Anyone following the "haiku-inc" ML will have noticed that I've been approved to spend 240 hours (around 6 weeks of full-time work) on Haiku's packaging infrastructure. This mostly means I'll be working on the package building system, which will manage the "HaikuPorts" package repository, ensuring it's up-to-date across architectures (and later, across both nightly & release builds).
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2015-06-01_beginning_packaging_infrastructure_contract/