Dear OS/Net crowd, I'm on this alias for over 2 months now.
I signed up after having found good starting points at http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/ and http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/flag-days/ . Over time I noticed, that - very much unlike lists like caiman-discuss or xwin-discuss - no actual development communication is taking place here. Then you shouldn't wonder, that only few are seriously joining you (or: able to join you). You guys not only get all training for free, but you also discuss everything, day in and day out. Unfortunately behind your Firewalls. I like what Steven Lau has written in his blog a while ago: http://whacked.net/2009/01/15/dear-sun-learn-to-trust-your-own-community/ Actually what is (not) going on here on this list (in contrast to caiman, xwin and a small good selection of others) is fraud (towards yourself and towards world). Sure: The hg, commit logs, webrefs, cr's, ARC's are online. But without moderation and with most of the developer's communication being held behind closed doors it is not easy to participate. I do this with a small bit: I improve fast-boot by adding an option to it. More later. First let me discuss and develop it BEHIND MY CLOSED DOORS. 2 days ago a very smart guy of you wrote me a polotical non-technical message where he complained about mailing lists being too political and not technical enough. Isn't that funny? What did he do to improve the situation? Nasdorovje, -- %martin bochnig
