On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 06:10:31PM -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote: > Sun has staff now to handle most of what they do, but this doesn't > allow Sun to work with the community.
btw: there's a difference between "working with the community", and "meeting the needs of the community". you dont have to do #1 (in the sense of, "community members get write access"), to fulfil #2. There is a small, but important difference between, "people can see the codebase, and submit patch suggestions to full-time sun employees", and "this chunk o' code/binary is 100% maintained by a non-sun-employee" opensolaris.org is, as far as I understand it, using the first model. You seem to be pushing for the second model, for this common freeware base. I believe that the first model is best both for opensolaris.org "solaris" code, and also for any affiliated sun-blessed common set of freeware. But my point being, that would require dedicated sun employees for the task... which sun seems to be moving away from. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
