Thanks for the support Eric! I believe we can make the right choice and remain organized and consistent at the same time. I also believe the right choice is a community for my needs, according to Stephen's criteria which I used in my assessment.
I never intended to justify a decision due to other past decisions, I meant to say that organization is a good justification. I hope this clears up any misunderstanding. Mark Sweeney ----- Original Message ----- From: Eric Schrock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thursday, January 19, 2006 4:49 pm Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Re: CIFS group creation request. To: Mark Sweeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > 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 > FilesystemCommunity 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
