On 02/11/2007, Brandorr <brandorr at opensolaris.org> wrote: > On 11/2/07, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote: > > On 02/11/2007, Roy T. Fielding <fielding at gbiv.com> wrote: > > > On Nov 2, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Glynn Foster wrote: > > > > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > > >> 1) Inform all three of Indiana's sponsoring communities about the > > > >> release > > > >> plans requirement of the constitution. > > > > > > > > Awesome, yet another way of slowing down getting software to our > > > > users. Anything > > > > else we can do to get in the way? > > > > > > If you had initiated the project within a community that was scoped > > > for building a distribution, then that decision would have been made > > > already and by the very same people who did the work to produce the > > > software. > > > > > > I told you this at the time the project was proposed, and you ignored > > > it to satisfy the immediate desire of the internal marketing team > > > at Sun. Don't blame anyone else for these problems -- they are > > > entirely manufactured by your refusal to accept community input from > > > day one, and they will continue until the organization reflects the > > > reality of how you intend to govern this project (one way or another). > > > > Sorry, but that's wrong. There is currently nothing in the > > constitution that stipulates that projects must live under a certain > > community. Your claim otherwise is surprising given you drafted the > > constitution. > > Shawn go read the glossary. He isn't talking about a CG (Community > Group). He is talking about a community as in the "OpenSolaris > community". (Which is not a distro building community), vs. the > "Debian Community", which was a community scoped and formed around > building a distro called GNU/Linux. (Like Slackware).
Sorry; I don't agree with your interpretation. > Basically Ian is trying to name a distro with the name of an existing > community, vs naming a community after the name of the distro they are > building. Sorry, I don't agree. The community may have the name, but it does not hold any rights to it nor exclusive usage of it. There already distributions using the name in other ways; shall I accuse them of attempting to represent us? -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
