Mike Kupfer wrote: > Sorry about the delayed response. Between a vacation day on Monday, a > miserable Tuesday where pretty much nothing worked right, and JavaOne > yesterday, I'm still catching up on email. > > >>>>>> "jek3" == Joseph Kowalski <jek3 at sun.com> writes: >>>>>> > > jek3> One concept discussed was to have a machine farm under OpenSolaris > jek3> auspicies. Probably not as simple as it sounds (to prevent > jek3> abuse), but certainly possible. > > Well, we need a build farm anyway, so that external committers can build > and test on both x86 and SPARC prior to putback. > > But my point (which admittedly wasn't made clearly) was that you seem to > be asking upstream maintainers to expand their test matrix and take on > additional administrative tasks. If they're willing to do it, that's > great for OpenSolaris. And the advantage to upstream is that it gives > their code wider reach. > > But it is still more work for them, and I expect that a very common > reaction will be "if you give us OpenSolaris packages, we'll post them; > if you give us Solaris-specific patches, we'll look at incorporating > them." > > I think a more successful strategy will be for OpenSolaris community > members to get involved with the upstream projects that they care > about. They can test development builds and produce packages. > > Which may have been what you had in mind in the first place, and I just > didn't understand what you meant by pushing things upstream. > > mike > I carefully didn't get into the "who" would do this development, only where I believe the locus of the development should be. I thought about both of these models, but chose not to express a bias for one over the other.
I think it would be better for the same humanoid to do the same OpenSolaris packaging and distribution work under "j-random-community.org" rather than opensolaris.org. I think most communities would welcome this, even if it only amounts to an additional, part-time, community member. I agree this is more likely to happen. The only concern I could see would be that the long-time community members might fear an "integrate and disappear" act. I don't think *this* community (OpenSolaris) would let that happen, but I could understand the concern. - jek3
