A Site of Sites
The opensolaris.org website is not just one place or one
application. It's actually a site of many applications providing a
variety of services to users and developers around the world. Bonnie recently updated the OpenSolaris Site Map to better
organize these services so it's easier to understand
what's out there and how people can use these tools to build
software and community. That last bit is important, too. The more tools
we can provide to enable people to get involved and contribute the more
we can grow as a community. What's cool is that the list is starting to
add up, the number of people maintaining these services is growing, and
more is planned:
- arc.opensolaris.org: Architecture Review Committee case data
- auth.opensolaris.org: Membership/account management application
- bugs.opensolaris.org: Bugs-by-mail submission to Sun's Bugster database
- cr.opensolaris.org: Code review tool
- defect.opensolaris.org: Open defect tracking
- hub.opensolaris.org: XWiki-based site for community editing
- jucr.opensolaris.org: Package/spec file submission
- mail.opensolaris.org: Mailing list management
- pkg.opensolaris.org: Open source package repositories
- pkgfactory.opensolaris.org: Automated collection/build/submission of FOSS to jucr
- poll.opensolaris.org: Community voting
- repo.opensolaris.org: Source code management console: Mercurial & Subversion
- rti.opensolaris.org: Open request-to-integrate tool under development
- src.opensolaris.org: Source browser
- test.opensolaris.org: Access to test farm
Since there are over a dozen
applications making up opensolaris.org, the look and feel varies a bit.
We'll need to solve that as part of the next phase of work in the website transition. We'll layer a more common
graphical feel across everything. After we move off the current portal application on
Monday, we will begin work on Phase 3. We
are planning that work now, and we'll update the infrastructure
roadmap
to reflect those changes over the next few weeks. I'm looking forward
to that
phase of the project because it will require working with new teams
across the community and all of the
owners of the services above. Once we finish Phase 3 we will have
transitioned the website off of the current infrastructure entirely. We
are doing this in stages, of course, while maintaining current
operations. First was Auth. Then XWiki. And next will be some of the
other key applications that are still currently tied to the old portal.
A note about the list of services above: one application not on the list is the Community Translation Interface.
It's not on opensolaris.org because it is a tool to facilitate
community translations across all of Sun's FOSS projects, not just
OpenSolaris. This application has enabled many contributions from the OpenSolaris community, so check it out along with the others.
