I'm just beginning to play with the IPS system and have created a few packages to play with. I really thing that this is pretty impressive so far. In fact, I came into this thinking that it was at least an order of magnitude more complicated than it turned out to be. Very cool! However, this has brought up some questions that eventually need to be answered:
1) How do we find out what is and isn't being worked on? For example, I needed the gnu make package to get started (dmake seems to have some issues that I don't understand). I couldn't figure out which package it may or may not already be part of. Now that I've built it, it would be nice If I could make it a package for others to use (unless someone else is doing that already). 2) If I have a package that I want to contribute, what is the sign off procedure in order to have my contribution included officially? In thinking of (2), I think we may want a two tiered system... We can submit to a "unstable, beta, etc." repository and then once it's been properly reviewed for (QA and that it follows IPS standards) it is moved to the official repository. I'm very excited at finally being able to contribute in an area that will give a lot of bang for the limit time I have to do so. Gary This message posted from opensolaris.org
