Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> > What is the point of having so many CC's
Because they have many many contributers doing core things like running
local user groups,
generating interest in OpenSolaris and addressing the harder "developer
and ISV adoption
problems"? Just because they are not writing network drivers does not
mean they are any
less of a contributer...
Stepping back a bit:
Take a look at any large, successful open source project out there -
php, wordpress,
ruby-on-rails, thunderbird, ... They ALL expose multiple personalities
to the world,
each focused on a different part of the user experience:
1) Download it and try it, talk with others who are trying it
2) Customize it and make it your own
3) Develop customizations (skins, modules...) for others to use, and
4) Develop the component itself.
OpenSolaris-core (desktop, ON, storage, ARC...) seems focused mostly on
#4.
User groups seem aimed at #1, with overlap into 2,3 and even 4. SFW and
the new IPS/Repositories are building out 2 and 3 - and yet the web site
and
community expectations are optimized for 4. Topping it all off, the
people in
each of these roles naturally tend to react badly if forced into a
different role.
Rather than forcing everyone into an one-size-fits-all package, maybe it
is time,
as Brandorr and Keith suggested, to think about spinning apart the
developer and
user parts of this community into their own worlds - i.e., take 'most
everything
related to developing the code (including the charter and constitution?)
and move
it to its own isolated world under "developer.opensolaris.org", and
create a whole
new world under users.opensolaris.org for a binary distro, user groups,
marketing
and adoption efforts, etc. Maybe that is the difference between
opensolaris.org
and opensolaris.com...
-John
