[OpenIndiana-discuss] Package lists

[Alasdair Lumsden]

On 23 Oct 2010, at 18:22, taemun wrote:

> Tenzer and I spent a few minutes harvesting distrowatch, and now we have a
> shiny:
> https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?key=tpU3GvToyo7F_zrxYIIla9Q&authkey=CLyhzsQD&hl=en&authkey=CLyhzsQD#gid=2
> 
> <https://spreadsheets0.google.com/ccc?key=tpU3GvToyo7F_zrxYIIla9Q&authkey=CLyhzsQD&hl=en&authkey=CLyhzsQD#gid=2>(Select
> the DistroWatch sheet, if you don't go there automagically).
> 
> We've also updated as much of the OI_147 column as we can.
> 
> If anyone has any additions to that, can you please update it. I'll email
> distrowatch in a few days and have then update their page (it is missing
> many packages that we have).

This is absolutely fantastic work - thanks to everyone who has contributed to it :)

This is going to be very very helpful in guiding the future direction of OI from a packaging/software standpoint.

The next step is to split packages into:

1. Packages we have but that should be updated to a newer version
2. Packages we are missing, but want to add within 3 months
3. Packages we are missing, but want to add within 6-12 months

Then the rest can be considered packages that are nice to have, or not wanted/needed.

This will then allow us to focus on getting those packages added, and serve as a method of distributing the work. Guido (gber) is doing some great work with regards to an extras consolidation for this software to live in:

http://wiki.openindiana.org/display/~guido/OI+Extra+Consolidation

If anyone is interested in helping him with this please get in touch.

We can also provide zones on fast boxes for building if anyone wants to assist.

Cheers,

Alasdair