Would it be possible to develop some kind of scoring of outside contributors (LOC broken down by kernel/driver/libs/apps and new vs bugfixes, say)? That might generate some friendly competition. Further, if that were done in the right way, it could be joined (perhaps by some non-Sun site and with a disclaimer) to something the contributors could set if they were willing to be contacted for independent contract work. That way, if some 3rd party wanted to pay for community support (say to add a new driver), they'd have some measure of who had participated in an applicable sort of way.
I'm sure the lawyers would have a field day with this. Still, all that's really involved is the scoring (the formula for which should be open), the disclaimer (including one as to the accuracy of the scoring as well as "does not endorse..."), and the connection to the actual indication who wanted to be available for such work. There ought to be some way to divide that up that makes everyone happy. More broadly, a separate site that was a place where independent OpenSolaris contributors and potential employers could match up their availability/abilities and needs might do something to bring in some outside support. One might hope most of it would be open, but if someone was willing, I don't see that having someone develop eg a video or WiFi driver under NDA would be a big deal as long as the binaries could be freely distributed. Those things might do much to provide a mechanism for getting a lot more done, especially in terms of drivers, support for commercial apps being ported to Solaris, etc. just a thought... This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
