Just a suggestion: Maybe its unlike the nature of an open-source development community to do so, but how feasible do you think is the idea to use TWITTER for quick short development related updates related to belenix development? Anyone who makes any contribution can just simply tweet about it, including a hash #belenix, and we could setup a Twazzup page to show something like googleio.twazzup.com / javaone.twazzup.com - *real time updates* - we could also put a widget on belenix.org to show the updates LIVE. I do understand that using web 2.0 technologies instead of the vanilla mailing lists / tracs / wikis / SVNs may seem a little going overboard at the time but it is undoubtedly the future. I don't know if this fits this use case that well, so please feel free to suggest otherwise.
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Sriram Narayanan <sriramnrn at gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:16 AM, <samankaya at netscape.net> wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > what's happened to everyone the mailing list has become almost like a > ghost > > town of where binary 1's and 0's used to be are only phantom bits now???? > > > > Well I hope everyone's doing ok and is well!! > > > > I guess everyone must be on high priority work, or vacation :-) > > > > Everyone is busy fixing things at work. I'm in the midst of learning > to fix some things as well as helping colleagues pick up my work. > Moinak is busy in his own way at work. > > > Tomorrow is my last CCNA exam until the certification so I will be on > > holiday for a month or so, I will properly be able to dedicate myself to > > Belenix then, my plans are as follows: > > > > -Finish up with the CyberOS theme for Gnome2 and port it to KDE4 > > -Do the same for the Midnight Gamma theme running on KDE4 currently for > > Gnome2 > > -Start packaging each theme, icon set and other associated files with > > specific instructions as to where they should be placed with the > filesystem > > > > After that we will see!; I'd love to play around with an alpha release of > > 0.8 so that I can install the themes and debug as I go along... the good > > news however is that it seems the JDS icon from Solaris 10/SXCE is GPL2 > as > > it resides in the /usr/share/pixmaps dir and is called > > blueprint-gnome-main-menu indicating that it is customizable, that and > the > > fact that I was given the go-ahead on opensolaris advocacy-discuss too. > Just > > as long as the Java coffee cup didn't get disfigured which it hasn't been > > touched only the color has been altered which I am presuming should be > > alright. > > I spoke to Moinak the day before on development activities. A very > very important thing for Belenix is to decouple the dev environment > from his workstation and to make it reproducible anywhere. There is > some progress on this front, but we've slacked on this. > > I've started to collaborate with some people on making the KDE > userland solaris-aware. All this would be possible only if we have a > working KDE 4.x environment on Belenix. > > Since an entire distro is way more work than just KDE itself, Moinak > put to me that perhaps we should have a upgrade in the repo which > would let you have a KDE 4.4 environment which you could boot into. > > > > > Also just a quick note to finish off; I have migrated my main site > > containing the Belenix sub site to an Apple PowerMac G4 running Fedora 11 > > PPC. This should be far more stable then the Acer laptop the site was > > running on before!!! - And it is a dedicated web serving machine so no > mail > > services or anything like that to slow it down. Good news is that even > while > > running on the laptop the Belenix site at least managed to get nearly > 1000 > > hits this month, am up to 921 shown as being connected to by my Sun Netra > > T105 reverse proxy. > > > > This is really amazing guys, and thank you all very much for taking such > an > > interest in me and my site! :-D - Keep it up..... > > > > :) > > There is an interesting thing that I have realized about Belenix - > Even though the list may be silent, there are a large number of people > who keep watch on Belenix and on development activities. > > Where we (in this case, I) need to improve is on posting documentation > on development environments, and enabling infrastructure for people > who want to contribute to Belenix. > > > Regards and best wishes, > > > > Kaya > > > > ________________________________ > > A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. See yours in just 2 easy steps! > > _______________________________________________ > > belenix-discuss mailing list > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss > > > > > _______________________________________________ > belenix-discuss mailing list > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss > -- Angad Singh http://angadsingh.in -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/belenix-discuss/attachments/20090728/64c0f73e/attachment.html>
