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

[Michal Bielicki]

As a person coming from a post communist country, comittees and similar 
always scaare me ;)
So
I found out that to create a community we need to apply to the OGB and 
that the PLOSUG as a Project can not
be one of the Sponsors of another project. Since most of the packagers 
are currently on the Desktop list I am CCing this to the Desktop list
and CCing it as a request for a new Community to the OGB as well

cheers

Michal

Michal Bielicki wrote:
> 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
>>>
>>> --
>>> --
>>> Michal Bielicki
>>> CEO
>>> http://www.voiceworks.pl/
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>>>     
>>>       
>
>
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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