[nycbug-talk] Meeting Feeler: Non-BSD projects Using BSD software

[Matthew Story]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:22 AM, George Rosamond <
george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:

> On 03/13/12 11:19, Matthew Story wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:16 AM, George Rosamond<
>> george at ceetonetechnology.com>  wrote:
>>
>>  On 03/13/12 11:14, Matthew Story wrote:
>>>
>>>  On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:49 PM, George Rosamond<
>>>> george at ceetonetechnology.com>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  On 03/12/12 18:57, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>  On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Matthew Story<
>>>>> matthewstory at gmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Wanted to put out a feeler about doing some meetings on the benefits
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> pitfalls of porting *BSD software to non-BSD systems.  And the
>>>>>>> various
>>>>>>> reasons why projects choose to do this, or to support alternate
>>>>>>> distributions of their software that provide optional *BSD software.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Perhaps this list could be updated too?:
>>>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/******index.php?title=List_of_**<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/****index.php?title=List_of_**>
>>>>>> <ht**tps://en.wikipedia.org/w/****index.php?title=List_of_**<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/**index.php?title=List_of_**>
>>>>>> >
>>>>>> products_based_on_FreeBSD<**http**s://en.wikipedia.org/w/**index.**<http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.**>
>>>>>> php?title=List_of_products_****based_on_FreeBSD<https://en.**
>>>>>> wikipedia.org/w/index.php?**title=List_of_products_based_**on_FreeBSD<https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_products_based_on_FreeBSD>
>>>>>> >
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>  Well, if we hosted it as a project, we would do all the BSDs, and
>>>>>>
>>>>> include
>>>>> products with relevant libraries (android), OpenSSH, etc., I would
>>>>> think.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe a few fields:
>>>>>
>>>>> product/manufacturer/software/******role/submitter/**verification
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> <okan sharpening knife as I dream up new online apps. . .>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You're suggesting a NYC*BUG curated list of projects that make use of
>>>> BSD
>>>> software from any of the projects on www.?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Yes.  A central repository for anyone to upload.  The problem is
>>> verification, IMHO.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Could kill 2 birds with one stone on the verification, ask posters to
>> provide a list of components, and the location of those components in the
>> project ... that way we could solve the wikipedia problem of ... "where
>> does android use extensive freebsd software" (my guess on that is that
>> sandbox makes extensive use of jail(8) ... but haven't actually gone
>> diving
>> into the source).
>>
>
> See above in field listing.
>

gotcha, sorry I missed that the first time around.


>
> The question is how to implement what is essentially an organizational
> solution for technical verification.
>

As long as we collected some contact information (as suggested by the
submitter field above) so that we could reach out for clarification, it
seems like this could be solved by verification volunteers.  I'd be happy
to volunteer for verification work.


> I assume we'd have a staging/upload area, then have others verify based on
> submitted fields.


 Makes sense to me.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.nycbug.org:8443/pipermail/talk/attachments/20120313/fb6eb3f4/attachment.htm>