Dan Price wrote: > On Thu 03 Nov 2005 at 07:39AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > > Since I'm going to ask a question about some problems porting a > > particular app to [Open]Solaris (in another thread), it occurred to > > me: why not have a forum for that topic in general? The more apps run > > on [Open]Solaris, the better it is for everyone. Further, in some > > Richard, > > Kudos. I've been meaning to start such a community for some time now, > but have been too busy. > > I strongly agree with this idea, and I think it would be good to > investigate a multi-pronged approach: > > - Create a place for porters to ask and answer technical > questions. > > - Create a master "wish list" of open source apps we'd like to port: > - What the app is, what it does > - What needs porting (is it fine tuning? major functionality? > clean integration with SMF?... what's the issue?) > - Possible funding, bounties, etc. > > - Educational materials/articles about porting. > > - A list of identified problems with OS which are inhibiting > porting. > > - Porting challenges: In other words-- "December's challenge > to the group is to port Audacity"
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