O.k. with me. JC
Alan Coopersmith wrote: > 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- > > 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 > This 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.) >
