[OpenIndiana-discuss] HEADS UP: fuse, libfuse and ntfs-3g available in hipster

[Nikola M]

On 04/28/16 01:36 AM, Adam Števko wrote:
> Hello,
>
> few minutes ago I merged ntfs-3g into oi-userland hipster repository. Once, the package is built it will be available in the IPS repository. Tha package can be installed via
>
> pkg install system/file-system/ntfsprogs
>
> I would like people to give it a wider testing and report any bugs. I tried it out and it worked so far.
>
> I would like to thank Jean Pierre for supporting ntfs-3g on OpenIndiana!

It is true that widest testing (and bug reporting) is done by all people 
who have hipster installed, but it is not a testing phase before 
releasing per se, but more as wide audience call for use and report 
bugs, once testing is done.

I suggest to announce testing requests on 'oi-dev' mailing list as it is 
done thus far, and for per-package testing, to state the exact full 
version number in testing request (not just it's name in IPS publisher) ,
It is procedure used so far to test exact versions of important 
packages, applied to current state of hipster.
There is an Wiki page available, that explains how to test by using 
per-package mirror,
(having clone of your existing Boot Environment before testing)
http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Testing+packages+by+using+local+per-package+mirror
but it is usable only if having separate IPS publisher where package 
needeing testing resides before inclusion.

Testing is usually done before merge in hipster, by at least someone 
beside one.
So one wanting testing, have to put it's packages somewhere in he's own 
trusted public IPS publisher, accessible from outside world, so people 
could actually test before inclusion in hipster.
In the future those public IPS testing packages publishers, could be 
hosted on OI's infrastructure and also built on OI's servers to be sure 
building of binaries is transparent and positively doesn't include 
unknown unknowns in binaries.

Note for new contributors:
Anyone interested in Hipster's build process progress and including 
itself in it, by  adding more packages and maintenance can go to:
http://hipster.openindiana.org:8080/ , 
https://github.com/OpenIndiana/oi-userland/
Building your own software inside the build zone: 
http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Building+in+zones
Mailing lists: http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo
Wiki: http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/OpenIndiana+Wiki+Home