We need to formally vote on this now so that it can be set up before
the freeze on new projects goes into place in a couple of weeks for
the website migration.
Obviously, I vote +1.
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Project Name: X Consolidation
Project URL name: x-cons
Initial leader: alanc
Initial participants: alanc, jacotton, nivedita, skk, steleman
Sponsoring Community: X Window System (x_win)
Related Projects: Open Development Infrastructure (opendev)
Discussion list: xwin-discuss [existing community list]
SCM commit list: x-cons-notify [new list requested]
The purpose of this project is to migrate the X Consolidation gate for
OpenSolaris to opensolaris.org hosting, and then to serve as the ongoing
home of that gate.
Like the ON gate migration, this is planned to happen in phases:
Phase 1: Publish a read-only external hg mirror of the internal TeamWare gate.
Phase 2: Migrate the internal TeamWare gate to an internal hg master gate.
Publish a read-only external hg clone of the internal hg master gate.
Phase 3: Migrate the hg master gate to opensolaris.org, once the
opendev project has finished developing the infrastructure
needed for this (currently in progress for ON).
This is requested as a new project since the X community itself cannot host
the gate, due to the limitations of the site infrastructure limiting source
code repositories to Projects, not Community Groups.
The differences between this project and the existing Fully Open X (FOX)
project include:
- This gate will adhere to standard OpenSolaris development practices,
including requirements for each commit to have:
- bug report filed in appropriate defect tracking system
- code review, per current X gate policies
- WebRTI approval
Unfortunately, that means until the opendev project has completed the
infrastructure needed, that external commits will have to go through a
Sun internal sponsor for integration.
- The FOX gates contain experimental changes and changes made for the other
distros using those gates which have not been accepted for the main
OpenSolaris gate.
The FOX project will be left operating in parallel, though I don't know how
long I will continue to manually resync that gate with the main
OpenSolaris/Nevada gate given the increasing divergence and amount of manual
merging required.
