> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Carlson [mailto:james.d.carlson at sun.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 2:47 PM
> To: Ostrovsky, Boris
> Cc: ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org; Herman, George
> Subject: Re: [ogb-discuss] Creating a place for AMD-related work
>
> Ostrovsky, Boris writes:
> > We have been discussing a number of options:
> > - Treat each project as a separate effort and simply find an
> > appropriate community to sponsor it
> > - Create an AMD community which would (co)-sponsor various
> > projects.
> > - Create an umbrella AMD project and then have sub-projects
> > under it.
>
> Of those, I think the third option is probably the best one, much like
> this existing project:
>
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/intel-platform/
>
> I agree that the first option gives you a disjoint set of projects and
> likely poor coordination. My concern with the second option is that
> this seems too narrow to be a community.
>
> A better community for this area would be a "platform support"
> community. We've discussed this a few times in the past --
> particularly with the PPC work -- and now may be the best time to do
> this. Such a community would sponsor projects in the AMD, Intel,
> SPARC, and PPC areas, among other places, and would share information
> about platform-related issues.
>
> Renaming the existing PPC community and reorganizing the site would be
> a start.
What is the process for creating such an umbrella project? Or, rather,
how can a project create a sub-project? According to
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/policies/project-
instantiation.txt
a project can only be started by a community (or communities).
There is also a question of developing features that are common to
multiple platforms. If different platforms are interested in similar
functionality (but with separate architecture-specific low-level
drivers), how would creating common code be coordinated between
platform-based projects? With platform communities, there is a project
co-sponsored by them, with a single source tree.
Thanks.
-boris
