Johan Hartzenberg schrieb: > Yes. Download it, use it, report problems, suggest RFEs (requests for > enhancement), ask questions about it, answer questions about it.
Okay I will go for that route first, gonna see where it'll get me. :) > It would be nice if we could hold an OpenSolaris hackathon, like what > Nexenta is doing - Everybody picks a program, utility or library and > make it into an IPS package. While I like the idea in general, I am biased towards the "make-yourself-a-package" idea as it is (in my opinion) likely to keep people from contributing because they don't know enough about IPS even though they were able to get a given application built and running on OpenSolaris. So maybe this would be an interesting approach: Pick an utility everyone and document how to get it built on OpenSolaris - which dependencies to install off IPS, which dependencies to manually fetch, build, install, which configure / make / whatever switches to use, which other problems to eventually resolve in order to get it working. Put to a wiki of some sort, this would at the very least ease things for all those wanting to manually build an application missing from the IPS repositories on their OS installation. Plus, might it eventually also help those knowing about IPS in getting these applications packaged? Just an idea, of course... :) Cheers & all the best, Kristian
