On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 03:52:17PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Then change the topic to "Community Software for Solaris" and continue. > > After all, the objective is to deliver a solution to the Solaris user > and the Solaris customer. Possibly even each other. > > That was always the idea from the beginning.
We tried forming that community and the CAB members did not agree to it. You may recall that community's title was proposed as the far more neutral "Packaged Software." Perhaps that too was poorly chosen, in that it encouraged people to confuse it with the Packaging community. I wholeheartedly agree that melding the larger discussion with the release of the Companion software is suboptimal, but as Al pointed out, that's the way they've decided the system will work. If you think they should revisit that decision, cab-discuss is the place. I should also mention that Solaris customers are in important, but not the only, target audience. This is an OpenSolaris project - and ought to have been an OpenSolaris community - because its scope extends beyond the boundary of the Solaris product. If the project name is your sole objection to the existence of the project or to a collaborative effort that would be inclusive of Blastwave, I'm more than willing to change it. Or to propose a second project (as a stand-in for the originally proposed community) and relegate the existing one solely to providing the source to the existing Companion consolidation. Suggestions? -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" Solaris Kernel Team "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
