On Jan 28, 2008 5:14 PM, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > To me, as long as a project isn't doing something that is perceived or > > judged "harmful" and that project is happening "on opensolaris.org"; > > they are part of the commuinty. > > +1 > > > What it comes down to for me, is this: > > > > Would you rather see projects like Nexenta happen on OpenSolaris.org > > where they might be controversial, but are interacting directly with > > other community members, or would you rather they happen somewhere > > else where our community won't directly benefit? > > On OS.o. The fact that they are not on OS.o today is either an indication > that OS.o isn't working as it should, or that Nexenta has explicitly chosen > to not be part of the community. > > If the former, we /must/ fix OS.o ASAP. > > If the latter, we should not loose sleep over their choice to be independent. > > "If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they > don't they never were." > - Richard Bach > > Are we here to build a parts warehouse or to build a car? I agree, > if OS.o was just a parts warehouse of software components that could > be used by others as they build cars, that we would need to be > welcoming to all the various car companies, wherever they chose to > be headquartered. The problem is that I don't think we are (or want > to be) only a parts warehouse. With Indiana and the idea of a community > driven OpenSolaris binary distribution, we are sounding more and more like > we want to build our own cars.
I think we want to be both honestly, to draw out the analogy. In other words, developers should be encouraged to improve and assemble the different parts of OpenSolaris technology available to us and create new ones. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
