zOpen

Project description

The z/OS Open Tools github organization serves as a collaborative github organization for z/OS UNIX developers, users, and organizations who contribute to and utilize open-source tools on z/OS.
z/OS Open Tools started in 2022 with a handful of projects and now currently hosts over 180+ projects, with the aim of providing the build recipes as well as the patches to enable popular open source packages to build and run on z/OS. z/OS Open Tools includes ports for popular open source projects like Git, Bash, Curl, CMake, Make, GPG, LLama.cpp, Vim, Nano and many more.
z/OS Open Tools also distributes binaries for each of the tools as Github releases. It also provides a z/OS UNIX package manager (zopen) that makes it easy to consume the 180+ tools directly on z/OS.

Statement on alignment with Open Mainframe Project Mission and Vision statements

• Promoting open-source development: Facilitating the creation, adoption, and collaboration on open-source z/OS tools.
• Modernizing the z/OS ecosystem: Encouraging the use of modern development practices and technologies within z/OS.
• Expanding accessibility and skills: Empowering developers with accessible open-source tools and fostering a skilled z/OS developer community.
• Facilitating collaboration: Creating a central platform for communication, knowledge sharing, and joint initiatives.

Are there similar/related projects out there?

z/OS Open Tools and Ambitus share some of same goals, however z/OS Open Tools is aimed at providing the build recipes and patches to enable the porting of open source tools to z/OS whereas Ambitus is aimed at providing a place to contribute new and old open source project. z/OS Open Tools also includes a package manager for consumption of its tools and a strong community.

Sponsor from TAC

Joe Bostian

Proposed Project Stage

Active

License and contribution guidelines

Contributing guidelines - https://github.com/ZOSOpenTools/meta/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
Apache 2.0 license

Current or desired source control repository

https://github.com/ZOSOpenTools

External dependencies (including licenses)

z/OS Open Tools is self-contained. All repos use the Apache 2.0 license. Licenses for patches fall under the original open source tool's license.

Initial committers

Igor Todorovski - https://github.com/IgorTodorovskiIBM
Mike Fulton - https://github.com/MikeFultonDev
Haritha D - https://github.com/HarithaIBM/meta

Infrastructure requests

None at this time. We currently provide our own CI/build infrastructure

Communication channels

Github discussions: https://github.com/orgs/ZOSOpenTools/discussions

Communication channels

General issues: https://github.com/ZOSOpenTools/meta/issues

Website

https://zosopentools.github.io/meta/

Release methodology and mechanics

All releases for tools are published as Github Releases.
A list of all available port release is available here: https://zosopentools.github.io/meta/#/Latest

Social media accounts

LinkedIn Group - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9588308/
System Z Enthusiasts discord channels - https://discord.gg/system-z-enthusiasts-880322471608344597

Community size and any existing sponsorship

210 members - LinkedIn Group - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9588308/
31 stars on our main meta repo: https://github.com/ZOSOpenTools/meta