> Okay - here's an updated version with the details > required by the OGB > project creation policy - if this is what we agree > to, I'll send in > to the OGB to create the project. (For a formal > vote we need votes > from a majority of the current Core Contributors - > since we have only > three, and I vote to approve, that leaves a vote from > either Jay or > Stuart being enough to get this started.) > > -alan-
'still alive. Msg. read, just now: Okay. Till later ... (post_ July9th "era", as soon as I got time again.) %martin% > The X Window System Community has agreed to sponsor a > new OpenSolaris > project, FOX: The Fully Open X Project. > > The Fully Open X Project (FOX) will create a public > Mercurial gate on > opensolaris.org containing a merge of these three > source bases: > - the current OpenSolaris X code drops published by > the Sun X team > - the Xorg SPARC driver sources created by Martin > Bochnig for Martux > - the full X11R7.2 source builds created by Moinak > Ghosh for Belenix > his will provide a common source base for distros to > build from, > a faster release path for Sun's changes than > releasing a snapshot > tarball every 1-2 months, and access to changes not > yet accepted > by Sun's process into Solaris Express. > > While the long term goal is Solaris API/ABI > compatibility, that won't > be achieved initially (since Sun is still working on > opening the > sources required for certain API's not yet in open > source releases). > This will not be the master gate for Solaris for a > while, but may > eventually be the master gate for the open portions > of the Solaris X > consolidation. > > While no other formal OpenSolaris Projects are > related to this work, > as noted above, this work ties together work being > done in the > Solaris Express, Martux and Belenix distros. > > The X Window System Community thus requests the > following from the > OGB/opensolaris.org team: > > - A project page on the opensolaris.org web site > short name: "FOX", long name "Fully Open X Project") > - A mercurial repository established under the > project name "fox" > with an associated fox-commits at opensolaris.org > mailing list > created for subscribing to commit notifications. > > The initial set of contributors/leaders for this > project will be: > Martin Bochnig (bochnig) > Alan Coopersmith (alanc) > Jay Cotton (jacotton) > Moinak Ghosh (moinakg) > > These 4 people should be given write access to the > project web page > and the Mercurial repository. Alan & Jay are > already Core Contributors > of the X Community - the Community at this time > grants Contributor status > to Martin & Moinak, with the intention to review for > Core Contributor > status once the project is underway. > > The project for now will use the X Community's > xwin-discuss mailing list. > (If traffic in the future becomes too great for that > list, a separate > mailing list can be easily requested at that time.) > - > -Alan Coopersmith- > - alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System > em Engineering > > _______________________________________________ > xwin-discuss mailing list > xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org > This message posted from opensolaris.org
