To: Hernán Saltiel & Community User Groups The community needs resources to maintain the components updated by the various teams. For the upcoming Hackathon and user meetings, users interested in building a 'community distro' or providing support for it should know where to look for help.
The offloads can be through the current major distro providers: SchilliX, Belenix, Nexenta, Milax, EON, Korona, and Jaris. Users can use those distros to provide current solutions or provide feedback/bug reporting on what they would like to see improved. Also, users can work with those distros in doing the work. IPS repositories are needed in geographic locations to support their local user groups. The /dev repository has about 1730 packages that can be compressed to a DVDs for global distribution or can use the older OSOL 2009.06 distro for initial setup. The goal here is to support the pkg(5) team in using IPS as a package management solution and provided 'basic' docs on how to use it and keep it updated. I'll mention Package Factory and SourceJuicer. These were concepts to provide users with a way to have packages compiled through an "automated" build engine (SJ) through a front-end web interface (PF/SJ). You could provide an URL to your FOSS packages with some basic package definition and purpose through Package Factory, then Package Factory would send this information off to automate a build. The community could pick up on this concept to provide a system of this nature. Users can ensure the Wikipedia info located here is accurate and up-to-date: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSolaris The 'community' people that could be contacted for expertise in OpenSolaris distro creation and repository support: Ref: https://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=122454&tstart=0 Getting ON sources through web access (Genunix/Mercurial)? see Cyril Plisko Jaris, led by Kotaro-san, a Japanese-centric desktop distro. SchilliX, led by Joerg Shilling, a server-centric development distro. Belenix, led by Moinak Ghosh, a general-purpose desktop and graphics distro. Jeos, led by Rudolf Kutina, on VM builds LiveUSB creation, led by Hiroshi Chonan, on LiveUSB builds Korona, led by Pavel Heimlich, a KDE-centric distro. EON, led by Andre Lue, NAS/ZFS storage solution marTux, led by Martin Bochnig, first community distribution for SPARC workstations MilaX, led by Alexander Eremin, mini recovery CD/USB distro Nexenta/NexentaStor, led by Anil Gulecha and Garrett d' Amore, on OpenSolaris/Ubuntu-based (Debian) community distro and advanced storage solutions. StormOS, led by Andrew Stormont, a lightweight desktop OS based on Nexenta and Xfce. OSUNIX project, led by C. Bergstrom (codestr0m) and Max Bruning, distro and expertise in the best of OpenSolaris technologies Device drivers, led by people like Jürgen Keil and Masayuki Murayama, on their expertise on various device drivers. Blastwave/OpenCSW for advanced Solaris-based package management and FOSS porting support. So you have a lot of community people that can help as well as many user groups. ~ Ken Mays Atlanta, Georgia (USA) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
