Roy> Right now, Sun has only exposed the "done" gate of OpenSolaris, which is Roy> equivalent to throwing code over the wall. The reason I talk about that Roy> wall is because one of the primary goals of the governance proposal is Roy> to avoid a situation like that of Darwin, wherein the community is only Roy> allowed on the periphery and releases are tossed over the wall based on Roy> internal decisions.
Speaking for myself, avoiding the Darwin "throw it over the wall" approach is a primary goal as well. I think most if not all of the other Sun people in this community share that goal. Roy> ... I think you should be looking more closely at the FreeBSD and Apache Roy> styles of development, which have successfully integrated strong peer Roy> review and stable interface revisions in the same manner as Sun but Roy> *with* true community collaboration. I think you will find that such Roy> communities closely match the values held by Sun engineering and yet are Roy> able to collaborate as equals. I think continued use of teamware as Roy> the integration mechanism will prevent us from building a collaborative Roy> community. The use of Teamware is not written in stone AFAIK. You raise some good points above, which I am sure will be considered as we (the entire community, not just Sun people) look at what SCM tool(s) to use. -- John _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
