[advocacy-discuss] OSUG Discussion: OGB Reorg and New Webapp Issues

[Alan DuBoff]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Glynn Foster wrote:

>   - Hack-fests (eg. packaging for IPS)

I have a couple comments in regards to IPS packaging and/or the community.

There's an incredibly important role the community could help OpenSolaris 
users with, and we can all be a much stronger community.

What if we had an IPS repository that hosted ONLY GPLv3 code? People 
within the community could contribute code that would be held in a public 
repository (genunix.org for instance, which Al Hopper agreed would be a 
good use for the community), so that we can start to create a large GPLv3 
repository.

This would also benefit the OpenSolaris engineers internally at Sun, as 
well as externally in the much larger community at large.

Anyone developing on OpenSolaris could get the GPLv3 packages and add them 
to a system, all they would need to do is add the repository to their 
machine configuration.

What say ye?

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group