Hi, A few notes below.
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 15:09 -0400, Brian Gupta wrote: > 4) Merge SFW, CCD, and GNU communities/projects into a single one called SFW. > Merge leadership, mailing lists and members. This needs to be fast tracked > (Ian) I think you missed some of the biggest consolidations of open source sw in Solaris: JDS and X. JDS is a good example why I don't think it makes sense to merge everything together: we work on different schedules from SFW and others, JDS follows the GNOME community schedule. That said, there is no problem with keeping our sources/build recipes in the same location as other F/OSS communities. But JDS will need to be built and QA'd separately, so they should be somehow separated after all. Making the packages available from a central repository is an entirely different matter and it is a great goal. > 5) Start a project to define what is "core" Solaris, what isn't but Sun will > support and what will be community supported. (Brian and Sun appointee) What ships in Solaris is 100% up to Sun Microsystems, Inc. It will have to be built by Sun and supported by Sun for many years. I guess this is where you can see the difference between Solaris and OpenSolaris. Other opensolaris-based distributions may or may not be interested in this project and they may or may not even use the same package format as Solaris. What we could all share are build recipes (do I sound like a broken record?). The trouble is, all the forementioned consolidations (Blastwave incl.) use different build systems, build environments. Of course, they could be unified, but it would be a \Huge amount of work. Laca
