[thinning lists again, it's the day for it here - I think this is a trademark-policy-dev topic]
On Nov 3, 2007, at 12:36, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > At the higher levels I'd want to see a goal of: > > "every piece of your distribution built from opensolaris sources > should > be independently reproduceable from source, and changes between the > base > opensolaris sources and the sources used in the build must be clearly > identified". > > If the source changes can be identified, then an expert user can > make an > independant judgement about whether the changes are sufficiently > compatible for their purposes. I've read a few messages about "compatibility" now that say things that imply compatibility is a flag for the expert developer. While that may be valuable, and we will want that as an element of the "built with OpenSolaris" brand usage (actual name TBD), I think a key goal has to be an indication used by the distro itself that a non- expert can expect to be able to point this distro at a well-known public repository (again, TBD) and run everything they find on it without an issue. That should be the gating factor for the higher, "$DISTRO OpenSolaris" brand (again, TBD). I realise this raises issues for the existing distros but as far as the OS-using masses are concerned I think it is essential. We may need a middle-level brand usage for distros designed to use only non- GUI packages from repositories, but we have to stay focussed on the user and their deployer-developers rather than on us in the co- developer circle[1]. S. [1] terms defined in http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/community_roles _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
