Michal Bielicki wrote: > As a person coming from a post communist country, comittees and similar > always scaare me ;) > So > I found out that to create a community we need to apply to the OGB and > that the PLOSUG as a Project can not > be one of the Sponsors of another project. Since most of the packagers > are currently on the Desktop list I am CCing this to the Desktop list > and CCing it as a request for a new Community to the OGB as well > > cheers > > Michal > > Michal Bielicki wrote: > >> S h i v wrote: >> >> >>> The desktop-community[1] members, SFW consolidation[2] list members & >>> Image Packaging System project[3] members might be interested in this. >>> You may want to consider mailing to those lists as well. >>> >>> SFE project is an excellent effort to port softwares to opensolaris by >>> members of desktop community. Lots of them are available in the >>> repository (http://pkgbuild.sourceforge.net/spec-files-extra). >>> >>> best regards >>> Shiv >>> >>> [1] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/desktop >>> [2] http://opensolaris.org/os/project/sfwnv/discussions >>> [3] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/pkg >>> >>> >>> >>> >> I know, I ported unixODBC to SFE and extended libcurl to be 32/64bit in >> there as well. I wanted to first follow the classic approval lines >> and than pass it to the other lists with the question who would be >> interested. One of the reasons for us doing this proposal is exactly the >> confusion that gets created >> cause most portingis hidden in other projects, like Desktop, which for >> example is the totaly wrong place for my porting efforts which are all >> in the VoIP server space :) >> >> >>> On Feb 4, 2008 5:52 PM, Michal Bielicki <michal.bielicki at voiceworks.pl> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hi Guys, >>>> I wanted to create this for a year now, but somehow never got the >>>> proposal together. So since now there seem to be quite a bunch of people >>>> that want to support this, here is my proposal. I am ready to manage and >>>> handle the project and would be also very very thankful for comments, >>>> suggestions, >>>> proposals and so on. >>>> >>>> Project/Community Proposal for the OpenSolaris Software Porters Community >>>> Short Name >>>> Porting Software to OpenSolaris >>>> >>>> Sponsoring Communities >>>> Desktop ? >>>> Polish OpenSolaris UserGroup >>>> Indiana ? >>>> >>>> Initial participants >>>> Michal Bielicki >>>> Damian Wojslaw >>>> Kristopher Januszajtis-Neale >>>> Ed Pimentel >>>> Alexander Feldman >>>> Jay Fenton >>>> Mike Jerris >>>> Michal Pryc >>>> >>>> >>>> Any OGB members interested? >>>> Any Indiana participants interested? >>>> Anyone else interested? >>>> >>>> Description: >>>> >>>> The project is to create a central space for the collection of >>>> information, exchange of information >>>> discussion and repository storage of software projects that are being >>>> ported to Solaris and OpenSolaris. >>>> We would like to collect all the scattered information, like mileks >>>> tutorial on IPS packaging, Laca's SFE project >>>> and all the other nice and helpful sources in a central space and >>>> herewith make porting software to OpenSolaris >>>> a far easier Job than it is now, with a supporting IRC channel, a >>>> forum/mailing list for experience exchange and >>>> discussion and ultimately actively work to get sponsors to provide CPU >>>> cycle for Projects that would like to port >>>> their code to OpenSolaris (Something along the line of Novells/SuSE >>>> Open Build Servers, but for OpenSolaris ?). >>>> From personal experience we know that porting can be a horrendously tricky >>>> job if you need to find all the information yourself. >>>> >>>> >>>> Project part: >>>> Create and maintain a database of porting projects (SFE, Sunfreeware, >>>> blastwave, .....) >>>> Create and maintain a list of links to all information available about >>>> porting software to solaris/opensolaris/Indiana/whatsitsname >>>> Create and maintain a database of documents related to the same >>>> Create new documentation, which helps and explains how to port software >>>> to the aforementioned >>>> Try to create a pool of ressources for porters (ask sponsors for CPU >>>> cycles, repository space ... ... ... ) >>>> Yes I know ... loads of work :) >>>> >>>> Community part: >>>> An information exchange forum/mailing list where porters can discuss >>>> experiences and people can ask if someone is already >>>> working on a specific package >>>> A wiki that will help create part of the project part >>>> A portal to all the project part >>>> >>>> ----------------- >>>> >>>> Any input on what else could be done is very appreciated. >>>> >>>> cheers >>>> Michal >>>> >>>> -- >>>> -- >>>> Michal Bielicki >>>> CEO >>>> http://www.voiceworks.pl/ >>>> Voice Works Sp. z o.o. z siedziba w Warszawie przy ulicy Polnej 46/14, >>>> 00-644 Warszawa, Polska >>>> wpisana zostala do rejestru przedsiebiorcow prowadzonego przez >>>> Sad Rejonowy dla M.ST.Warszawy w Warszawie, >>>> XII Wydzial Krajowego Rejestru Sadowego pod numerem KRS 0000257259. >>>> NIP 701-00-25-117 >>>> Wysokosc kapitalu zakladowego: 51000,00 PLN >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> advocacy-discuss mailing list >>>> advocacy-discuss at opensolaris.org >>>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> >> > > > Hmm, it's an interesting idea, I don't see anything that would fit better, +1.
James
