[gnu-sol-discuss] Re: [sfwnv-discuss] Re: [ports-discuss] Re: [sfwnv] Open Source software and OpenSolaris. What is the deal?

[Brian Gupta]

Whether we are talking about Solaris or OpenSolaris, can we agree that
we are talking about a framework to incorporate Solaris community
efforts into OpenSolaris, with the hope that those changes will be
incorporated into Solaris.

I think so far we have done much to start moving there.

Draft #2: OpenSolaris open source integration policy and development plan

Progress report #1:
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1) Integrate Blastwave into the Opensolaris effort. (Dennis has agreed
that this is a worthy goal. A handful of community members have
endorsed the idea.)

  - Have the package paths match Solaris paths.( --prefix should be "/")
  - Blastwave packages and SFW packages will use the same compilation flags.
  - Blastwave and SFW will use the same compiler versions.
  - When appropriate blastwave maintainers will also maintain SFW
  - Blastwave will continue to maintain unstable S11 packages

2) Work to make Dennis's offer to share build machines to OpenSolaris SFW
  maintainers more widely know.`(Dennis)

3) Follow up with Sun proper for more resources for SFW. We need public build
  servers, that won't impact the Balstwave builds. We need more Sun bodies.
  We also need to put together a public repository that contains supported
  unsupported and unstable packages. (Ian) No Progress

4) Merge SFW, CCD, Ports and GNU communities/projects into a single
one called SFW.
  Merge leadership, mailing lists and members. This needs to be fast tracked
  (???) No progress (Can someone volunteer for this?)

5) Start a project to define what is "core" Solaris, what isn't but Sun will
  support and what will be community supported. (???) Have not agreed
that this is a worthwhile goal. I will keep pushing.

6) Stefan Teleman, Danek Duvall, Steve Stallion and Dennis Clarke will
  lead investigation into the next gen sfw-get packaging. Whether that's
  pkg-get compatible, apt-get compatible, or other, is for them to determine.
Stefen is working with Danek, and Steve is working with Dennis. I
would like to see these efforts combined.

7) Sun should start giving credit to contributors. (Ian) No progress

8) Reach out to user groups for assistance. (Brian) No progress

9) Woo upstream developers and maintainers, to join the cause. This of course
  would be limited to smaller projects. (Once we have a coherent procedure
  and policy in place.) (Everyone) Pending policy and infrastructure..