James Carlson wrote: > Roy T. Fielding writes: >> In accordance with Article VIII of the OpenSolaris Constitution, >> public votes are required for release plans and release decisions >> within any project governed by an OpenSolaris Community Group. >> A release is defined as any packaged distribution intended for >> people outside the originating community. > > There's an important line here that I think is getting muddied. > > Many projects release binaries intended for use outside of the project > team or community without (in my opinion) running afoul of those > rules. Those binaries represent "alpha test" or "demos" or "proof of > concept" or other such not-quite-release-quality efforts. The > Crossbow, Clearview, and xVM projects (to name a few obvious examples) > have done this for some time without trouble. > > The difficulty here is that we've got multiple people involved with > and on the periphery of this rather important project who have > different views of what the project is actually doing, and multiple > conflicting actions taken. I've talked privately with project team > members who tell me that this is just a "preview" -- a demonstration > -- and no more than that. It appears to me that someone who thinks it > amounts to something _other_ than a mere preview modified the > www.opensolaris.org web page with a new logo and text outlining the > entire community's future and offering these bits as something more > akin to a release. > > After looking through the materials, and this request for help, I find > that I'm more sympathetic to the project team's intentions and believe > that this request may prove to be a bit premature and the requested > action both insufficient to solve the problem and excessively broad in > its effects. > > If the www.opensolaris.org page can be repaired, and the appropriate > actions result from the OGB's draft request to Sun, then I'd be in > favor of either taking no action on this request or (at most) > delivering a formal reminder that releases, unlike demos, require > community votes.
As I mentioned on website-discuss I'll make whatever changes are agreed upon by the various projects involved (Indiana, Advocacy) along with any (possible) OGB involvement. While I realize this is a controversial issue and understand that 'rolling things back' might damper some the frustration, I don't want to provide alternate designs until there is clear agreement from all invested parties on the proposed changes. Derek > > Let's try to get this right before reaching for stronger measures. > -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division
