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

[Siobhan P. Lynch]

I have some experience working with FreeBSD ports, if I can learn the
package format (I'm sad OpenSolaris won't support source packages?, at
least that's what I'm aware of?) then I can be of a bit of help, as I
have a bit'o software porting experience. I can even maintain certain
packages that I could work on, including maybe a "official" ecartis
package for OpenSolaris (ecartis is the MLM that ISC and SGI use for
their list management, I am on the "core" team of developers)

-Trish

> -----Original Message-----
> From: advocacy-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org [mailto:advocacy-
> discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Eric Boutilier
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 5:10 PM
> To: Michal Bielicki
> Cc: advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org
> Subject: Re: [advocacy-discuss] New Community/Project Request:
> OpenSolaris Software Porters Community/Portal
> 
> +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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