On 4/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Bill Rushmore writes: > > I see no reason why the community needs yet another project. > > I hope we're not heading down a path where project creation can be > vetoed. The Project support on opensolaris.org should be available > for all ideas -- good, bad, and even duplicate ones. The existence of > a project doesn't dictate acceptance, and it is reasonable to point > out areas of overlap or foreseeable issues to new projects. That's > been done here and heard loud and clear. >
perhaps project approval is just too easy for Sun's pet projects. This project was okayed only by Sun employees, I didn't notice anyone outside of Sun giving an okay on this project, and at least one of the one of the two people that okayed the project had a vested interest in it, "(a volunteer on the SFW-Cteam in my copious free time)," Perhaps persons with a vested interest in a project should recuse themselfs from the approval proccess. I feel something as important as an OpenSource instalation standards needs broarder support than just a couple members of the project approving it. It will be too easy for this project to create a standard that doesn't meet the current needs of the community, that appears to have chosen sunfreeware and blastwave as standards allready. > Still, a project is simply a place to discuss and maybe even prototype > ideas in an open manner. If there isn't such a place, people will be > driven to other venues than opensolaris.org to collaborate on as-yet > unproven ideas. That seems like an unfortunate outcome worth avoiding. > this particular project seems to need more than a project offers, it really needs to be a community to support the numerous packages that this encompasses. > (Communities, of course, have stricter non-duplication rules.) > > To me, the initial goal of the Companion project is to get what Sun's been > doing for years out in the open. That way we can all discuss the goals of > each freeware-distribution mechansim objectively and see if they can be > reconciled in such a way that a single source base can meet the > requirements of the many constituents. I sincerely hope such reconciliation > of technical goals is possible. > it would of been better to engnlist parties that are involved to work together on this task, so that you would have broarder support. > All of that said, I'd still love to understand how it is that someone > can grab the source for all of blastwave and rebuild it on their > own machine. Is that possible? Planned? yes its planned, a subversion repository is being setup and will be ready for code to be added to it shortly. James Dickens uadmin.blogspot.com > > liane > (a volunteer on the SFW-Cteam in my copious free time) > -- > Liane Praza, Solaris Kernel Development > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://blogs.sun.com/lianep > > > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
