[illumos-Discuss] Compiling rest New Sol / Tutoring for participation

[Garrett D'Amore]

The is a project already working on a full distro that is much like
OpenSolaris.  I would suggest you contact Alasdair Lumden for more
information.

	- Garrett

On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 17:18 +0200, Nikola M wrote:
> I understand that Illumos is for OS/Net and making available and testing
> the base part of Opensolaris bits and that there is for others to
> install and build other bits.
> There is nice wiki instructions to after snv_134 Opensolaris, upgrade to
> 145 illumos and to build newer ON/Net after that.
> 
> Now I am thinking, what could be done for the rest of it?
> I wasn't actually much aware of organized community teams with knowledge
> of building other consolidations (JDS etc..) and program porting.  (I
> guess before Opensolaris memo breakup, all that were doing people inside
> Orcl. and rest of people just expected binaries to appear in regular
> .iso's).
> Now it seems that we (the people, users) need to build all of that, and
> make binaries available to others to actually use them and take some
> testing and fixing in between.
> Ways how to distribute those updates could be various, of course, but
> let's assume that is IPS repo for community releases of consolidations
> (and program ports in same manner after that) so that Opensolaris users
> could easily update to it.
> 
> Myself at the moment considerably lacks of knowledge for consolidation
> building and IPS package making and making working IPS publisher for them.
> 
> But I am willing to learn and sort of do effort of doing things about that.
> I know that knowledge does not fall from trees but I also think that
> with some king of guidance ("read this, read that") i could be valuable
> apprentice and while catching up on the way, to be valuable part of
> Community, while actually doing some valuable tasks that could help
> others, while making something for myself at the same time.
> 
> Do you think that tutoring/apprentice model for widening "community of
> willing" could be a good move for Open Source Solaris and its
> distribution(s) and users?
> Like the starter list of knowledge needed for several distinctive ROLES
> within community with sort of "upgrade learning path" for community members.
> This seems like time when every man counts and might work out as strong
> cohesive way of widening and new participation.
> I am here and won't go. What do you think about it?
> 
> 
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