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This wiki is the internal face of the LSB Project - what the team is working on. For more general information about the LSB project, see the LSB Home Page.

Most Recent Activities

LSB 4.0 Related:
- Beta process, release notes, test results & analysis, specification review notes, project plan, infrastructure, LibraryUplifts, in-development specs, ISV Requested Interfaces, glibc project, EmergingIssues
LSB 3.2 Related (3.2 is released!)
- Unofficial test results & analysis, Beta process, Release Notes, Project plan, Specification Review notes
Meeting notes: LSB F2F November 2007, 2008 LF Summit
FAQ on developing LSB apps
Application Checker Enhancements
PackageRepositories: Setting up package repos to make it easy for end users to install the test suites.

Contributors

SpecificationGroup: LSB written specification. Project also includes SpecDatabase
ToolsGroup: Build Tools, Sample Implementation, Application Battery
TestGroup: Core test, VSW4/XTS5, C++ test, Desktop tests, Printing test, Perl/Python tests, test harnesses
ReleaseChecklist: what needs to happen for an LSB release?
TodoList: rolling list of non-product tasks
NewbieGuide: getting started with contributing to the Specification
Bug Tracking:
AutomaticDailyBuilds: Daily Builds Information and Status. See also Tool status for more info from the daily builds.
Distribution Autotesting: How to test your distribution automatically against the LSB. See also the LSB DTK Manager Nightly Run HOWTO and the results page.
Development specs, built fairly often.
Source code management
- Version Control: Information about the LSB's version control repositories
- LSB BZR: instructions | browse
- Note: cvs access is off
WrittenSpecificationHowTo: learn how to add your library to the written specification
libtodb2: a new set of tools automating import of new libraries into the LSB database
LibtoDB: library importer (obsolete)
LibToLSB: example of adding a library using old libtodb
UsingIRC:
WikiGuidelines:
LsbArch: autobuild/autotest hdw / VM details

Certification Candidates

Unofficial testing results and analysis: start here if you're having trouble understanding some test results:
- LSB 4.0, LSB 3.2, LSB 3.1.1, LSB 3.1, LSB 3.0
Distribution Testing: Blog by Jeff Licquia - good distribution testing overview.
DTK Manager Getting Started: How to install and run LSB 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 distribution tests with the help of DTK Manager
Platform_Tests: How to install and run the LSB 3.1 tests manually
See TestGroup for instructions and other notes on running the platform tests
The Application Battery
LSB Runtime Test FAQ

Application Developers

Browse the LSB database, and see some statistics from the LSB database
RpmExamples: learn how to build a conforming package using rpmbuild
LSB:devel_FAQ: FAQ on building LSB apps
ATK Manager Getting Started: How to check an application for LSB 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2 compliance with the help of ATK Manager
Using the Application Test Kit

Proposals

HeaderCheck: Proposal for a new runtime test tool to extend lsblibchk test coverage
MultiVersion: how implementations support multiple versions
MultiArch: how implementations support multiple architectures
LsbInstall, LsbinstallProblems: discussion on the proposed `lsbinstall` command (inactive)
appchk-glue: Proposal for inclusion/integration of tool to analyse entire built applicaitons
Exploratory: LsbJava, LsbPython, LsbPerl, EmbeddedModule: what should these look like?
LsbInterpretedLanguage: Tracking Perl, Python, etc.
WheresMyLibrary: various libraries and what the status is
RoadMap: evolving list of things to think about for future releases
NewGlibc: information on differences between LSB 3 and glibc 2.4
GnomePlan3: Plan for adding Gtk+ libraries to the LSB (phase 1 done in 3.1)
TestSuiteExpansion: possibilities for increasing LSB 3 and later runtime test coverage
Slides from IBM on ChipHopper.
AtSpi LSB: Plan for adding AtSpi client libraries to the LSB.