[ug-bosug] [belenix-discuss] Belenix 0.7 plans

[Manish Chakravarty]

Hi All,


my two cents:
>
>
> *How easily can a new developer join the BeleniX project?
>  - We'll be moving to SFE.. where will the belenix sources be hosted?
>  - Are we setting up rules to give contributor status?
>  - Is there a need for a constitution for the belenix community?
>
> *Building BeleniX
>  - We had discussed checking the performance of a gcc-built belenix
> prototype and going ahead with it. Is this still in the plans?
>  This was discussed due to the inablity to redistribute Sun Studio
> freely. It's currently only freely downloadable.


I we cant redistribute BeleniX freely. But there is no problem in
distributing binaries compiled from Sun Studio.

How about we try a quick and dirty build of KDE4 on belenix?
It already builds well on S10.
I am upbeat about KDE4 because KBE ( the build system) is designed to work
on S10, has very few requirements (it pulls all the stuff it needs from the
net ) and should work without a problem
I would be interested in trying this out.

Since the build system is being migrated to .spec files, we would end up
with a scenario like

ON ==> OpenSolaris
X ==> OpenSolaris
KDE ==> SpecFiles
other Software ==> SFE

Which would reduce effort required for maintenance , help us concentrate on
the branding, look and feel and general end-user experience of belenix.

How does this sound?

Can I have a copy of the belenix sources in the next BOSUG meet? Let me try
and build KDE4 on this. May be "borrow" a few Sabayon tricks for belenix?

>
>
> *Website issues
>  - The website needs to be upgraded. How do we find new artwork.
>  - How good is the current bugs database?
>  - Can we have all the links resolve to belenix.org? (and not to
> sarovar or genunix)
>
> * An alpha release
>  -Can we have a quick alpha release before the 0.7? This could be
> distributed minimally on the list and we can try it out on as many
> different types of hardware to clean up issues that linger on after
> release (like the math library issue in 0.6 and install issue in 0.6*)
>

BeleniX 0.7 Alpha (or call it Belenix KDE4 Developer Preview ;) if you so
wish ) makes sense. Belenix is of course a KDE based distribution.

Can we sync up at the next BOSUG meet? I'd like to take the last Belenix
build, put SunStudio and KBE on it and give KDE4 a try on Belenix.


>
> * Other topics?

Let's take cues from Sabayon and make the end-user experience a little more
polished.

>
>
> If you are willing to take up one of the tasks, join into this
> discussion with your thoughts.
>
> Regards
> Anil
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Manish Chakravarty
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