[oi-dev] OI project reboot required

[Andrzej Szeszo]

Hi All

Apologies for a delay. Some things are set up now.

New IPS repository is up: http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/. It is a
clone of the /dev repo + oi_151a8 bits from Jon Tibble and JDS bits from
Milan Jurik merged in. Run commands below to update your system. You can
ask Jon Tibble where the name of the repo came from :)

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

Latest Oracle userland hg repo was converted to git and uploaded to
https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/. Most of the components were
masked and don't build by default. I have only unmasked few meta packages
to test if things build/publish correctly.

Quick Jenkins instance that automatically builds packages and publishes
them directly to http://pkg.openindiana.org/hipster/.

To start hacking, fork a repo on github, make your changes (unmask
packages, add new ones) and submit pull request. If you are an existing
contributor, give me a shout and I will give you direct access to the repo.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Let's see if the process works out.

Kind regards,

Andrzej



On 11 May 2013 18:28, Andrzej Szeszo <aszeszo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Alasdair
>
> I would like to try setting up a repo on github, give trusted people
> direct access and support pull requests from independent developers. And
> then have jenkins publish packages incrementally to publicly accessible
> repository. In theory, it should only take few minutes from a push to a
> published package in a repo.
>
> It is a variation on the process which was tried earlier. I think it might
> work this time.
>
> I did some prep work last night. Will try to have something usable by
> others later tonight.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andrzej
>
>
>
>
> On 10 May 2013 14:04, Alasdair Lumsden <alasdairrr at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Andrzej,
>>
>> Your vision is pretty much the same one I had. The challenge is this:
>>
>> "Existing releng process and contribution process prevent anything from
>> happening though. I would like to help to change that."
>>
>> How?
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2013-05-10 02:19, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is little "commercial future" in the desktop for Linux
>>>>> distributions as well yet almost all of them have a graphical desktop.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I would be entirely *unsurprised* if distro vendors like RedHat and
>>>> Oracle simply *ditched* their desktop support at some point in the future
>>>> -- its clear to me at least that folks aren't running those distros on the
>>>> desktop.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Well, Oracle does provide and promote SunRays, and while admittedly most
>>> of their market targeting is about VDI and access to virtual
>>> Windows desktops, there are many requests on the SRSS mailing list
>>> about adding support for server-side Ubuntu as the SRSS terminal
>>> server, because certain apps only exist for Linux and tunneling
>>> of connections makes their graphics lag, and RHEL/OEL/Solaris
>>> desktops are argued to be not so user-friendly (I have no opinion
>>> on this, to me X11 is a means to display more characters on screen
>>> than possible in a text mode).
>>>
>>> Not that Oracle seems to care to address that demand, at least
>>> publicly - just recently they began supporting versions 6 of RHEL
>>> and OEL as server-side Linuxes. But there is certain demand for
>>> non-MS/Apple desktops, and one linked to commercial interest as
>>> well. I am not sure if OI/illumos can ride that tide, though.
>>> Maybe with some other terminal client technologies (ThinLinc,
>>> Wyse, etc)?..
>>>
>>> //Jim
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> --
>> Alasdair Lumsden
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