[oi-dev] OI 'hipster' reboot effort

[Andrzej Szeszo]

Hi All

Seeing that the project is slowing down a bit, I have decided that I
will try to help it get some momentum back.

Firstly, if you rely on stable OI releases, Jon Tibble will carry on
producing traditional releases and they will be made available in the
/dev repo and as installable ISO/USB images. OI 151a8 should be out
real soon now.

/dev releases follow traditional Sun/Oracle releng process, which is
very time consuming. Mainly for that reason it may take a very long
time before any build system update will be reflected in the package
repository.

OI 'hipster' is trying to change the process by switching to a rolling
release model.

There is single top-level build repo on Github:
https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland. If you want to change
something or add new packages - simply send a pull request.

Changes to the build repo are automatically picked up by Jenkins
instance, packages are built and then published to the
http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster repo. It is all set up and working
now.

http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster repo currently consists of /dev
contents + JT's /dev-test OI 151a8 bits + Milan Jurik's JDS work +
Jenkins built packages.

The plan is to improve what's out there incrementally. Eventually it
should be possible to build complete OS from the Github repo.

To use /hipster repo, install OI 151a7 and run (as root):

pkg set-publisher -O http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster openindiana.org
pkg update -v

Few people started submitting changes already. Thanks for that! If you
have something to be added or changed in the repo, simply send us pull
request.

Couple useful links:
Jenkins dashboard: http://hipster.openindiana.org:8080/
Component build logs: http://hipster.openindiana.org/i386/logs/

Andrzej