Stephen Lau wrote:
> - 'X Window System' endorsed by Desktop
Speaking as the de-facto leader of the X Community, X is a community
solely because it was one of the ones created for the launch, when
projects did not yet exist in the web application.
Long term, X is a Consolidation. Whether it should be a Project or
a Community depends on the as yet undecided mappings of the Consolidations
and C-Teams to governance structures.
Internally, we've long had a Desktop C-Team that oversaw the Solaris desktop
consolidations, including X, JDS, and the non-OpenSolaris CDE & OpenWindows.
They were separate consolidations for technical reasons (different build
structures, and in the past too much code to build all at once and still
be able to have nightly builds) and management reasons (for about half of
my tenure in the Desktop groups, X & JDS/CDE have been under very different
management chains, and the other half we've been together - every year or
two one of us gets re-orged), but since so many of the same people were
involved in all of them (we shared release engineering, program management,
QA, management, and sustaining teams at different times), it was easier to
just meet as one body instead of 4 meetings of mostly the same people.
(And of course, X has stayed while OpenWindows, CDE, and GNOME have come
and/or gone around it, and is likely to stay no matter what future desktop
changes may come.)
If we decided C-Teams were Community bodies, and the Desktop C-Team was
mapped to the Desktop Community, with JDS & X projects representing the
consolidations, that would make sense to me.
As an OGB member, I wonder if making any change to the status of Communities
or Projects that represent Consolidations should be deferred until that issue
is settled.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
