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

[George Rosamond]

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_**>
>>>>> products_based_on_FreeBSD<http**s://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.

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

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

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