Moinak Ghosh wrote: > Hi Folks, > > <snip /> > and various other things. > > Now for the most interesting development. BeleniX as a distro is > growing in complexity and size and any large project to continue > successfully and meet user needs has to grow in number of developers. > Currently the size of the BeleniX team is really small with myself putting > most of my free time working on it. This state cannot continue indefinitely. > 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 > 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) > 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 are > quite excited by this prospect. > Hi all,
For the past 8+ months I can only extend the biggest gratitude to Moinak. I personally faced a lot of the technical challenges that he patiently helped me with. During those months I wasn't directly working on problems for the Belenix team, but a much larger focus. Unifying our paths is really more to get a lot of the work Moinak helped me with back into Belenix. At the same time some of you may know I'm very dedicated to bringing more of the open source community developers together. Moinak will still lead the Belenix direction and at the same time because we are sharing patches there's less duplicate work and we can all focus on greater technical achievements. Belenix isn't alone in this decision though. Many of the open source community leaders see the direction we're going and have talked with me about coming together. Anyway, before I ramble too much.. I look forward to working with you guys and helping in any way possible. If there are questions feel free to email me or ping me on irc. Kindly, ./Christopher --- Community driven OpenSolaris Technology - http://www.osunix.org blog: http://www.codestrom.com
