Activities for the next maintenance release of BeleniX are starting as indicated in the mail below. People interested in participating would need to join belenix-dev at opensolaris.org for the discussion.
-Shiv ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: S h i v <shivakumar...@gmail.com> Date: Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 7:08 AM Subject: Tasks for next release (V0.7.1 & V0.8) To: BeleniX Development <belenix-dev at opensolaris.org>, Belenix Discuss <belenix-discuss at opensolaris.org> We'll have a maintenance release with bug-fixes and few changes as indicated below. This is primarily about V0.7.1 Some of the changes are a preparation to get the backend act right before the next major release V0.8. Suggestions are welcome. People interested in contributing are welcome to discuss these on belenix-dev at opensolaris.org BeleniX V0.7.1 ================= 1. Flash player to be included 2. Moving to KDE 3.5.9 (?). Check the possibility. (The KDE 3.5.9 maintenance release was done during Mid Feb 2008 http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.5.9.php). 3. Syncing with the latest FOX release. 4. Caiman slim source hard-codes lot of text. Many of these hard-codings need to be changed for use in BeleniX. Write a tool to automate this. 5. Move to latest slim install build. 6. as assembler, to be included. sunwcpp to be put up on BeleniX tools for the purpose of packaging into. 7. Check possibility of moving to firefox 3. 8. Check the possibility of moving to a newer ON build. V0.7 is based on B81. 9. Include Tim Foster's ZFS tool. 10. Latest updated usbdump(provides persistence) to be included. 11. Moving to IPS is tentatively for V0.8. One needs to figure out how to populate/import the IPS report for the target ON build since such dependency exists. As part of the preparatory step, this exercise needs to be carried out for V0.7.1 timeline. 12. SVN conventions, branching to be finalized. 13. SVN pkgbuild macro for pkg_prefix to be introduced. All new specs to make use of the convention. This helps movement of spec files from BeleniX repo, SFE & spec-files-other repo with minimal overheads. BeleniX V0.8 ================= 1. SFW consolidation - converting into specs. 2. mount_ntfs to be moved from custom code to linux_ntfs (ntfsprogs) 3. Apache frontend with IPS repo .........add/delete other items as things progress.......... Notes ======= 1. V0.7.1 to be released some time in 1st week of June. 2. All the builds to happen with BeleniX 0.7 as the development platform. 3. Package dependency information need verification & some cleaning up. -Shiv
