Re: [ilugd] the closed development of the open source indian distro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Karanbir Singh wrote: Tushar Abraham Mathew wrote: Dear Mr. Singh, we would like to make some clarifications on what you pointed out. BOSS is not intended to be distibuted behind closed doors. Though it was intended mainly for the Government and Educational domains, it has already been distributed free of charge to a number of colleges and other institutions. Excellent news Tushar but from your mail it also does get conveyed that it was meant as a Government and Educational distribution and one of the USPs (if I may use that term) is L10n. So, are all these additions that BOSS makes being pushed upstream viz to GNOME, SCIM/m17n etc ? Given that BOSS was targeted at Government and Education is there a roadmap to create hardware test suites for certifying and validating hardware ? Are there plans to create an ISV environment around the distribution ? What are the projected release cycles for BOSS ? Is there a roadmap I can track ? I notice that BOSS is being tested against LSB test batteries - is there a particular reason why this is being done ? Can BOSS derivatives be created ? Will the source code be made available online or need I ask for it ? How can I (re)use BOSS for a custom spin ? If you think you could contribute in some way to BOSS, please let us know what your strengths are. You could add your enhancements to BOSS and if found worthwhile we could always bundle them in our next version. So, there's no method for me to contribute directly into a public SCM for BOSS ? Lastly, I don't think Karanbir meant distribution behind closed doors - - what he did point out was development behind a non-transparent process. It would be great if BOSS's plans for a community building effort were discussed in detail. :Sankarshan - -- You see things; and you say 'Why?'; But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?' - George Bernard Shaw -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF8nk8XQZpNTcrCzMRAksAAJ9YjvzYfW2wI8gKAtaOiBWyadSRDwCgk6JX dYIdgvCgE7W90zBEAh3ABys= =TxK4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] the closed development of the open source indian distro
On 10:24:12 am 03/10/07 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Can BOSS derivatives be created ? Will the source code be made available online or need I ask for it ? How can I (re)use BOSS for a custom spin ? [...] Is it even an option *not* to make source code for packages in BOSS available? I thought that BOSS was derived from Debian, contains many GPL packages, and is publicly distributed, ergo, the source code has to be made available. I have been meaning to test this by writing to the address on the BOSS CDs. Maybe I should do so now. Regards, Gora ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] the closed development of the open source indian distro
On 10-Mar-07, at 6:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can BOSS derivatives be created ? Will the source code be made available online or need I ask for it ? How can I (re)use BOSS for a custom spin ? [...] Is it even an option *not* to make source code for packages in BOSS available? I thought that BOSS was derived from Debian, contains many GPL packages, and is publicly distributed, ergo, the source code has to be made available. I have been meaning to test this by writing to the address on the BOSS CDs. Maybe I should do so now would make more sense if this discussion took place on the chennai mailing list as all the BOSS devels are subscribed there -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] the closed development of the open source indian distro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10:24:12 am 03/10/07 Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Can BOSS derivatives be created ? Will the source code be made available online or need I ask for it ? How can I (re)use BOSS for a custom spin ? [...] Is it even an option *not* to make source code for packages in BOSS available? I thought that BOSS was derived from Debian, contains many GPL packages, and is publicly distributed, ergo, the source code has to be made available. I have been meaning to test this by writing to the address on the BOSS CDs. Maybe I should do so now. Gora, I, for one, would welcome this move - please do go ahead and write to them asking for the sources. I can see that there is a public svn on their website - but with nothing in it. And they dont seem to make sources available to download along with the binaries either. - KB [1]: dropping CC for people known to watch the iliud list. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] the closed development of the open source indian distro
On 11-Mar-07, at 6:57 AM, Karanbir Singh wrote: [1]: Where should I be looking to find the people _really_ doing the development and any managerial roles involved ? at CDAC chennai [2]: What is the chennai mailing list and where can I find the address for that ? mailing list of ilug chennai - http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/ listinfo/ilugc -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
