On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 13:52 -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: > Moinak Ghosh wrote: > > >Erast Benson wrote: > > > > > >>Guys, > >> > >>I were thinking on what would be beneficial for every camp involved into > >>OpenSolaris and related development? What would be useful for NexentaOS, > >>BeleniX, SchilliX, marTux, SCXR, etc ? > >> > >>I think having centralized place (bugzilla, bounty, project management, > >>calendar, etc) for OSS packages would be really beneficial for every > >>camp involved. > >> > >>I came across launchpad.net[1] and I think it could be a really great > >>idea to utilize it for OpenSolaris community. NexentaOS is already > >>registered[2] there, the same way we could register > >>"opensolaris-generic" and other distros where we could collect all our > >>patches and together collaborate on ongoing issues. > >> > >> > >> > > I browsed through the launchpad.net site. It looks like a very useful > >resource. In fact > > I have to put up a open subproject page and track status. I guess > >launchpad will > > provide a good framework for doing this rather than having to > >maintain and keep > > updating a static HTML page. > > > > In general there are bugs that will be common to distros. These can > >be tracked to > > avoid duplication of effort by the various distros. This is a good > >opportunity to > > collaborate. I will register the BeleniX project. > > > >Regards, > >Moinak. > > > > > > Erast, Moinak -- Is launchpad maybe a place where participating projects > could work on standardizing "auxilliary"[1] FOSS libraries?
Standardizing FOSS libraries? An example? AFAIK, its a good place to keep track changes across various distros. But not only for libs, for apps too, like security fixes for Firefox, Mozilla, OpenOffice, Gaim, etc.. Another attractive thing is its Bounty system. Basically, end user could assign his price for particular bug or feature in particular package/distro. After that, developer and user will get in touch, and once feature implemented, developer will be paid off. > Eric > > > [1]: A set of key libraries that are currently being maintained > separately by most (all?) distros and ports systems because they are not > part of Nevada -- or they are in Nevada but deemed unsatisfactory. > > > >>Few great things about launchpad (as I see it): > >> > >>1) It could coexist with existing bug-tracking systems, i.e. we don't > >>have to change NBTS to Malone for instance and re-integrate our internal > >>stuff; > >> > >>2) It provides integrated bounty[3] system. So end user potentially > >>could pay cache for particular fix in his favorite distro; > >> > >>3) Its well done. > >> > >>[1] http://launchpad.net > >>[2] http://launchpad.net/distros/nexenta > >>[3] http://launchpad.net/bounties > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org -- Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
