On 02/10/2007, Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison at sun.com> wrote: > Keith Wesolowski wrote: > > >> If you have complaints, I suggest it would be more productive to direct > >> them to the people who can actually do something about the underlying > >> issue. > > > > That depends on what you think the underlying issue is. I assume - > > correct me if I'm wrong - that your belief is that underresourcing > > within Sun is that issue. Unlike some people, I don't feel Sun has > > any obligation at all to resource this work. Assigning and paying two > > engineers to work on it is a gift, one for which we should all be > > thankful and appreciative. The real issue I had was lack of ability > > for anyone not employed by Sun to contribute; I'm hopeful that we'll > > see others getting R/W access and fixing some of these problems soon. > > Good luck on your quest, personally I think you'll find it has > relatively little to do with ability to contribute. My experience of > the opensolaris community is that, with a few stellar exceptions, it is > long on windbagging and short on contributing. Am I disillusioned? You > bet.
Considering the excruciatingly slow process of making contributions to some of the projects here, I don't see what would motivate folks. It seems relevant to me that the projects with the lowest barriers to contribution (such as the spec files repository that the desktop and sfw communities appear to share) appear to have the highest number of external contributions. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. " --Donald Knuth
