You are right and if you know from the mail thread on the project submission, it was also based on HAL. I am fine with two similar projects, but there should not be a duplication of efforts. I pointed out the concern, as initially the team was fine with my project request on Device Manager, but all of a sudden some new ideas of having similar efforts arose. My concerns are not to stop, but to make sure there should be a duplication of the same efforts.
Good luck. Vijay Colin Zou wrote: > 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
