[Info-vax] Open Source On OpenVMS Conference Call

[BillPedersen]

On Tuesday, October 29, 2013 1:49:15 PM UTC-4, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article <0dd5c228-3496-44da-b313-6ca37a22f3da at googlegroups.com>,
> 
> BillPedersen <pedersen at ccsscorp.com> writes: 
> 
> I have neither the time nor the (presumably) C programming skills 
> necessary, but it would be nice to have a more modern but not bloated 
> graphical web browser for VMS on Alpha.  Can I dream?

There has been some discussion during the conference calls as to porting a different browser to VMS.  No one has taken on that challenge.  If someone in the OpenVMS Community were to come forward to champion that process then it would move forward.  Chrome has been discussed in this context but as of yet there is no "sponsor" or "champion".

The current projects then to be either GNV infrastructure (bash, coreutils, sed, less, nscurses...) or other project related (the s3270 subset of x3270) or "need" related efforts (PostgreSQL).  And of course the on-going maintenance of packages (cURL, zlib, Perl, Python).

On the other hand we need help in sorts of activities. It is not "just porting".  There is ongoing documentation, testing, website development and maintenance, ticket tracking...  We are starting to look at creating a "build-farm" on the HP Open Source Cluster.  It would initially be for cURL but this needs to be done for any and all projects and packages that we get ported and want to work to keep current.

We look forward to any help and any involvement people bring to the table.

Thanks,

Bill.