Moinak Ghosh wrote: > 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. > On my side merging means a couple things to start
1) patches are more or less compatible. This is most important and even if there is two distinct communities it means we avoid duplicate work and just freely share 2) Community merge.. A lot of Belenix discussions I think happen locally or outside of irc/mailing lists. Sometimes possibly moving this onto a mailing list could give people a bigger picture of what's going on and opportunity to help.. > >>> 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. > I've plans to make the website *very* easy to use. Right now I agree we're still needing to document many things for beginners and advanced users. However, in defense we have two support channels on irc that combined have around 40 people. When I'm online and working I try to answer any question I can. Once we start to grow more... We can add a branch under the training community which helps get people started in the right direction. With this we can guide people in the right direction from the start. (I hope this answers the concern?) Suggestions welcome ./C --- Community driven OpenSolaris Technology - http://www.osunix.org blog: http://www.codestrom.com
