This is not a governance issue, take it off of ogb-discuss. John Plocher wrote: > [trimmed off os-discuss, probably should also trim off ogb-discuss] > > Joerg Schilling wrote: > >> It is just another chance to verify that there is collaboration on >> OpenSolaris >> and not just ignorant domination from Sun..... >> >> Do we have an OpenSolaris community or is this just a fake? >> >> The real compare is 20 years older and I did _warn_ _before_ the name >> appeared >> in /usr/bin. For this reason, this is an important bug in Solaris Express. >> > > Where is the ARC case that proposed that OpenSolaris adopt your compare? > When did you integrate your "compare" into the source tree(s) maintained on > OpenSolaris.org? Have you taken your (fantastic!) work on Schillix and > made it part of what we are doing here in OS.o-land? Have you figured out > how to get others to follow your lead? > > From my perspective, you (still) have an independent distro that harvested > the work done here on OS.o and added your own infrastructure, tools and > missing parts - and didn't manage to get the work done to merge those > changes and additions back into any OS.o code base(s). > > One of the threads in the trademark discussion revolved around the > assertion that OpenSolaris *is* the source code found in the consolidations > and repositories hosted on OS.o. In a very real sense, if your source > isn't here, your project/product isn't part of OpenSolaris. > > Because you have not (yet?) managed to do this, your distro is slowly > diverging from the ongoing work being done on OS.o; worse, the rest of OS.o > has been forced to reinvent much of your work just to get a stand-alone, > self-hosted distro off the ground. > > One of the joys of doing your own distro is that you don't need to interact > with anyone else before you do your own thing; one of the downsides is that, > because you are independent, other people don't do things your way. You > can't really have it both ways. > > -John > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss >
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