On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 [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.
Agreed.
> 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.
Agreed.
> (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.
+1
> 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?
>
> liane
> (a volunteer on the SFW-Cteam in my copious free time)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Alert! Alert! Massive outbreak of sarcasm detected! Possibly a 9 on the
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Regards,
Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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