bring it on +1
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > 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. > > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org >
