Richard Lowe wrote: >> The trend is to train external developers to the SMI development >> methodology (code review, ARC, C-Team, etc) such that eventually non-SMI >> engineers will be just as qualified to utilize the development process >> as trained internal engineers. The difference then is that external >> engineers are unpaid but have the ability to work on what they choose >> rather than what their manager tells them to. Thats beyond what most >> external developers want to deal with and is extremely frustrating. Am >> I wrong in this? >> > > I think I must be misreading this. > > The way I'm reading it, you suggest that people either don't or > shouldn't care if their code integrates into an opensolaris gate (I > think you meant opensolaris, not nevada?). You also suggest that the > process of integrating code into a opensolaris gate is onerous. > > Where exactly does this code go, at that point? >
Into the community. :) Let me put this another way... is the only engineering related reason to participate in the OpenSolaris community to putback to the ON gate? benr.
