[lsb-discuss] Getting started with the LSB

[R P Herrold]

was discussed in the call today, and not completed, so we 
will revisit the topic again:

A quick answer is:
 	- join the mailing list (free)
 		http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lsb-discuss/
 	- join and lurk in the IRC channel (free)
 		see any minutes:
 		http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lsb-discuss/2012-April/007203.html
 	- dial into the weekly call (free)
 		see any minutes
 	- edit weekly minutes as part of the process at the
 		gobby (free)
 		see any minutes
 	- register for a bugzilla account (free)
 		https://lsbbugs.linuxfoundation.org/
 	- CO the VCS so one can test patches (free)
 		user specific
 		URL to CO instruction needed
 	- set up a test instance to run a nightly CO, and test
 		it against $favorite_distro (free)
 		user specific
 	- upstream bugs at $favorite_distro when issues are
 		found (free)
 		user and distro specific
 	- write about it (free)
 		https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/LSB
 		- and personal blogs, etc

and so improve the breed (free)

We are not communicating well, it seems, because cost is not 
an issue.  that list was oriented to participants (end user or 
ISV); participants gateway into co-developers, of course


I set to collating resources with a couple of web searches, 
and find the following as an aide to memory -- some questions 
raised, inter alia:

https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/LSB_Application_Testkit_Getting_Started
https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/Certification

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/docs/lsbbook/lsb-book.html
Getting started with the Linux Standard Base
-- dead link ... later: seemingly at:
https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/Book


http://ispras.linuxbase.org/index.php/LSB_DTK_Manager_Nightly_Run_HOWTO
http://ispras.linuxbase.org/index.php/LSB_Eclipse_Plugin_Getting_Started
http://ispras.linuxbase.org/index.php/LSB_SI_Tools_Getting_Started
http://ispras.linuxbase.org/index.php/Linux_App_Checker_Getting_Started

http://linuxtesting.org/lsb_si_tools


Licquia et al. LF post at Linux Journal:
we had a html version somewhere in LF space ... URL?
(LJ copy is now some flash thing)

T'so evangalism interview w O'RA:
http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2008/09/theodore-tso-how-the-lsb-helps.html


external:

Debian howto:
http://wiki.debian.org/LSBInitScripts

Novell article:
http://www.novell.com/developer/lu4d/lu4d_lskd_lsb.html
(seeming flash'ified -- can we get a flat text variant?)

HP migration article:
PDF -- can we get rights?
http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/StaticDownload?attachment_ciid=c42964c3c39f111064c3c39f1110275d6e10RCRD&ei=4O6OT--LFIai8QTU9Y2QDg&usg=AFQjCNFKcxOTas7Vdt9O5WhqHnUQeffY4w

third party (project-builder):
http://trac.project-builder.org/wiki/LSB

How have we responded to:
http://udrepper.livejournal.com/8511.html
http://www.licquia.org/archives/2005/09/27/yes-the-lsb-has-value/

-- Russ herrold