On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 05:32:29PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > A potential pitfall of picking such a new name is that others will > likely confuse it with the problem of porting software _onto_ Solaris > (a la /usr/ports on BSD) instead of the problem of porting Solaris > itself. So, the name needs to be clear. Some possible ideas: > > Architecture Porting > Architecture Bring-up > Porting OpenSolaris > > In addition to this, I suggested (and Dennis agreed) that the PPC > project should solicit more sponsors, such as Appliances, so that the > necessary communication occurs. > > Assuming we can rally the rest of the community around the idea -- I > haven't talked with them yet; only Dennis -- can we potentially get > consensus among the OGB members around renaming (and rechartering) the > existing community?
I remember going around on this a couple times in the past. This solution seems fine to me, and of the three my preference for naming would be Bring-up. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" FishWorks "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!"
