Hey Glynn, a New Zealander, awesome, I was there about a year and a half ago, very beautiful country. I visited the glow worm caves, parachuted, went up the sky tower at Aukland, saw the fumaroles at Rotorua and so on. :)
Anyhow... in response to your post: Actually, I am convinced about the advantages of open source development, it was one of the primary reasons I joined Sun; I thought the fact that my work would be released would be cool. I'm looking forward to community submissions once we have something going, that's why I am trying to set up a community!!! :) The CIFS dev team has done a lot of work and once we get the base functionality out and published as open source, any work submitted to build the advanced features would be greatly appreciated. I'll gladly volunteer to mentor a team of interested developers if they want to add a certain feature. I'm not sure what you mean by an 'open development process.' If anyone in the OpenSolaris community wants to build something they can choose their team and how best to manage it, and we have several major open source contributors involved in this project, (I have mentioned Boris Popov at the top of this thread), it's just that we are doing the solaris kernel integration work in house. I'd like to understand what you mean, however, so if you can post something or point me to a document online, that'd be much appreciated. In terms of requiring a senior developer, planning to complete a project requires completing certain tasks and being staffed to match up the personnel's skills with the task difficulty. The design and code work we are doing is quite a complex kernel to kernel port and would require someone senior. I agree that community building/development is part of yearly performance goals and metrics. It's part of yours too, and I'm part of the OpenSolaris community. You probably don't realize this, but personal attacks on someone's character are not encouraged on these forums, that is defamatory, and contrary to the "Terms of Use" clause 3. If you have an issue with someone's attitude or want to insinuate secondary motives I would recommend contacting the person via email to helpfully handle or escalating to forum moderators or sun management. I hope I've answered any questions or concerns adequately that have come forth about this community proposal. If not, I encourage people to ask me questions and I will do my best to answer. Mark Sweeney _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
