+1
On 07/ 8/09 08:04 AM, 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.
>
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