Erast Benson wrote:
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?
Based on the recent Companion discussions, there seems
to be a consensus that it'd be good to have additional
"standard" libraries. In other words, an "auxilliary set"
(/opt/unified/lib, or whatever) that would supplement
the standard ones that the distros already inherit from
Nevada's /usr/lib.
The thing that would make them standard is if some/all
distros and ports projects agreed on certain things, such as:
- What the actual contents would be
- The path where these libraries would reside (e.g.
/opt/unified/lib or whatever)
- A collaborative way to maintain them
Eric
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
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