On Wed, 2 Nov 2005, Mac wrote: > James Dickens wrote: > > > perhaps i'm tired... but that just comes off as LAME!.... > > > > how does that come off as "fully functional" ... this is opensource > > software... no need for secrets this started out as an opensource > > project, no hidden closed sourced secrets, guess i will be skipping > > this project, untill they are really open. > > We wanted to get as much feedbacks about the layout, > contents, usability and features of the web portal > before opening it up fully to the public (scheduled > for mid-November, barring any unforeseen circumstances). > > There are things like forums, mailing list, blogs, > web-based Debian repository browser, etc. which need > to be tested during this pilot period. We would be > more than happy to open it for the public now, but > we are aiming for a controlled test environment which > would be hard to achieve in such a case. > > After all, everything there is powered by our stuffs, > and we have not had the necessary resources to make > sure that everything is well oiled. We'd be thrilled > to have you and others test that for us. > > We'll be providing ISO images of our LiveCD and InstallCD > in the upcoming days (hopefully sooner rather than later) > via the web portal. > > -- > Mac
My 2 cents: I think it's too early to judge this project. In other words, I think they deserve the "benefit of the doubt" at this point because they say the pilot will be short and because they apparently have put a lot of original work into it. Eric _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
