After many weeks of preparation, platform.progeny.com is finally ready. Thanks to all the folks at Progeny that burned the midnight oil to get our work out there as soon as possible after an email I sent ended up on the front page of Slashdot. (Oops.)

Initially, we have five projects hosted at platform.progeny.com: a port of Anaconda to Debian; an APT testbed, primarily focused on the convergence of APT and the various APT-derived projects (APT-RPM, apt4rpm, etc.); the configlets interface to Debian’s debconf configuration framework (initially a part of Progeny Debian); the Discover hardware detection framework (also initially a part of Progeny Debian); and a current snapshot of our work to help Debian achieve LSB compliance and certification.

More projects are coming–it is an explicit goal of ours to bring down all the walls that have traditionally divided the Linux distributions into separate, incompatible camps, and these projects are just the initial steps toward that grand goal. Likely next steps include helping bridge the gap between the Debian and RPM package formats and helping create or further a distribution-neutral configuration framework. Stay tuned, and please contact me if you are interested in these issues and want to get involved.

As with all project sites, platform.progeny.com is a work-in-progress, and will always be a work-in-progress. The projects themselves will of course evolve over time, and we also hope the site will evolve over time as well. One experiment is the inclusion of platform weblogs, weblogs that will contain not only project news and announcements but ongoing commentary on happenings in the platform world and, eventually, information directly from the developers working on these projects, Progeny developers and external developers alike.

Enjoy.