Hi All, Here is a quick update, the event happened as planned and it was fun !
What we came out with : 35 specs for softwares listed at http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/bosug/news (the page also has the specs that were created) We were 9 of us, of which 5 were students. Ananth Anil (student) Indraneel (student) Jayanthi (student) Komala (student) Ravishankar (student) Sanjeev Saurabh Shivakumar Except for Ananth and Myself who had some familiarity with the tool, everybody else were first timers. It was fantastic - be it the initial unexpected hiccups with networking issues, setting up the environment or getting the first spec file and each one of us earning our lunches ! Thanks to Laca for being online till 3am(his time) ! and also to tomww(IRC name) for coming online ! To Kira for giving it a good shot at it (again at 3am her time) To Madhu for the greate job of providing the infrastructure. To Ananth for sharing the planning efforts. Apart from many things thanks for managing the online IRC participation on #bosug. And to all who participated for the wonderful weekend that we had.... best regards Shiv PS: The attachment about porting details referred to in the below mail is available at http://opensource.shivakumar.info/Porting_to_Solaris.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: S h i v <[email protected]> Date: Aug 10, 2007 8:22 PM Subject: Ready to go.... Hi Group, I hope all of you are set to get started... Lets meet at 10am tomorrow (same place where tutorial was held). We'll have some inputs to draw our work upon 1. Belenix sources that were used to build previous Belenix release 2. Some of the sources that we intend to port to OpenSolaris will be available on the server 3. The spec file repository already has 520+ softwares for which spec files are written. I have gone through all the patches for the same and pooled the code corrections done. I am attaching the same for your reference. This will be available tomorrow. What you need to do: 1. In case you need VMware images to be put onto your laptop, it helps to come early so that we can make space on your laptop and provide the setup VMware environment on your system with the required network connectivity. 2. If you have any favourity softwares that you want to port, either get the sources or have the list of softwares so that the sources can be downloaded during the event. Kira Morrow (from US) & Ananth.A(from mumbai) had registered to participate online. We will be using the #bosug IRC channel on freenode.net for staying online. Incase of Kira, the hackathon starts at midnight 00:00hrs US time! Kira drop me mail about the time during which you will be online. Kira/Ananth, I'll provide a suggested list of softwares that you may build. The softwares will be chosen such that there are not too many dependencies on other softwares. I'll send out the list a few hours before the start of the event. *** Lets gift ourselves with a fantastic session tomorrow... *** cheers Shiv
