I have one participant expressing interest offline in participating. I have sent across a mail to the campus ambassadors here to reach out to some of the students.
About 4-5 participants in all would be just right to initiate this. If you have not responded and would like to participate, do so immediately. Manish has been working on the kde front, and I am hoping this work can continue and taken to completion as part of this event. Manish? The recently ported GNU parted is another piece of software which the developers should find it of interest to bundle it as a solaris package. regards Shiv ps: The source code base that was used to build the latest release of Belenix is now available with me. The list of Belenix softwares that already have SFE available and those that need authoring is compiled. On 7/8/07, S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote: > As most of you are aware, Belenix currently does not have packaging > support. This is intended to be included in one of the future > releases. > Once packaging support is available the huge bunch of softwares need > to be made available in the form of SVR4 packages. The SFE (rpm spec > file like) based approach is well suited for this. > > In one of the earlier discussions in bosug there was considerable > interest expressed for organizing a hackathon. > > I would like to propose to have one with a goal to realize all > softwares as "SVR4 Packages on Belenix". > > *Please respond with your thoughts about the same*. > > People from parts of the world outside Bangalore: > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > It makes it easier for people staying closeby to participate. Incase > there is interest for participation from parts of the world outside > Bangalore, *please do respond* expressing your thoughts and also with > suggestions as to how it can be planned to make the participation > happen. > > I am putting down a few thoughts below regarding the scope, duration > and participation. These are points only to trigger the discussion and > the way it turns need not be anything like the below. > > Scope: > ====== > [1] Primary goal : Author spec files for all the softwares not in SVR4 > packaging format in Belenix > > [2] Optional Level1 : Write an apt-get kind of tool to pull binary > packages and install on the system. (a new tool or adapt existing tool > such as pkg-get from blastwave) > > [3] Optional Level2 : Build a gtk frontend to provide a GUI front end > like Synaptic Manager. We may limit the scope here to display list of > packages (with dependancies?) from the localhost. > > Duration: > ======== > 1 Day = ~6hours > > Who can participate: > ================ > * Basic level of comfort with shell environment and Solaris > environment is all that is required > * Anything beyond this (such as gtk, rpm specs, ksh/python > programming, etc) would be a plus. > (Required additional technical inputs will be provided for people to > take things forward from this point) > > If you have reached till here, thanks for reading through. I would > look forward to your comments. > > thanks & regards > Shiv >
