On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 23:46 -0800, 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.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] with integrated Trac. > - Create a master "wish list" of open source apps we'd like to port: > - What the app is, what it does [EMAIL PROTECTED] Also, HackZone, HackZoneTeams. > - What needs porting (is it fine tuning? major functionality? > clean integration with SMF?... what's the issue?) www.gnusolaris.org's Wiki and Bugs pages > - Possible funding, bounties, etc. www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki/Bugs integrated with https://launchpad.net/distros/nexenta Launchapd is distribution independent issue tracker. supports bounties and many other features. well founded. > - Educational materials/articles about porting. www.gnusolaris.org's Wiki > - A list of identified problems with OS which are inhibiting > porting. Again /Bugs or /Wiki > - Porting challenges: In other words-- "December's challenge > to the group is to port Audacity" > > Further thoughts? > > -dp My thoughts are: lets re-use what we have and make it better instead of reinventing the wheel again. All porting problems are generic and once porting is done, what do you do next with the package? Right... future upstream sync-ups and security bug fixes. This is where community interoperability is highly required. PS: Initial idea with www.gnusolaris.org was: Web portal for centralized porting efforts and *not* Nexenta specific. It integrates Wiki, Blogs, Forums, mailing lists, Subversion and Trac+Launchpad in single place sutable for Solaris developers. Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
