As you may have already seen on slashdot[1]. Debian Sarge has been registered against OSDL's CGL 2.0.2 specification as a CGL distribution[2]. Debian has the distinction of being the only freely available CGL distribution.
First off, we would like apologize to the project for not sending out an announcement to developers sooner. We'd planned to send this out about two weeks before DebConf, but we got distracted by the details of what list to send it to, what should be in place first, etc, and apparently just dropped the ball. So, what exactly *has* been done? From a technical perspective, very little. What HP has done is to fund a CGL registration of Sarge as-is. In other words, no modifications to Sarge were made for this registration. Registration does not imply 100% compliance; in fact, Sarge is not 100% CGL-compliant. As such, this registration process also doubled as a way to perform a gap analysis and see where Sarge falls short, and what we would need to do to make future releases compliant, should this become a project goal. The primary goal of registering Debian with CGL is to have a completely open and community managed base for developing CGL features. We would like to see if there's sufficient interest to create a Debian-CGL subproject. Ideally this would result in a fully integrated CDD (Custom Debian Distribution), but might start out with a backports archive on top of sarge that would increase its level of CGL-compliance. We really would like Debian releases to continue to be registered as CGL distributions, and we welcome anyone that wants to help. We started a wiki[1] for this project a couple of months ago. We do not yet have a dedicated mailing list for this project (chicken/egg), but for now any CDD-related discussions should happen on -custom. If there's enough interest in this subproject, we'll ask the listmasters to create a dedicated list for discussions. We have also created a #debian-cgl channel on OFTC. Again sorry for the late notice. [1] http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/06/05/1713247 [2] http://osdl.org/lab_activities/carrier_grade_linux/registration.html [3] http://wiki.debian.org/Debian-CGL?highlight=%28CGL%29 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
