Overall I think the community generally agrees that we need a balance of new and innovative features that are unique to Solaris and features that are comfortable and common to many Linux users to reduce barrier to entry. That's the easy part, as we know.
So if many people here are looking at how well Ubuntu has done to become a popular free desktop as the current trend, we don't have to copy their features but instead emulate their approach. Does anyone have an idea as to what the innovation/common-features-from-other-distros ratio is that Ubuntu ended up having feature-wise in earlier releases (namely 2005 and 2006) that led to their rise? Perhaps that can help create a high level guideline for the OpenSolaris community to keep in mind as we discuss what particular features we ought to implement to achieve the balance statement above, e.g. sudo vs. RBAC, etc. And if a ratio can't be found in Ubuntu's case, then maybe we should make one of our own (again as only a guideline, not a rule). Each feature that falls into the "innovative" or "exists-in-other-distros" categories will have a certain weight that the ownership team can gauge on feel or ask the community. Those weights will then add up to help achieve the target ratio by looking at the two lists relative to each other side by side for any given future OpenSolaris distro. That ratio can also be used in the decision-making process along the way to again help achieve balance. We can set a first value target arbitrarily: say 50/50? Thanks for reading, Rene -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
