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

[Eric Boutilier]

+1

-Eric

On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, 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
>
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