I took an AI at the last meeting but one to go back and see where we had got to with regards to defunct communities.
While there has been some discussion, and John Plocher has some bugs in bugzilla about detailed reorganizations of the community, I suspect it's easier to start over. I went through all the communities listed http://www.opensolaris.org/os/communities/#portal and made the following notes. Of 48 communities, 30 appear active; the remaining 18 are listed below. Note that I'm basing my interpretation on the state of the community web pages and mailing lists/fora. Academic and Research - Doesn't appear to be terribly active - But has recent CC grants Accessibility - low-level activity Appliances - low level activity - No CC grants Approachability - Forum link broken - Looks pretty dead to me; probably subsumed by other projects - All CC grants have expired BrandZ - really ought to be a zones project - All CC grants have expired Chinese Users - Forum link broken - Can't even find a mailing list - No CC grants - Looks pretty dead to me CAB - defunct archive Databases - low level activity - No CC grants Emerging Platforms - low level activity Fault Management - mid level activity - But new CC grants Games - low level activity - No CC grants HPC - low level activity - No CC grants MDB - mid level activity - Renewed all the CC grants this year Observability - low level activity - No CC grants Printing - mid level activity - All CC grants expired PowerPC - low level activity - Only one CC SVM - almost defunct - No CC grants UFS - low level activity (not all ufs related) - No CC grants There's a certain level of opinion in the above description. I apologise if I've mischaracterized any communities - but if I have then those communities need to be more obviously active. So as a possible summary, on which other may wish to comment. (Some of these communities I've had involvement with, others not.) Of the above, the following are possibly good Academic and Research Accessibility Fault Management MDB whereas the following look to be candidates for removal: Appliances (distribution related, oe JeOS?) Approachability (definitely) BrandZ (become a zones project?) Chinese Users (Internationalization or advocacy?) Databases (or get more active - or are the individual databases the right level?) Games HPC PowerPC (put into Emerging platforms?) Printing (can't think where else to put it) SVM (definitely) UFS (definitely) and the following need to get more active: Emerging Platforms (growth area, incorporating PowerPC?) Observability (structurally ought to be a community, but projects in that space like dtrace, mdb, fma, ... are strong) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
