On Mon, Nov 19, 2007 at 09:27:13AM -0800, Gary Gendel wrote: > 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).
You should join pkg-discuss, which is dedicated to IPS. You should also sign up for a bugzilla account on defect.opensolaris.org/bz, and take a look at the development/pkg product. Any bugs owned by qa-pkg-* are unowned. I'm not sure what your issues were with dmake, but switching to gmake won't help -- the makefiles don't use GNU syntax. Just use make, and everything should be fine. It's a quick build, so the parallelism dmake gets you doesn't help much. > 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? You probably need a contributor agreement on file, but I'm not sure. > 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. Interesting idea. But for the moment, code review by people familiar with the area you're working in is probably sufficient. > 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. Cool! Welcome aboard. Danek
