Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Please note, all materials related to the OpenSolaris Authentication >> and Authorisation project can now be found at >> http://auth.opensolaris.org/ > > So are you going to be operating a second project approval process > and site infrastructure for any project that doesn't want to deal > with the community and it's elected representatives or is this a > one-off end-run around the OGB that you can do because you have > special site administrative access?
The auth.opensolaris.org domain already existed, and was already in use by the auth project [1], so this isn't a new piece of site infrastructure, I was already using it for the project. Owing to the confusion around the Website GG/Project issue, it wasn't clear to me exactly what was going to happen to the Auth repository - I did ask for guidance from the OGB [3] but as yet I haven't received a definitive reply. In the interim I decided it was better to move the project to a stable location so as to cause the least disruption to the project, and the existing auth.opensolaris.org site was an obvious choice. I'd already had to export the repository to fix a history corruption [3], so the process was mostly complete in any case. I haven't precluded moving the repository again at some future date, but for now it seemed better to put it somewhere stable. I'd also like to point out that projects are not mandated to use any particular set of resources, they can choose to host their work wherever they wish. I'll also point out that the code is still open, it is still under the opensolaris.org TLD, the bug tracking system is still http://defect.opensolaris.org and contributors would still be welcomed with open arms. -- Alan Burlison -- [1] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/website-discuss/2007-October/004057.html [2] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-December/003744.html [3] http://auth.opensolaris.org/svn/revinfo.svn?revision=81&name=auth
