On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:34:57PM -0500, Mark Sweeney wrote: > > I want to host a community which already exists, the 'CIFS community', > on the OpenSolaris website. I want to do this since we have several > implementations that work on Solaris of CIFS already and especially > since there is a native OpenSolaris client coming out, which has been > wanted for some time. Going to google and typing 'CIFS community' as > a search will show you some results of where the CIFS community > members lurk for other operating systems or for specific > cross-platform implementations. > > If ZFS, and indeed, all the FS's may migrate to being projects in a > Filesystems community at some point then that's fine. Until then, I > would prefer to keep things consistent and organized, and we can move > them all together. A lack of consistency in organization would bother > me.
I have no qualms about creating a CIFS community, and have no strong opinion on the overall direction of this request. While there may be dozens of other reasons for creating a community over a project, I was only pointing out that the above, specific, rationale is broken and inadequate. Do not use "lack of consistency" as justification for making the wrong choice. Stephen gave precise criteria for establishing a community versus a project. Don't use existing communities as justification, since by nature they did not have to address these questions at the time they were created. "Because ZFS did it" or "it would be inconsistent with UFS" are not valid reasons, nor should the establishment of a Filesystem Community be a prerequesite for making a CIFS project. - Eric -- Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
