Irene Huang:
> Opensolaris is an open community, there's no policy that projects with
> similar functionality should not co-exist in the community.
>
> I am not familiar about the other device manager project. I was told
> that both the structure and the GUI are different. If this is the case
> I'd say that it won't hurt to have both these projects on opensolaris.
>
> For Hal Device Manager (the project in discussion which is composed of
> GNOME device manager and HAL support), I have to say that it is
> something that worth the effort.
> 1. The project is based on HAL, and HAL is now popular in the opensource
> world
> 2. quite a lot of projects on solaris depends on HAL, it is sensible to
> develop base on the existing architecture.
> 3. GNOME device manager is now in ubuntu core, which means its value has
> been recognized.
> 4. By utilizing the existing projects in the open source community, I
> would say it will benefit Solaris, since we can both make use of the
> contribution of the community as well as contributing our efforts back.
> This enhances the cooperation between openSolaris and the other
> opensource communities.
>
>
Good points, I think so. :-)
HAL is so popular that it is definitly worth the effort to have a
project for device management based on HAL.
Colin
