Christopher Kampmeier wrote: > Leaders of Installation and Packaging and Appliances Communities, > > This message is request your sponsorship for the establishment of a > "JeOS" or "Just enough Operating System" project as part of the > OpenSolaris Installation and Packaging community. > > Although we've discussed this project with Dave Miner and have his > sponsorship support, we'd also like to hear from the other leaders and > members of these communities. >
As noted, I support this proposal. We've had several private discussions of this proposal over the last few months, and while it obviously overlaps with elements of the IPS, Caiman, and Indiana projects, I view it as having a different focus than any of them, as it is really an application of the former two to a couple of specific problem spaces (and thus will drive requirements on those projects, as noted in the proposal). At this point I view the Indiana project as being more or less complete, at least as it was originally defined, and thus not an appropriate venue. We did discuss the question of whether this should be its own project, or just a separate mailing list under one of the existing projects. I think a separate list is certainly justified based on the traffic levels of caiman-discuss & pkg-discuss. A separate project is justified to me based on marketing the project as something that's of serious interest to the OpenSolaris community (which seems to be the case based on many discussions on many lists). I hope that making it a project will help it attract contributions from current non-contributors to OpenSolaris who have this area as a specific interest. Dave > Please review and respond to this request by end of Thursday this week. > > Once we have more sponsorship feedback, we'll ask Dave to trigger the > project setup request. > > Thanks, > Chris Kampmeier > > > Background > ========== > If you are not familiar with JeOS, see: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_enough_operating_system > > To get the ball rolling in this project we will be publishing a > prototype form of an OpenSolaris 2008.11 JeOS this week. This new > project will begin shaping a 2009.06 iteration of JeOS prototype that is > in its early stage of definition. > > Project Description > =================== > Focuses on the definition and delivery of reduced forms of OpenSolaris > for headless server, small system and hardware appliances deployments > using both virtual machine (VM) image and bare metal installation > techniques. > > Scope > ===== > * Provide an anchor for discussions and RFEs concerning OpenSolaris JeOS > capabilities. > > * Define OpenSolaris profiles and associated meta-packages geared to > reduced sized installations. > > * Deliver ready-to-use, developer quality OpenSolaris JeOS VM images for > popular v12n platforms and aligned with named OpenSolaris releases. > > * Work with the OpenSolaris program to plan for the productization of > JeOS images and JeOS install techniques. > ** Help integrate building of JeOS images into standard OpenSolaris > build process. > ** Help drive scoping of testing required for production supported JeOS > images. > > * Define out-of-the-box experience for the JeOS images. > > * Ensure standard security hardening techniques are applied to JeOS images. > > * Provide input into other efforts to ensure OpenSolaris properly > integrates on various system virtualization and cloud platforms. > > * Complement various forms of establishing OpenSolaris JeOS > installations such as Automated Installer and Distro and VM Constructor > by providing JeOS-oriented input to them on requirements, install > profiles, meta-packages, etc. > > Initial Contributors > ==================== > * Rudolf Kutina > * Gabor Puhalla > * Chris Kampmeier > * Kohsuke Kawaguchi > > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss
