Hi
I apologize if this comes across as slightly flippant, but I'm not even
sure where to even go to get these things resolved/looked at.
1) The general community attitude towards new members in #opensolaris in
irc is bad on a regular/daily basis There is one individual @Sun in
particular who probably needs some mentoring or a corrective talk. This
could possibly could be resolved by a code of conduct policy on a wiki
somewhere. I've given it some thought, but haven't had a chance to make
a draft. (Normally, /trolls/ are kicked, but currently only @Sun people
are given OP privileges to resolve such matters.) I have logs, other
community members willing to back this and records if anyone wants to
look into this further. (Or even better I can make a list of additional
!= @Sun community members who are quite active in the channel and
responsible.)
2) dclarke posted back in September [1] about OpenSolaris being more of
a community effort. So taking a look at the onnv-notify bug fixes for
November [2] would you say that this is working very well? If I had to
guess based on loose observation I would say this is probably a
combination of three things.
a) Technical issues which for various reasons deters people from
contributing.
b) Lack of a real community to give people != @Sun something to be a
part of
c) Most devs I've talked with perceive the policy and procedure for
even trivial patches to be too high. (Whether this is truly the core or
most important reason I'm not unsure.)
Glynn Foster has summed up in a single line what I consider to be the
most true statement in free open source.
"Get. Use. Learn. Love. Spread. Only then, in my opinion, can we even
think about Contribute?? [3]
(Additional thanks to Ian Murdock for blogging about it [4])
So with this in mind where is the point of failure? [5]
Humbly,
Christopher Bergstrom
[1]
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2008-September/006086.html
[2]
http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/onnv-notify/2008-November/thread.html
[3]
http://blogs.gnome.org/gman/2008/03/16/thoughts-on-a-probable-opensolariscom/
[4] http://ianmurdock.com/
[5] In fairness I could see part of my argument as partially wrong
because I'm sure people @Intel / @Nvidia are contributing in some form,
but then it's hard to tell because the gate is probably only active
behind SWAN or another corporate firewall.
