Hi All, I wanted to start a discussion about the next release of belenix, and what we need to plan. This had taken shape during a local BOSUG meet, and is now open to everyone in the community.
The upcoming release will make use of all the technologies that have made project Indiana attractive. This includes the caiman installer, ZFS root, hsfs improvements and IPS. BeleniX will be expecting a big surge of users with the next release due as it's biggest bottlenecks (installing to hard disk and packaging) will be cleared. (The upcoming release should be the first KDE based easily installable opensolaris distribution) We need to leverage this influx to the maximum. With this intent we should consider: *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. *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? (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*) * Other topics? If you are willing to take up one of the tasks, join into this discussion with your thoughts. Regards Anil
