My +1
as well ... -- Martin Bochnig On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Alan Coopersmith<Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> 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 >
