X Consolidation

X Consolidation Gate Project

The purpose of this project is to host the X Consolidation gate on opensolaris.org hosting.

Like the ON gate migration, this was planned to happen in phases:

Phase 1:  [Completed Oct. 2009]

Publish a read-only external hg mirror of the internal TeamWare gate.

Phase 2:  [Completed Feb. 2010]

Migrate the internal TeamWare gate to an internal hg master gate. Publish a read-only external hg clone of the internal hg master gate.

Phase 3:  [Cancelled]

Migrate the hg master gate to opensolaris.org, once the Open Development Infrastructure project project has finished developing the infrastructure needed for this.

Currently the project has completed Phase 2.   

There are two external hg mirrors:

• xnv-clone - the Solaris “Nevada” development gate, used up until the final release as Solaris 11, now frozen.
• x-s11-update-clone - the development gate being used to develop Solaris 11 update releases now.   Changes seen in this tree are subject to change/reversion before the release, so no commitment to future deliveries should be inferred from its contents.

These options are available for the external hg mirrors:

• Browse/search source online via OpenGrok: xnv-clone  x-s11-update-clone
• Checkout code via mercurial by running: hg clone ssh://anon@hg.opensolaris.org/hg/x-cons/xnv-clone or hg clone ssh://anon@hg.opensolaris.org/hg/x-cons/x-s11-update-clone (Mercurial instructions)
• Sign up for notifications of commits or see archives of commit messages on x-cons-notify mailing list
• Build the sources following these instructions.

The Phase 1 external hg mirror of the TeamWare workspace used up through Nevada build 134 / OpenSolaris 2010.03 is also available:

• Browse/search source online via OpenGrok
• Checkout code via mercurial by running: hg clone ssh://anon@hg.opensolaris.org/hg/x-cons/XW_NV_tw-clone (Mercurial instructions)

This is a new project since the X community itself cannot host the gate, due to the limitations of the site infrastructure limiting source code repositories to Projects, not Community Groups.

The differences between this project and the existing Fully Open X (FOX) project include:

• This gate will adhere to standard OpenSolaris development practices, including requirements for each commit to have:
  • bug report filed in appropriate defect tracking system
  • code review, per current X gate policies
  • WebRTI approval
    Unfortunately, that means until the Open Development Infrastructure project has completed the infrastructure needed, that external commits will have to go through a Sun internal sponsor for integration.
• The FOX gates contain experimental changes and changes made for the other distros using those gates which have not been accepted for the main OpenSolaris gate.