Hello everyone. As some of you have already noticed, we recently started a Fedora affiliated project called "Fedora Bootstrap" that had a short kick-off meeting on the last Devconf, which took place in February. Unfortunately this announcement gained a delay due to the Fedora trademark licensing we had to resolve with RH Legal prior making the project public and some of you were probably startled and wondering what this is all about. So, let me introduce the project a bit. The project is targeted mainly at our ability to build Fedora from scratch, so that an introduction of new architectures is easier and shorter. However, it has more goals than that. We'd like to see it to become a cure for all bootstrap related issues you can imagine. We base our work on a set of bootstrap scripts initially designed approximately 4-5 years ago by DJ Delorie and maintained by a group of people (DJ Delorie, Mark Salter, Al Stone, Jon Masters, Aldy Hernandez, ...) since that. The current effort is targeted at creation of a testsuite we'd like to wrap the bootstrap scripts with. That way the scripts can still work as a standalone bootstrap solution whenever we need them and the periodic testsuite execution should keep the solution up-to-date and ready for immediate use. Thanks to Micah Denn + folks from the Fedora design team and thanks to Stephen Wadeley from the Content services we already have a project homepage with sane content, available at http://fedora-bootstrap.osop.rhcloud.com I'm also happy to announce, that we already have a working testsuite covering the first stage of bootstrap. You can find the results and build logs at http://fedora-bootstrap.osop.rhcloud.com/results/stage1/ When we started, the whole table was red except two green fields. Now it's mostly green, thanks to everyone who offered help. I'd also like to say "thank you" to everyone, who helped us to commit bootstrap recipes for the first stage to the Fedora git. That allows us to engage all component maintainers in the bootstrap process and do more automation stuff in the future. We're currently enhancing the testsuite to support stage2 testing and to generate presentable results. And again, I'd like to ask everyone for support with troubleshooting and pushing the stage2 recipes to the Fedora git. It's gonna be a lot of work and we cannot succeed without your help. I'm looking forward for your cooperation and in case of any questions, I'm here for you. Best regards, Jaromir Capik. -- Red Hat Czech, s.r.o. Software Engineer / Secondary Arch Email: jcapik@xxxxxxxxxx Web: www.cz.redhat.com Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45, Brno, Czech Republic IC: 27690016 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
