From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [206.16.192.249] (helo=outbound1-ash-R.bigfish.com) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.61) (envelope-from ) id 1GNCep-00015E-2n for openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:06:51 +0200 Received: from outbound1-ash.bigfish.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by outbound1-ash-R.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD48D13BF0E4 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:03:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail43-ash-R.bigfish.com (unknown [172.18.2.3]) by outbound1-ash.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4B3813B3558 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:03:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail43-ash.bigfish.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail43-ash-R.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA382C0F997 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:03:13 +0000 (UTC) X-BigFish: V Received: by mail43-ash (MessageSwitch) id 1158084136649735_17921; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:02:16 +0000 (UCT) Received: from mail8.fw-sd.sony.com (mail8.fw-sd.sony.com [160.33.66.75]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail43-ash.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C7DC0FCE9 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:02:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail3.sjc.in.sel.sony.com (mail3.sjc.in.sel.sony.com [43.134.1.211]) by mail8.fw-sd.sony.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k8CI2F9T013915 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:02:15 GMT Received: from [43.134.85.135] ([43.134.85.135]) by mail3.sjc.in.sel.sony.com (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k8CI2F11028373 for ; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:02:15 GMT Message-ID: <4506F6A1.2030201@am.sony.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:04:17 -0700 From: Tim Bird User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060614) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Linux Distributions References: <200609121228.26077.openembedded@hrw.one.pl> In-Reply-To: <200609121228.26077.openembedded@hrw.one.pl> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Subject: Re: Paid support offer X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.8 Precedence: list Reply-To: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Linux Distributions List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Linux Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:06:51 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > I started own business. Main area will be OpenEmbedded consulting > as I'm one of core developers of this buildsystem. > > Things which I want to cover are: > > * device support > * bug fixing > * adding/altering packages > * maintenance of external branches > > Those kinds of things are nothing new to me - I maintain own branch > used to build OpenZaurus, added few hundreds of packages (and changed > countless of them). > > Currently I prefer remote work due to fact that I still have full time job. > Payments can be solved in two ways: > > - payment per needed hours (this can be hard to count because some of it > takes waiting for build) > - one price for whole work > > I can provide invoice. I am interested. The CE Linux Forum is using OE for our Test Lab, but we have some difficulties with it. Maybe you can help us solve some of these difficulties. Here are some specifics: * we wish to create our own distribution with fairly minimal footprint but including a number of test packages. Specifically, we have added an LTP package to our system, but have not (to my knowledge) pushed this upstream to OE. We would like assistance with adding, modifying and maintaining packages: * would like an X11-less python package - to support test scripts on target written in python (but where the target does not have any graphical support). * would like a drop-bear that supports root access with no password (There's a patch for this, but we have not integrated it into our system yet) * would like to add several test packages (here are some candidates, in no particular order): aiostress fio kernbench reaim sleeptest tbench bonnie fsx lmbench scrashme unixbench dbench interbench selftest stress * we would also like to set up and maintain a source snapshot mirror. I have a sources fetch running nightly now on a dedicated machine in our test lab (grabbing the sources for a 'bootstrap-image' distro. But I have not yet set up the rsync to move the snapshot files to a large server where I can publish them on the web. I don't think much remains to finish this effort, but I don't have time to do it myself. The problem we are trying to solve is that users of our test lab system may not have access outside their corporate firewall to anything but http. So they cannot use subversion, monotone, or other configuration management systems to retrieve sources. Bitbake just breaks if it ends up needing to use any of these CMSes directly. OE will only work for us if our users have a public repository of source that is accessible via only http. * an RPM package with minimal elements that can be used to begin working with our OE-based distribution. I have found that OE has a very large list of pre-requisites, and is very difficult to set up on my local machine. An installer program which resolves these difficulties would be very useful. Users of my testlab will download and build OE software on their local machines, and this needs to be turn-key if possible. * documentation for the above. Please let me know your interest level and a rough estimate (ballpark figure) of the amount of money each of the projects listed above would cost. (Or let me know your hourly rate and a rough estimate of the hours you think those would take. Please contact me if you have additional questions. Thanks and regards, -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Electronics =============================