpenSolaris UserGroup
 Indiana ?

 Initial participants
 Michal Bielicki
 Damian Wojslaw
 Kristopher Januszajtis-Neale
 Ed Pimentel
 Alexander Feldman
 Jay Fenton
 Mike Jerris
 Michal Pryc


 Any OGB members interested?
 Any Indiana participants interested?
 Anyone else interested?

 Description:

 The project is to create a central space for the collection of 
information, exchange of information
 discussion and repository storage of software projects that are being 
ported to Solaris and OpenSolaris.
 We would like to collect all the scattered information, like mileks 
tutorial on IPS packaging, Laca's SFE project
 and all the other nice and helpful sources in a central space and 
herewith make porting software to OpenSolaris
 a far easier Job than it is now, with a supporting IRC channel, a 
forum/mailing list for experience exchange and
 discussion and ultimately actively work to get sponsors to provide CPU 
cycle for Projects that would like to port
 their code to OpenSolaris (Something along the line of Novells/SuSE 
Open Build Servers, but for OpenSolaris ?).
 From personal experience we know that porting can be a horrendously tricky
 job if you need to find all the information yourself.
 

Project part:
Create and maintain a database of porting projects (SFE, Sunfreeware, 
blastwave, .....)
Create and maintain a list of links to all information available about 
porting software to solaris/opensolaris/Indiana/whatsitsname
Create and maintain a database of documents related to the same
Create new documentation, which helps and explains how to port software 
to the aforementioned
Try to create a pool of ressources for porters (ask sponsors for CPU 
cycles, repository space ... ... ... )
Yes I know ... loads of work :)

Community part:
An information exchange forum/mailing list where porters can discuss 
experiences and people can ask if someone is already
working on a specific package
A wiki that will help create part of the project part
A portal to all the project part

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Any input on what else could be done is very appreciated.

cheers
Michal

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