As most of you know, for months I have been mentioning the need for a package repository for "experimental" (in-development, early-access, prototypes, etc) packages so we can do some real-world testing of the component *before* having to close on the ARC case and doing the final, formal, integration.
I'm happy to announce that now we have an IPS repository available for such experimental Web Stack content. For those of you not following my blog, the info is here: http://blogs.sun.com/jyrivirkki/entry/experimental_web_stack_repository Tonight it only contains an early prototype of the phpMyAdmin package, but I expect additional experimental content to follow in the near future. For upcoming components (possibilities recently mentioned here include phpPgAdmin, Drupal, Hudson and many others) I expect we'll have installable packages available early in the design cycle so we can all actually try them out well before the design is frozen.. -- Jyri J. Virkki - jyri.virkki at sun.com - Sun Microsystems
