[OSUNIX-dev] Looking around

["C. Bergström"]

Mark Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 6:54 AM, Cyril Plisko <cyril.plisko at mountall.com> wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 2:23 PM, "C. Bergström"
>> <cbergstrom at netsyncro.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi Cyril,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the enthusiasm!
>>>
>>> As I mentioned on the @os.o lists I'm still drafting up the introduction,
>>> but I hope the archive begins to get some momentum in the coming months.
>>>  One of the biggest questions I've been trying to answer is which direction
>>> should we take this?
>>>
>>> There's a big difference between onnv-gate for noobies and lets discuss
>>> advanced or controversial OpenSolaris technology development. Maybe both can
>>> work well on the same list, but I think it depends on volume. While I don't
>>> anticipate this happening tomorrow I'd like to avoid it turning into
>>> something as chaotic as lkml.
>>>       
>> Sure thing.
>>
>>     
>>> Please anyone feel free to speak up and share your ideas or goals.
>>>       
>> I was thinking of having infrastructure similar to sf.net at, say
>> genunix.org, which will help people get started with OpenSolaris
>> development with virtually no overhead.
>> Anyone care to comment ?
>>     
>
> Prophetic, it would seem.
>
> Sorry for not responding sooner -- I'm only now going through about a
> month's backlog of email-to-respond-to.
>
> Where would you begin?  I'm assuming we're talking about a whole new
> repository for the project, ignoring the Sun-owned and Sun-controlled
> infrastructure hosting the OpenSolaris development currently?  Bug
> tracking, mailing lists, etc?
>
> Speaking of sf.net, why not host it there?
>   
Part of my goal is to build a community where there are /good/ forums 
and an easy way for different project/sub groups to communicate.. I'd 
rather see an umbrella project that has a vibrant community than just 
try to push whatever bleeding edge green field design I'm hacking on.

To give an update..

1) Website
    a. Jive software was kind enough to give us a free license to 
clearspace community
    b. The designer I paid is /done/, but there's a few small nits I 
hope to have fixed now or later
    c. I need to populate more content from my notes/others/existing 
wiki we have

2) The Sun onnv-gate is currently being mirrored every hour.  I'll fork 
that once I have time to get a script in place which will continue to 
pull updates from them and notify the devs when there's a conflict.  For 
now I'm working with patches against a vanilla gate.

hg clone http://hg.osunix.org/mirror/onnv-gate

3) All my patches/build work is published inside the developer zones, 
but trying to clean that up to a point where it's usable outside of the 
OSUNIX env.

mailing lists and other things will come once the zone is self hosting. 

For the zone to be self hosting.. I'll need icedtea6 which depends on 
oxrg.. I have details on how I plan to merge the fox-gate patches with 
the new packaging..  Most of this stuff will be in a big TODO list I'm 
working on.  From there those who don't want to join #ospkg on irc can 
have a more clear overview of how to help/progress.

Cheers,

./C