The Momonga Project is the project that produces the Momonga Linux
distribution. It comprises of members from a variety of
different fields of expertise.
The Momonga Project invites you to participate!
We are always looking for motivated people interested in
working with us. If you would like to participate in the
development activities of the Momonga Project, please apply
for an account after reading the instructions below.
Our work divides roughly into the following areas. Each item
below also notes the general requirements of pariticpating
in that area. These requirements should give you a vague
idea of what you need (or what you need to learn) to be
effective in each area.
- Package Maintenance
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Importing new packages and maintaining existing packages.
Packages are divided into groups and maintainers are
loosely assigned to each group. Required: RPM, general
Linux software package construction.
- Development of Custom Tools
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Development of Momonga Linux specific tools, such as the installer and package
management utilities. Required: Familiarity with system
software development. Ability to read/write in the Ruby
scripting language is strongly appreciated.
- Development of Project Management Systems
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Development and maintenance of project management systems,
such as the errata reporting system and the bug tracking
facilities. Required: Familiarity of system software
development, as well as system configuration and
maintenance.
- Document Writing
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Authoring and updating of manuals and WWW documents.
Required: Basic knowledge of XML and HTML.
- Translation
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Translation of the manuals and the www documents,
authoring of original documents in English or other
languages. Required: Language ability (of
course). Preferably comprehension of English or Japanese
in combination with writing ability in another language.
- Miscellaneous
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Server maintenance, administration of FTP sites, and public
relations. Requred: n/a.
The following tools are being developed as a part of the
Momonga Project.
- momonga
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The installer for Momonga Linux. Flexible configuration will
allow for selection of a large number of file systems and
installation of the newest packages.
We also plan to incorporate automatic (scripted) deployment
and configuration of Momonga Linux.
- Package Update Tool
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An RPM package management system.
Users will be able to update packages with minimal commands.
- OmoiKondara
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A development tool to simplify package building. This system is capable of
automatically obtaining needed source files and also automatically building
dependency packages.
- Ruby⁄RPM
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A wrapper library to use RPM from Ruby.
This is used in OmoiKondara, momonga, and other software.
- Errata Announcer
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Errata announcement system using PHP and PostgreSQL.
Announces package updates to the users.
- MHCL
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Hardware compatibility database. This is being planned to
be built with PHP and PostgreSQL.
- e18n
- An internationalization tool for the Enlightenment window manager.
- font-utils
- Several Ruby scripts that make installing True Type fonts quick and easy.
- go-ripper
- A simple cd ripper and ogg vorbis encoder written in ruby.
If you would like to participate in the Momonga Project,
please send an email to [email protected], containing a completed
version of the "Account Application Form " below. Please
also prepare an SSH2 RSA public key, as it will be required for
accessing the project's facilities (mainly the CVS tree).
After your application is received, current project members will
discuss whether we can issue an account. For ftp account for mirroring purposes,
please refer to the FTP servers page instead.
Account Application Form
- Your real name
- Your e-mail address
- Please specify a reliable e-mail address.
- Preferred user ID
- Please also specify your second preference.
- You objectives, as a member of the Momonga Project
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- Package maintenance
- Please specify the packages you want to import or
maintain.
- Authoring or translation of documents
- Please specify what kind of documents you want to write
or translate, and also the languages you are capable of authoring in.
- Development of an original tools
- Please specify which tools you want to develop.
- Project management system development
- Please specify in detail, the kinds of systems you
wish to build.
- Others
- Please also send us any links to information that will enable us to get to know you better.
(Such as a link to your personal website) Please also specify if any special accomidations are needed
for you to do your intended work (in terms of software/server configuration, account access, etc.).
Notices
Most all work in the Momonga Project is done using CVS over SSH.
Therefore a basic knowledge of CVS is required. Inter-member communication
is facilitated by an IRC server, as well as a variety of targeted mailing lists.
If you are maintaing a package, it is quite common for another project
member to make modifications to your package. Package-Maintainer relationships
are not carved in stone at the Momonga Project. Please inquire through IRC or
the mailing lists if you need more information on any of changes made by other members.
If your account appears to be inactive for a long period of time, there
is a possibility that we may cancel your account after sending an email notice.
Also, if your account is cancelled, please notice that we may decide to orphaned packages
for which no new maintainers are found.
Lastly, if you partake in an action that the majority of the
project members can not tolerate, your account may be canceled
after notice by e-mail.
