re :
> Keith M. Wesolowski wrote:
>> I'd like to propose a project similar to SFW Nevada for
>> the forthcoming opening of the collection previously
>> known as the Solaris Software Companion. This body
>> of software consists of Free and Open Source software
>> not supported by Sun; it installs into /opt/sfw and is
>> delivered with Solaris 10 and previous releases as
>> a "co-bundled" product (that is, it is not actually a part
>> of Solaris and is not installed unless specifically
>> requested).
How about this as a proposal, lets create a project similar to SFW
Nevada which will support and deliver a body of software which consists
of Free and Open Source software not supported by Sun. It will all
install into /opt/csw as Community SoftWare. This software is not
actually a part of Solaris and is not installed unless specifically
requested. This software will respect the requirements of Solaris 8 and
9 and 10 and future revisions also. It will be freely available and
will even include a bug tracking interface for end users to submit and
track bugs. All of the sources will be made available via a public
Subversion repository.
In addition lets go one big step further and open up the project to
people outside and anyone that is qualified will have access to a build
server stack and will be allowed to simply login and work with compilers
and other community people on multiple Solaris systems. The build stack
will be made available and active 7x24x365 and software will be released
via a three stage process :
(1) Software will enter a testing stage and be released
to the public as a raw SVR4 compliant package format.
Any Solaris user may access and use the software and
provide feedback freely.
(2) Software that passes a testing stage will be entered
into a "unstable" software catalog. This will then be
distributed via software site mirrors all over the
world and a user will be able to access individual files
or entire bundles of packages with a software package
tool called "pkg-get". This pkg-get tool will operate
in a fashion similar to the Debian apt-get.
(3) Software that has been released to the public at stage (2)
and no open bugs remain against it will be promoted
with its bug-free dependencies to a "stable" tree once
per quarter.
If we work together it may be possible for Solaris users and OpenSolaris
distro projects to build a significant library of software as well as a
community developer project. I would expect the software library to
grow vastly larger than the old Companion CD ever offered and it will
all be free.
- Blastwave.org opened in October 2002 and offers all of the above.
- There are 1407 software packages in the unstable tree.
- There are 1209 packages in the stable tree.
All free to the Solaris user base on both x86 and Sparc sun4m and sun4u
since October 2002 and all of it built by Solaris community members and
dedicated Sun engineers.
The latest incarnation of the project is to include OpenSolaris distro
based servers in the stack for people to work with. The SchilliX server
has been built. The Nexenta server has been bought ( dual Opteron ) and
the Belenix server has also been bought. Central NFS storage has just
been increased to 200GB on a dual array redundant config running Solaris
10 Update 1. The Subversion repository is growing at
http://svn.blastwave.org and the bug tracking system was recently
upgraded. A separate server for bug tracking is being made available.
A port project to the PowerPC architecture is hosted here also at
http://polaris.blastwave.org .
All free to the Solaris and OpenSolaris Community for our mutual growth.
Dennis Clarke
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