[OSUNIX-dev] News for OSUNIX December 2008

["C. Bergström"]

The month of December has been hectic with a lot of action and bug fixes.

To start I'd like thank Tim Spriggs for hosting our clearspace and jira 
instances.

http://bugs.osunix.org/
http://www.osunix.org/

Both of these are now active and time permitting I'll start to move 
issues and content from the old home to the new one.  The clearspace 
instance needs a template and anyone interested in helping with that is 
more than welcome.  My vision is that OSUNIX will be the parent group 
and under this we'll create groups as it makes sense. (voip, x64, 
porting, xen.. etc)

Last Friday I quietly pushed out a release with minor fixes.  If you'd 
like to test any of the pre-alpha bits please feel free to email me and 
I can get you setup with a developer zone.

The next release is planned for January 15th, 2009 which hopefully will 
include enough fixes for the project to be self hosting out of a zone.

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The project currently needs help from people with experience in Python, 
C and debugging kernel related issues.

1) Python - packaging related.  ferringb has done some recent changes to 
pkgcore to make building of XARv2 packages a lot easier, but there is 
still a lot of python code needing to be modified.

2) C - 64bit metainit has a strange bug, there's compilation issues with 
parts of the kernel + SunStudioExpress 10/22 and the list goes on...

I have been including my entirely open source work (including the 
unfinished libc bits) and notes in each release, but will try to get 
that in a state which is more easily reproduced so anyone wanting to 
help can pitch in.

After we are self hosting my company will start a proactive marketing 
campaign to help spur growth and awareness around the community.  We've 
already put a lot of planning in this, but suggestions and other 
advocacy ideas are always welcome.  By building a community where the 
community needs come first I think we can achieve quite a bit.

Happy Holidays & New Year


./Christopher