One other comment. Generally, a project proposal, would be posted to the interested communities for comment, before being submitted fait acompli to the OGB. (I have cc'ed in those communities that I think, at a minimum, should be included
brian On 5/31/07, Brian Gupta <brian.gupta at gmail.com> wrote: > I was in the process of writing my own proposal for a reference build > (I got sidetracked because of all the distracting Indiana discussion), > I am including my incomplete draft proposal for consideration and > comment: > > Proposal OpenSolaris Reference Distribution v0.1 > > 1. Introduction and motivation > > 1.1 Summary > > This project proposes to develop and release weekly distributions that > would be used by OpenSolaris as their reference platform to develop on. > > This is similar to the role Solaris Express Community Edition plays now, > But would be sustained and maintained by the OpenSolaris community, > rather than Sun. The problem with SXCS is that it is not OpenSolaris, > but rather a commercial operating system built by Sun. > > One of the serious issues with this approach, is that developing > OpenSolaris code on a Solaris distribution does not provide any > technical guarantees that the resulting code in unencumbered. > > The motivation behind this proposal is to change the development > environment as it exists today, to put all distributions on equal > footing. If the development platform is unencumbered there is a fair > amount of certainty that the resulting code will be as well. > > 1.2 History and context > > Until recently Solaris and OpenSolaris were controlled by the same > organization, Sun Microsystems. Recently OpenSolaris became an > independent organization, with it's own governing structures and > Constitution. > > After this independence OpenSolaris did not start producing their > own reference distribution, instead continuing to rely on Sun's > Solaris Express Community Edition weekly releases. > > 2. Discussion > > 2.1 Functionality > > There are certain certain bits in Solaris that have not been released > to the community. This new Reference Distribution would be built > without those components. Applicable suitable open source > replacements would be found. If there isn't a suitable replacement, > it would be incumbent upon the OpenSolaris community to develop > suitable replacements. > > 2.2 Components > > 2.3 Documentation > > 2.4 Future projects > > 3. Interfaces > > 3.1 Imported interfaces > > 3.2 Exported interfaces Bundled files > > 4. References > > In addition I have started a Wiki page where we can capture some of > the descions made by the project team. > http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php?title=OpenSolaris_Reference_Build > > cheers, > brian > > On 5/31/07, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote: > > Simon Phipps writes: > > > On May 31, 2007, at 13:36, James Carlson wrote: > > > > > > > I don't think anyone is saying that you can't create a distribution > > > > yourself without bothering with any project, community, or governing > > > > board. You can. Knock yourself out. > > > > > > But that's not what's happening. If a Sun-sponsored team went off > > > outside the scope of the community and created a distribution like > > > the one being proposed as "Indiana", all hell would break loose here. > > > > The part that you snipped away was where John Plocher was asserting > > that this case would somehow prevent future distributions (such as the > > ones we now have) from even starting. I don't believe that's the > > case. > > > > > We are now at the stage where (as John Plocher said) for some reason > > > some high-profile individuals are "throwing up logistical barriers to > > > this effort instead of facilitating them", something that has not > > > seemed to happen to a project proposal on OpenSolaris before. > > > > I just don't see it that way. Is having a community endorse this > > project a "barrier?" And one that necessarily causes undue hardship? > > > > If so, then perhaps it's time to amend the constitution we just > > ratified. Merely ignoring it doesn't seem like a reasonable option to > > me. > > > > > Thus, as a community member, I'd like to see a team form and get > > > started. I would really like to see the OGB we elected facilitate > > > rather than obstruct, please. > > > > So far, I haven't seen anyone trying to obstruct. > > > > -- > > James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> > > Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 > > MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 > > _______________________________________________ > > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > > opensolaris-discuss at opensolaris.org > > >
