Martin Bochnig wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 7:11 AM, Liane Praza <liane.praza at sun.com> wrote: > >> There are many many pieces of software which integrate into ON but have >> their own communities/projects where design discussion, code review happens. >> (networking, ksh, dtrace, zfs, smf, zones, etc. etc. etc.) Please consider >> including those technology-specific or functionality-specific communities >> and projects in your calculation of openness of ON. >>
> I subscribe to more of the OS/Net child-community lists. > > Although I would like to see some better umbrella of strategic > TopToBottom discussions coordinating and governing the associated and > involved sub-communities. > > I bet such a thing exists inside Sun. How else can it be handled? > Maybe I just do not know enough about how everything is handled internally. It's project-specific aliases for initial discussion (pretty much all of which that I know of have already moved outside as already mentioned), cross-posting and pulling in proven experts for discussions that span groups, ARC for architectural coordination, and ON heads-up/putback messages for communication of integrations. I know of no other aliases for the type of discussion you're describing, and am certainly not subscribed to any internally. If there's a conspiracy to hide general ON discussion internally, nobody's let me in on it. :) It's actually cool to have on-discuss, as it's a forum we didn't have before OpenSolaris. But, we'll have to work to keep it general interest to all ON developers (IMHO, and work to keep it relatively low-traffic too) so that as many as possible stay subscribed. The only other thing I can think of is that there were internal lists for end-user questions about the development builds of each distribution (e.g. s10, nv. not ON-specific design), and now there's opensolaris equivalents (whether they be through opensolaris.org or not) for the new distributions. liane
