On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 5:58 AM, kunal ghosh <kunal.t2 at gmail.com> wrote: > > >> So options are either build a community or join one. Building an OS >> community around a distro is easier said than done and none of us has >> the time or wherewithal to do this from scratch. Joining a growing >> developer > > This may be a promising move to collaborate(not merge)? with a project with > a growing > developer base. would give a boost to both the projects.
Well yes we of course begin off with collaboration. > >> >> and user community is the most easier option esp. when that community >> also looks at things in ways similar to our approach and also brings >> interesting new ideas to the table. So we have been considering working >> closely with the OSUNIX community (http://www.osunix.org/index.jspa) > > > but that is a very young community and is in a phase of charting out its own > plans as > to how their implementation of OpenSolaris would be and may have some design > issues which are > different from Belenix's this may lead to some problems later. > So, IMHO we should also consider, Putting up a Starter (Not always a newbie) > friendly website. > Young but promising and have achieved some big things in a short time like a pure 64Bit modular build of the OpenSolaris base. Starter website yes ... so hopefully we will improve both the BeleniX and OSUNIX websites. > Here are some points which we might implement for the above: > 1.Update the Project Ideas(or restructure "Features Requests") page more > often , updating it with all the ideas > ?? that we(users) come up with, during our everyday use of belenix, and > breakup the ideas into steps to do, with the difficulty levels,(this?? being > most important) > IMO this would be faster implemented by having a submission form, the data > from which goes into a moderation queue before being updated onto the > website.(I could start implenting this immediately if it sounds promising). > 2.Have belenix dev-zones set up (like OSUNIX has done) and provide small > spaced (may be 100MB work areas) for Starters to get a feel of it and when > they start contributing more. Increase the alloted space for the work area. > Exactly, and all these need people :) So working with a developer community is needed. The BeleniX Sourceforge page already has an RFE submission mechanism: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=1036406&group_id=216118&func=browse However if you have a better idea they you are more than welcome to implement it. >> >> to pool together our efforts and get innovations and new developments >> moving faster. That community is doing a lot of cool stuff and growing >> in developers. So we are looking at working together and BeleniX being >> a primary delivery vehicle for the results of that combined work. This >> consideration has been floating for some time and frankly now we > > > ?"We"? means , is it a unanimous decision by the belenix core dev team ? > Yes we have been discussing this amongst ourselves for a while. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://www.belenix.org/ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/
