On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 09:16, Darren J Moffat wrote: > TJ Yang wrote: > > Current name: > > > > Packaging, Patching, and Distribution Mgmt Community > > > > Proposed name: > > Application mgnt and Distributions Community > > > > Shorter and general enough to cover packaing,patching and opensolaris > > distributions. > > That actually means something completely different to me. > ... > > Why not just call this "Install" if we are going for a generic > name.
I've been wondering about this proposal for a while, and the proposed community - certainly in terms of the original proposal back on Jan 31st - doesn't work for me. Which is worrying, because - being a sysadmin - the whole packaging, patching, and installation process is important to me and something I want to see done well. The focus seems to be on "how to put together a distribution using Solaris packages". While this information needs to be available it's largely a set of existing rules that need to be published rather than a community, and it's pretty specific to the Solaris package tools. What about distributions that choose to use other packaging systems? They don't seem to fit in naturally. So how to broaden the scope to include all distributions and their installation management schemes? The other component of the proposal is to create a home for the Solaris packaging tools. Yes, I want these tools, and they need a home, but they strike me as being closer to a project that a community. What I think i'm muddle-headedly staggering towards is a setup with a broader "Install" community and a narrower "Solaris Package Software" project. Or maybe a "Distributions" community, with an even broader scope, with the publishing of the Solaris distribution rules and the SVR4 software tools being projects underneath that. -- -Peter Tribble L.I.S., University of Hertfordshire - http://www.herts.ac.uk/ http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
