[arc-discuss] Project planning and ARC/no-ARC integration (was "was Alpine, now Exim...")

[Alan DuBoff]

On Mon, 5 May 2008, Mark Martin wrote:

> How would you be more helped by an external repository that doesn't have 
> Alpine in it than an internal repository that doesn't have Alpine in it?

Mark,

In your description here, it wouldn't matter at all. What I was thinking 
is that we would actually have IPS Alpine in an external repository, any 
distribution could use such a package, no matter who they are, or 
community people could have access and use it themself.

> In either case, a consumer/contributor may not want to wait, or if #3,
> may not even know a project is already underway.  They may want to do as
> Alan did, and port/build themselves.   What do they do with the resulting
> package?  What happens when any of the 3 previous cases complete
> (possibly creating duplicate packages with incompatible integration/ARC
> expectation levels)?  How can we prevent duplicate efforts?

For OpenSolaris it would be up to Sun if they even wanted to use the 
package. If a package was created through the ARC process currently in 
place, that package could replace the public IPS, IMO. We only need one 
official package, if the package has gone through ARC and completed the 
entire checklist for integration, the would be such a package, IMO.

> What's the expectation for a "contributor" (grant or no) who wants to
> scratch an itch and then make it available for others via a
> Use-This-if-You-Dare repository?

That's the idea of having a public repository.

Al Hopper has agreed to host one on genunix.org, and I think that is most 
fitting.

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group