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

[Rich Reynolds]

I have time and could help...


rich


Michal Bielicki wrote:
> 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
>
> -----------------
>
> Any input on what else could be done is very appreciated.
>
> cheers
> Michal
>
>