On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, S h i v wrote: > On 8/8/07, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> To my way of thinking, Indiana (the new OpenSolaris binary distro, or >> whatever it ends up being called) introduces new product management >> cycles on Nevada (what Marc, Ian, and Glynn are hugely engaged in doing >> here); it introduces a different release cycle program; it plans to use >> open decision-making; and plans to accelerate the fixing of all non >> open-source bits. Finally, it was the catalyst for the idea of "project >> gates" vis-a-vis preview releases. See: >> > > If SXDE were to be opened up further its release program would attain > exactly these characteritics. > The characteristics you are talking about is limited to the > development aspect of the product management. > > What about identifying the user segments? What about product feature > definition suitable for that user segment? > Is it is the same *user segment* that Solaris has been attending to > all these years? :-( > > So many people are asking for feature rich user space on this very forum... >
Yes I totally agree. And fortunately (as I said elsewhere here today) the OpenSolaris GNU project opened the door for GNU userland to go into /usr/bin, bigtime. In fact, for the last six months (since the project passed ARC) there's nothing except the need for volunteers preventing GNU userland from flooding into /usr/bin. Eric _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
