On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 13:42 -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > Names are very important.
Absolutely. > Pick a new one that properly communicates this release's status as an > experimental prototype produced by a subset of the community without > prior broad review, and all will be well. > > To me, at least, "Preview" has a strong connotation of "almost done". Hmmmm, I look at it as work in progress. The web page clearly indicates that another preview is coming, so almost done may be a bit strong. How about a consolidation of ideas that the project team is thinking about, in a state suitable for public viewing ? > The current name is already causing confusion -- on one sun-internal > list someone seemed to think it was baked enough that it could go -- in > its current form -- on ruggedized mil-spec laptops for mission-critical > applications. well that's an issue :) but has nothing to do with the preview release. > It's a very promising start but parts of it are held together with duct > tape and bailing wire and it's not ready for prime time. And as a preview, I wouldn't expect much more. I've seen Fedora previews that were way less polished, and that's after the community had already gone through several releases. I will say that I got more than I expected on first boot, and that was cool. > > I'm sorry, but I just don't get it. Not in the least bit. > > It's all about the name. Back away from "OpenSolaris Developer Preview" > and this nightmare will end. Most respectfully disagree. While I respect and admire a lot of the passion shown in some of these threads, the community has to have a distribution with easy association. and then we have to work hard to get OpenSolaris from noun to adjective. bob
