Stephen Lau wrote: > Ashley Saulsbury wrote: > >> Brandorr wrote: >> >>> Tony, >>> >>> From my understanding, projects can be promoted to communities, but >>> communities can not be demoted to projects. >>> >>> That being the case, you might consider a third approach to getting >>> up and runnning quickly. Seek approval from the Xen community for a >>> new project "ldom". This is the fastest path to getting up and >>> running quickly, as it only involves approval at the CG level. At a >>> latter date, ldom could be promoted to a full community, or moved >>> into the virtualization community as a project (or set of projects). >> >> >> Our request is for full community status. >> >> At some future date if the Xen and Zones communities agree we can work >> towards merging to a single virtualization community. >> >> Right now we have shipping product we want to open for community >> involvement - that's not the Xen community or the Zones community. > > > Why not open a Virtualisation Community and create an LDoms project > endorsed by the community?
Precisely because it *wont be* the open solaris virtualization community without Xen and Zones being a part. I don't have a problem with Zones and Xen being relegated to being projects ... if you the board are interested in persuing that route perhaps you could / should raise that with them. In the mean time equitable solution is to create an LDoms community with equal standing to Xen and Zones ... cheers, ash. > > cheers, > steve >
