[ug-bosug] [belenix-discuss] Belenix 0.7 plans
Manish Chakravarty
manishchaks at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 01:08:48 PST 2008
This makes for an interesting read:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=193064&tstart=0
The Nexenta guys seem to have done some amazing work as well.
Could we have a demo of Nexenta at the next BOSUG meet?
On Jan 20, 2008 1:33 PM, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote:
> Manish Chakravarty wrote:
> > 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.
>
> BeleniX is freely re-distributable. We had an intention to bundle SUN
> Studio
> with BeleniX but, SUN Studio can't be re-distributed. Essentially the
> point
> is the toolchain used to build BeleniX components is not completely
> free.
>
> However a gcc-built BeleniX distro from ground up is a massive
> proposition
> requiring a complete distro-specific build system and a separately
> maintained
> package repository. It is not practical given the limited resources
> of the BeleniX
> team.
>
> Rather it will be practical to base as much of BeleniX work based on
> existing
> community effort as possible. Leverage off Indiana and existing Pkg
> repositories
> etc. will avoid having to separately maintain a complete distro stack
> and better
> participate in OpenSolaris community developments and contributions.
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> Fantastic. There will be a Native Zone based build environment available
> for BeleniX quite soon, based off the distro constructor. I will send
> out a
> notification once that is available for download on Genunix.
>
> In the meantime I am getting KDE3 spec files into the SFE repository.
> These
> are gcc-built and I am quite happy with the performance I am getting.
> I am
> on KDE 3.5.8 right now and it's stable.
>
> >
> > Since the build system is being migrated to .spec files, we would end
> > up with a scenario like
> >
> > ON ==> OpenSolaris
> > X ==> OpenSolaris
>
> The plan is to pull all OpenSolaris consolidations and community
> contributions
> from pkg.opensolaris.org saving a huge amount of effort. Whatever is
> not on
> pkg.opensolaris.org is to be built out of SFE which includes the KDE
> stuff
> below.
>
> In the longer run the intention is to have a pkg.belenix.org that is
> synced up with
> pkg.opensolaris.org and contains additional packages, some
> BeleniX-specific.
>
> > 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?
>
> Precisely. That is the intention to leverage OpenSolaris community
> efforts
> as much as possible and concentrate on value-addition.
>
> >
> > 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?
>
> Sure.
>
> >
> >
> > *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
> > <http://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.
>
> Better to use the Indiana environment since that is what BeleniX 0.7
> will be
> based on. Use distro constructor and rebuild a new Indiana ISO based off
> the current pkg repo. Glyn sent out instructions on how to setup a
> JDS CBE
> in Indiana, KBE should be no different.
>
> >
> >
> >
> > * Other topics?
> >
> > Let's take cues from Sabayon and make the end-user experience a little
> > more polished.
>
> Yes.
>
> >
> >
> > If you are willing to take up one of the tasks, join into this
> > discussion with your thoughts.
> >
>
> One way to contribute to BeleniX right now is to contribute to the
> Spec Files Extra (SFE)
> repository. Add new packages to that or build and debug existing
> packages on Solaris
> Express or better Indiana.
>
> Regards,
> Moinak.
>
> >
> > Regards
> > Anil
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Warm Regards,
> > Manish Chakravarty
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Warm Regards,
Manish Chakravarty
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