This makes for an interesting read: http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=193064&tstart=0
The Nexenta guys seem to have done some amazing work as well. Could we have a demo of Nexenta at the next BOSUG meet? On Jan 20, 2008 1:33 PM, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote: > Manish Chakravarty wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > > > my two cents: > > > > > > *How easily can a new developer join the BeleniX project? > > - We'll be moving to SFE.. where will the belenix sources be > hosted? > > - Are we setting up rules to give contributor status? > > - Is there a need for a constitution for the belenix community? > > > > *Building BeleniX > > - We had discussed checking the performance of a gcc-built belenix > > prototype and going ahead with it. Is this still in the plans? > > This was discussed due to the inablity to redistribute Sun Studio > > freely. It's currently only freely downloadable. > > > > > > I we cant redistribute BeleniX freely. But there is no problem in > > distributing binaries compiled from Sun Studio. > > BeleniX is freely re-distributable. We had an intention to bundle SUN > Studio > with BeleniX but, SUN Studio can't be re-distributed. Essentially the > point > is the toolchain used to build BeleniX components is not completely > free. > > However a gcc-built BeleniX distro from ground up is a massive > proposition > requiring a complete distro-specific build system and a separately > maintained > package repository. It is not practical given the limited resources > of the BeleniX > team. > > Rather it will be practical to base as much of BeleniX work based on > existing > community effort as possible. Leverage off Indiana and existing Pkg > repositories > etc. will avoid having to separately maintain a complete distro stack > and better > participate in OpenSolaris community developments and contributions. > > > > > How about we try a quick and dirty build of KDE4 on belenix? > > It already builds well on S10. > > I am upbeat about KDE4 because KBE ( the build system) is designed to > > work on S10, has very few requirements (it pulls all the stuff it > > needs from the net ) and should work without a problem > > I would be interested in trying this out. > > Fantastic. There will be a Native Zone based build environment available > for BeleniX quite soon, based off the distro constructor. I will send > out a > notification once that is available for download on Genunix. > > In the meantime I am getting KDE3 spec files into the SFE repository. > These > are gcc-built and I am quite happy with the performance I am getting. > I am > on KDE 3.5.8 right now and it's stable. > > > > > Since the build system is being migrated to .spec files, we would end > > up with a scenario like > > > > ON ==> OpenSolaris > > X ==> OpenSolaris > > The plan is to pull all OpenSolaris consolidations and community > contributions > from pkg.opensolaris.org saving a huge amount of effort. Whatever is > not on > pkg.opensolaris.org is to be built out of SFE which includes the KDE > stuff > below. > > In the longer run the intention is to have a pkg.belenix.org that is > synced up with > pkg.opensolaris.org and contains additional packages, some > BeleniX-specific. > > > KDE ==> SpecFiles > > other Software ==> SFE > > > > Which would reduce effort required for maintenance , help us > > concentrate on the branding, look and feel and general end-user > > experience of belenix. > > > > How does this sound? > > Precisely. That is the intention to leverage OpenSolaris community > efforts > as much as possible and concentrate on value-addition. > > > > > Can I have a copy of the belenix sources in the next BOSUG meet? Let > > me try and build KDE4 on this. May be "borrow" a few Sabayon tricks > > for belenix? > > Sure. > > > > > > > *Website issues > > - The website needs to be upgraded. How do we find new artwork. > > - How good is the current bugs database? > > - Can we have all the links resolve to belenix.org > > <http://belenix.org>? (and not to > > sarovar or genunix) > > > > * An alpha release > > -Can we have a quick alpha release before the 0.7? This could be > > distributed minimally on the list and we can try it out on as many > > different types of hardware to clean up issues that linger on after > > release (like the math library issue in 0.6 and install issue in > 0.6*) > > > > > > BeleniX 0.7 Alpha (or call it Belenix KDE4 Developer Preview ;) if you > > so wish ) makes sense. Belenix is of course a KDE based distribution. > > > > Can we sync up at the next BOSUG meet? I'd like to take the last > > Belenix build, put SunStudio and KBE on it and give KDE4 a try on > Belenix. > > Better to use the Indiana environment since that is what BeleniX 0.7 > will be > based on. Use distro constructor and rebuild a new Indiana ISO based off > the current pkg repo. Glyn sent out instructions on how to setup a > JDS CBE > in Indiana, KBE should be no different. > > > > > > > > > * Other topics? > > > > Let's take cues from Sabayon and make the end-user experience a little > > more polished. > > Yes. > > > > > > > If you are willing to take up one of the tasks, join into this > > discussion with your thoughts. > > > > One way to contribute to BeleniX right now is to contribute to the > Spec Files Extra (SFE) > repository. Add new packages to that or build and debug existing > packages on Solaris > Express or better Indiana. > > Regards, > Moinak. > > > > > Regards > > Anil > > _______________________________________________ > > belenix-discuss mailing list > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > > <http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss> > > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Warm Regards, > > Manish Chakravarty > > ---- > > Associate Software Developer > > Spike Source > > +919980250606 > > --- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > belenix-discuss mailing list > > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/belenix-discuss > > http://groups.google.com/group/belenix-discuss > > > > -- Warm Regards, Manish Chakravarty ---- Associate Software Developer Spike Source +919980250606 --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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