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

[Michal Bielicki]

S h i v wrote:
> The desktop-community[1] members, SFW consolidation[2] list members &
> Image Packaging System project[3] members might be interested in this.
> You may want to consider mailing to those lists as well.
>
> SFE project is an excellent effort to port softwares to opensolaris by
> members of desktop community. Lots of them are available in the
> repository (http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/spec-files-extra).
>
> best regards
> Shiv
>
> [1] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop
> [2] http://opensolaris.org/os/project/sfwnv/discussions
> [3] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg
>
>   

I know, I ported unixODBC to SFE and extended libcurl to be 32/64bit in 
there as well. I wanted to first follow the classic approval lines
and than pass it to the other lists with the question who would be 
interested. One of the reasons for us doing this proposal is exactly the 
confusion that gets created
cause most portingis hidden in other projects, like Desktop, which for 
example is the totaly wrong place for my porting efforts which are all
in the VoIP server space :)
> On Feb 4, 2008 5:52 PM, Michal Bielicki <michal.bielicki at voiceworks.pl> 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
>>
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>> Michal Bielicki
>> CEO
>> http://www.voiceworks.pl/
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Michal Bielicki
CEO
http://www.voiceworks.pl/
Voice Works Sp. z o.o. z siedziba w Warszawie przy ulicy Polnej 46/14,
00-644 Warszawa, Polska
wpisana zostala do rejestru przedsiebiorcow prowadzonego przez
Sad Rejonowy dla M.ST.Warszawy w Warszawie,
XII Wydzial Krajowego Rejestru Sadowego pod numerem KRS 0000257259.
NIP 701-00-25-117
Wysokosc kapitalu zakladowego: 51000,00 PLN