Significant contributions will be featured on our homepage. And its
not just fame that comes your way.. we also have few small bounties to
give away.
That hackathon starts on the 23rd of this month. Join us on #nexenta
to get started.
Hi Anil,
I'm not sure if the bounties page is up date? There's two that seem
interesting..
1) building onnv-gate on NCP2
2) building an alternative "distro"
It's hard to find, but I know exact requirements for building
onnv-gate.. The details on this seem kinda fuzzy, because even something
small like changing the postgresql version from 8.2 to 8.3 could require
a patch (eg..src/libs/mms/) and nightly would just show the missing
lib.. so for $150 what exactly are you hoping for? What's the current
state? (Sorry, but I also find it rather ironic/funny that erast needs
to use SXCE to build nexenta core)
For the other part of this email.. I'm sure many people appreciate
trying to get new developers interested with small cash rewards, but
unless you're offering chunks like gsoc I'm not sure it'll really
attract much attention. (I could be wrong) Just a thought.. What about
actually trying to push some sort of innovation? I know you guys have
some CIFS workgroup patches that are interesting, but what else is
Nexenta really doing? I don't mean this sarcastically, but why should
anyone even really care? If you say Solaris kernel + ubuntu/debian
userland.. I'm going to laugh..
For what it's worth.. some of my project would make it a lot easier for
you guys to build onnv-gate and or highly customize it to your needs.
If you simply follow the 20 year old monolithic Sun style packaging..
You'll always be stuck like this. If anyone out there is /really/
interested in entirely open source OpenSolaris technology I'd love to
hear back. So far with the help of others the *only* thing with closed
bits is libc.. Which boils down to how to implement wide char support..
there's options for it and all are obtainable.. Anil.. maybe you could
help and put a decent bounty on this?
When I mean fully open.. I mean from bootstrapping jamvm so you can
build icedtea6 to using small tricks like ksh93's built-in tail/printf..
Sorry if I'm rambling..
Thanks
./Christopher
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