2009/4/5 "C. Bergstr?m" <cbergstrom at netsyncro.com>: > 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 >
To elaborate: - > 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.. codestr0m is right. I was thinking of writing about how a lot of Belenix development happens. I think that response to Moinak's post with more details on the need for such a move would help more. >> >> ? 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 > > Some weeks ago, when I'd made time to get involved, codestr0m and I had some discussions over future directions. These were discussions over email. I'll summarize those and post them as a response to Moinak's post on this list. -- Sriram
