[csw-maintainers] Topics for IRL

[Gary Law]

2008/10/31 Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org>

>
> > * **Source**.
>

(*) The project should formally adopt GAR for Sol 9 and 10 builds and make
use of GAR mandatory for all packages. Future Solaris packaging standards
might mean a switch to pkgbuild or something else entirely. Incidentally,
not all my packages are in GAR and I don't like it as a tool, however,
maintainers having private scripts to build stuff is untransparent and makes
taking on the maintenance of an existing package very difficult in some
cases.

> * **Key**.
>

(*) The Key should be owned by all of and only the board members.


> > * **Board**.
> For me this is the most important point. The
> nomination/election is one of the keys on the meeting.


(*) Can maintainers who don't attend vote?


> > * **Release Process**.
>

You might want to take a look at Hudson, which is a nice Continuous
Integration server that I've used for automated builds in the past.


> > * **Distributed**.
>
> I don't know if distribution is really that good


+1


> . ... It may be sufficient to replicate the server
> backups to different people so the infrastructure can be
> rebuild quickly if anything happens.


 (*) The board members should maintain the infrastructure (delegating to
corporations or people as they see fit). Everything should be replicated in
two places, ideally I guess one in Europe and one in North America. LDAP,
SVN, DNS, web servers, wiki servers... all of these things can be made to
work in a fully redundant fashion across a WAN. NFS might be a struggle
though.

(*) I've got one more, and this is probably going to be a little
controversial... we should move out of /opt/csw and into /opt/opencsw.
Blastwave Inc is still distributing into /opt/csw and the scope for end user
confusion and incompatible software releases is huge. Although this sounds
like a lot of work, if everything is in GAR, and everything needs to be
rebuilt for Sol 9 in the next six months, it's really not a lot of extra
work. I've got big reservations about maintaining stuff through opencsw that
installs into /opt/csw.

-- 
Gary Law
glaw at opencsw.org
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