Twice a year, OpenCSW maintainers and contributors get together to work on packages, share experiences and discuss the future direction of the project. In this year’s winter camp at the University of Zurich the following issues were addressed:
- Catalog cleanup
During the cleanup 441 packages were removed. This process will be repeated every six months.
- Introduce Buildbot for upstream projects
To give upstream better feedback on the Solaris compatibility for upstream projects we now provide continuous builds for interested projects. One of the first projects to benefit from it was PCRE which had issues on Solaris in version 8.34. The recently released packages for PCRE 8.35 were a result of giving upstream constant feedback on the development state.
- Presentation of new mirror infrastructure
In the future, people will be redirected to their closest mirror using only one URL. This will be based on MirrorBrain.
- Changes to the website
The Website has been updated to the latest WordPress release and the layout of announcements was adjusted. Additionally there were some thoughts about a new website.
The next camp will be in the summer/fall.
